Centre for Corporate Governance & Sustainability and Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs jointly host workshop on, ‘Effective Risk Governance & Boards’ on 23-24 January
Sessions include discussions on cyber threats, and how Boards and organizations need to develop protection strategies to counter the same
27 January, 2025, Bengaluru: The Centre for Corporate Governance and Sustainability (CCGS), in association with the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA), hosted a two-day workshop on, ‘Effective Risk Governance & Boards’, on 23 and 24 January 2025, at the IIM Bangalore campus. The programme was attended by CEOs, CFOs, CXOs and Independent Directors, from both public and private sectors.
The workshop provided a deep, insightful, informative and interactive learning experience to the participants on the nature of various cyber threats, and how such threats have become a primary concern and an important topic for Boards to engage with proactively since they pose a credible risk to the reputation, financial health and overall sustainability of any organization. The sessions also covered the ways and measures organizations need to adopt to develop protection strategies.
The two-day workshop covered a wide range of topics on cyber risk governance, including, Evolving Trends in Risk Governance & Role of Boards; Digital Stewardship: Governing Cyber Security Risks; Challenges of Cyber Risks & Developing Organizational Resilience; How do Board Members Prepare and Deal with Cyberattacks?; Challenges in Tech Transformation - Understanding IP & Data Privacy Risks; Business Model and Cyber Security Vulnerability; Cyber Security Roles & Responsibilities for Boards, and Audit Renaissance: Deploying Cyber and Digital Security Measures.
The sessions were conducted by Prof. Padmini Srinivasan, Chairperson, Centre for Corporate Governance & Sustainability and faculty of the Finance & Accounting area, IIM Bangalore; Dr. Niraj Gupta, Head, School of Corporate Governance & Public Policy, IICA; Prof. S Raghunath, Chairman, The South Asia Board, Academy of International Business; Manasi Jain, Principal Architect, CXO Cyber Advisor, Cisco; Raghunath Kulkarni, Principal Engineer, Customer Delivery and Engineering, Cisco Systems; Hasit Kaji, Former Chief Digital and Information Officer, Tata Power Company Ltd; Pradeep Kumar, Senior Security Solutions Architect, Cisco India; Dinesh Narayan, Global CIO, TVS Supply Chain Solutions Ltd; Vidhi Rastogi, Director, Customer Experience, Security & Enterprise Networking, Cisco, and Ashish Dagar, Security Architect, Cisco.