Hacking the expertise of a cybersecurity specialist – how digitally safe are we really?

Comprehensively existing in a digital world, the professional is exposed to digital risk now more than ever before. Accounting, tax, finance, and business professionals alike are required to exercise due care and inform themselves about not only the nature of such risks, but also the ways in which they can mitigate them successfully. This is our responsibility. In this session, we investigate how digital risk has invaded the profession and how professionals can smartly mitigate digital risk in respect of their own data, but also the data of their employers, clients, and other stakeholders. In joining us for this session, you will be developing the following professional competencies:

• Main competency group: Enabling and future competencies

• Sub-competency group: Digital acumen

• Specific competency/ies: Cybersecurity; Digital familiarity; Digital impact; Digital user skills