Executive workshop
A 45-minute, in-person session for executives on the human side of cyber risk, with a live deepfake demonstration: protecting your business, and protecting yourself and your family online.
What it is
Security awareness training for staff is usually delivered online to the whole workforce. Executive training is different because it is built around the decisions only leaders make: approving payments, setting budgets, signing off policy, and answering to customers and regulators when something goes wrong.
The Verizon 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report found that around 60% of breaches involved a human element, and the people with the most authority carry the most risk.
What we cover
Attackers do not separate your work life from your home life, so we do not either. Every risk we cover comes with a plain-English explanation and what to do about it.
How phishing, CEO fraud, impersonation and social engineering target executives, and the warning signs that are easy to miss, from urgent payment requests to a travelling boss who asks you to keep a transaction confidential.
Practical governance, culture and training choices that turn your people from the biggest vulnerability into the strongest defence, including dual authorisation for payments and call-backs on known numbers.
See what is already out there about you, from leaked email addresses and phone numbers to your home address, and how attackers combine it with your LinkedIn profile and media appearances.
Simple habits for your personal accounts, devices and home network that protect you and your family, and close the back door into your business.
How it runs
Each workshop lasts 45 minutes: a 30-minute workshop followed by 15 minutes of open Q&A. No technical knowledge is needed.
An urgent Teams call from your CFO and two colleagues asks you to approve a transfer before a deal closes. The faces and voices are familiar. What would you do?
How financial approvals, board access and a public profile make senior leaders the highest-value targets in any organisation.
A live demonstration of AI voice and video cloning, showing how convincing an impersonation can be and what to look for.
Reputational damage, personal liability, identity theft and fraud. Why this is a risk to you as an individual, not just an IT problem.
The small number of proven controls that stop most real-world attacks, for your organisation and for your personal accounts, devices and home.
A summary of the themes that matter most, connecting personal risk to business consequence.
An open floor for your leadership team's questions, and one clear next step for protecting your organisation.
Who it is for
Cyber security is a leadership decision, not just an IT one. This workshop is for the people who set budgets, sign off policy and answer to regulators when something goes wrong. It works best with the whole leadership team in the room.
Why HackRisk
Each workshop is built on the experience of CyberLab's CREST and CHECK-accredited security team, so what your leaders see reflects how real attacks are carried out today.
Rather than describing AI impersonation, we show it. Seeing a convincing clone in real time is what changes how leaders verify urgent requests.
We cover the risks to your organisation and to you personally, including your digital footprint, personal accounts and family, because attackers target both.
No technical knowledge needed and no jargon. The workshop is designed for boards and the C-suite, focused on the decisions only leaders make.
In 45 minutes your team leaves with practical, prioritised steps they can put in place the same day, for the business and at home.
Every session includes onboarding to the HackRisk platform, so leaders can keep monitoring their exposure long after the workshop ends.
Compare
Three different jobs. If you want everyday habits across the whole workforce, you want security awareness training; this workshop is for the people attackers impersonate.
| This workshop | Tabletop exercise | Awareness training | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Objective | Show leaders how attackers target them personally and professionally, and how to stop it. | Test how the organisation responds to a simulated cyber incident. | Build secure everyday behaviour across the whole workforce. |
| Who attends | Boards, C-suite and senior leaders. | Leadership, IT, communications and incident response teams. | All staff. |
| Focus | CEO fraud, deepfakes, impersonation and leaders' personal digital exposure. | Incident response plans, roles, escalation and decision-making under pressure. | Phishing, passwords, data handling and reporting. |
| Format | In person, with a live deepfake demonstration. | Facilitated, scenario-based simulation. | Typically online modules and phishing simulations. |
| Duration | 45 minutes (30 minutes plus 15 minutes of Q&A). | A longer, structured session based on your scenario. | Ongoing, short modules throughout the year. |
| Outcome | Same-day actions for the business and at home, plus a shared language for cyber decisions. | Findings on gaps in your response plan and recommended improvements. | Measurable improvement in staff behaviour and reporting. |
A focused session that helps senior leaders understand why they are the most valuable targets in their organisation, and how to reduce that risk. It covers the attacks aimed at executives, such as CEO fraud, impersonation and AI-generated deepfakes, as well as the personal online exposure attackers use to reach them.
Chief executives, finance directors, board members, non-executive directors, operations leads, heads of IT and business owners. It works best with the whole leadership team in the room, because the defences that matter, such as dual authorisation and call-backs, only work when everyone uses them.
45 minutes, delivered in person at your offices: a 30-minute workshop followed by 15 minutes of open Q&A. It is a conversation rather than a presentation, and no technical knowledge is needed.
£2,000 per session for your whole leadership team. Every workshop is tailored to your sector and the people in the room, so your leaders hear about the threats most relevant to them.
We show, live, how AI can clone a senior leader's face and voice from publicly available material, and put it in context with real cases such as the 2024 Arup fraud, where an employee transferred around £20 million after a video call in which every other participant was a deepfake. Where the demonstration uses a member of your team, we agree it and obtain their written consent in advance.
Because of what they can do and what is known about them. Executives approve payments, set policy and carry authority that attackers impersonate, and their public profiles, from LinkedIn to media appearances, hand attackers the material to do it convincingly.
Staff awareness training is usually delivered online to the whole workforce and builds everyday habits. Executive training is built around the decisions only leaders make: approving payments, setting budgets, signing off policy, and answering to customers and regulators when something goes wrong.
HackRisk is CyberLab's human cyber risk platform. It scans your external attack surface, scores what it finds as a HackRisk Score, and delivers a board-ready report with remediation advice. The workshop is part of the same programme, and every session includes onboarding to the platform.
Your team leaves with prioritised next steps they can act on the same day. We also onboard you to the HackRisk platform so you can see and track your organisation's exposure, and you can start with a free report at any time.
Book your workshop
Each workshop is 45 minutes, delivered in person, and costs £2,000 per session, tailored to your sector and the people in the room. Tell us the days that could work and we will be in touch within one working day.
It takes a minute: your name, work email, company and up to five weekdays that could work.
