SIRO/IAO Training

Senior Information Risk Owner (SIRO) Training

Our one-day SIRO training course is specifically designed for board members, senior executives, and key decision-makers. It equips leaders with the essential knowledge and practical skills to effectively oversee and manage information and cyber risks within their organisations.

A strong security culture is a critical success factor in building cyber resilience. This course helps senior leaders embed cyber security best practices into their organisation’s operations and governance. While executives don’t need to be technical experts, they must be confident in discussing cyber security with their teams and know which critical questions to ask to protect the business.

Benefits of Security Awareness at Senior Management Level:

  • Better Strategic Decision-Making: Informed leaders can assess cyber risks alongside commercial risks, leading to more balanced, risk-aware decisions.
  • Improved Incident Preparedness: Senior leaders who understand their security responsibilities can lead swift, coordinated responses to cyber incidents, reducing potential impact.
  • Enhanced Organisational Resilience: Leadership buy-in drives a security-conscious culture that strengthens defences across the organisation.
  • Regulatory Confidence: Security-aware executives can demonstrate accountability and good governance to regulators, customers, and stakeholders.
  • Stronger Stakeholder Trust: A visible, proactive approach to cyber security from senior leadership builds confidence with clients, partners, and investors.

The course covers:

  • Introduction to cyber security
  • Senior Information Risk Owner role and responsibilities
  • Supporting roles and responsibilities across the organisation
  • Key questions senior leaders should ask to challenge and support their teams
  • Building strong governance for cyber and information security
  • Data handling and the law, including GDPR and regulatory obligations
  • Identifying, assessing, and managing cyber risks specific to your organisation
  • Strengthening cyber resilience to safeguard business continuity

Delivery:

Courses are delivered remotely via Microsoft Teams for convenience and accessibility.

For more information or to book a place, please contact training@aristi.co.uk

IAO Training

Information Asset Owners (IAO) play a key role in the risk management process and therefore need to understand their responsibilities to enable them to be effective.

Our half day IAO training workshops are designed for groups of IAOs to learn about the role and share knowledge with fellow IAOs. These workshops are often delivered on site as IAOs tend to be senior managers and taking a number of senior people out of the organisation for a day is not always practical.

The course covers:

  • Definition of an IAO
  • IAO role responsibilities and how this meets the requirements of the GDPR
  • Key questions an IAO should be able to answer
  • Risk management for IAOs
  • Data handling and Classification

Courses are delivered remotely over Microsoft Teams.

For more information or to book a place, please contact training@aristi.co.uk