“Cyberspace is an essential part of our daily lives and has brought diversification to our life and businesses. Effective protection of cyber threats requires preparation. And preparation means knowledge, skills, training, and exercising”, said Toomas Danneberg, Vice-Rector for External Relations and Business Development and Head of the Management in Digital Society MBA program at EBS after participating as an observer in the Strategic Decision Making Exercise on Hybrid/Cyber Threats in Vienna.
The exercise was carried out in cooperation with the Defense Ministry of Austria, the European Defense Agency, and other public and private sector organizations in order to help authorities and organizations investigate potential cyber threat scenarios in a simulation exercise. Altogether, observers from 21 countries participated, including representatives of EBS and our partner in Vienna, the WU Executive Academy.
As part of the Management in Digital Society program, EBS runs a similar cyber exercise and cyber hygiene course in collaboration with Estonian cyber security companies BHC Laboratory and CybExer Technologies in a mutual effort to increase the capability of future leaders to prevent increasingly severe cyber threats.
“The role of a university is to keep up to date, and to be a step ahead of what is happening in the business sector. Today, the leaders of organizations and companies need to have knowledge and practical experience not only in management and leadership, but also in technologies, and their influence on business operations”, Danneberg says. “Cyber security in business has been a distant, complicated, and technical topic, which is why businesses are now sensing their vulnerability. Cyber security in business is one of the strategic areas of modern companies, without which it is not possible to survive in an increasingly digitalized world. Our duty is to give leaders the knowledge and experience they need, and we are happy to say that we are able to achieve this with internationally recognized partners from Estonia“.