LDR514: Security Strategic Planning, Policy, and Leadership - Live Online
Security leaders are measured on two things at once: whether the program actually reduces risk, and whether the rest of the business believes it does. LDR514 is built for the distance between those two.
Over five days of live, virtual instruction, you produce the artifacts the job demands. A strategic plan tied to what the business is trying to accomplish. A roadmap backed by an honest gap analysis. A business case that holds up in budget season. Policy written to fit your organization's culture instead of fighting it. Plus, an executive presentation assembled from your own work rather than a template.
During the week, you'll work through:
- 32 hands-on exercises
- 20 Cyber42 leadership simulation challenges
- Nine scenarios drawn from real organizations
- Three business case studies
- A capstone strategic planning workshop.
Harvard Business School case studies anchor the leadership sections, which cover situational leadership, delegation, performance conversations, and leading teams through change.
AI is Covered
Course author and SANS Fellow Frank Kim refreshed LDR514 for 2026 with expanded coverage of AI, strategic planning, and enterprise risk leadership, including a lab on writing AI security policy.
Who Should Take This Course?
It is best suited for security managers moving toward a director or CISO seat, program owners responsible for policy, and technical leaders who have been asked to brief the board and want something more useful than a slide of vulnerability counts.
