Marcus Rogers
PhD, CISSP, DFCP-F, FAAFS
Professor, Associate Dean of Faculty, Purdue University Polytechnic Institute
Director, Purdue Cyber Forensic Lab,
Fellow, Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
Research Areas
Psychological Profiling, Applied Cyber-Forensics, Cyber-Terrorism
meet the team
Blue Ribbon Faculty
Myla Lumibao, CPA, CIA
Security Risk Management Chief Audit Executive Vivant Corporation
Tope Aladenusi
CISSP, CISA, CRISC, CIA, CEH CBCI, CDPSE, ISO27001 LA Partner & Africa Cyber Leader Deloitte West Africa
Atonios Christodoulou, MBA
Founder, (CIO/CISO)
CYBER DEXTERITY
Cybersecurity Gamifier
Adjunct Faculty for GIBS Business School
Cyberpsychology Scholar
Uma Indran, FCMA, CGMA
AICPA Digital Mind Finance Director Finance Transformation Strategist
Christian Ekeigwe
FCA, CPA (Massachusetts), CISA (Virtual Advisor) Visionary at Audit is Trustworthy! Chairman, Audit Committee Institute
Rationale
The World Economic Forum's 2025 Global Risks Report highlights cybercrime among the top threats to human existence. It also laments the growing gap in cyber readiness. Today, every aspect of life is affected by the risks of cybercrime. As guardians of truth and gatekeepers of society, how might accountants and auditors help organizations enhance cyber readiness?
It is by maintaining a resolute, full-dimensional, and predictive sense and response posture informed by the wisdom that “to catch a thief, you must think like one." This wisdom is an unignorable verity honored by its timelessness. It is wisdom that keeps auditors and accountants mindful of the risks of cyberadversity. Unfortunately, many accountants and auditors worry that thinking like cybercriminals compromises the sanctity of the profession. So, they eschew such thinking, even though it is supported by the wisdom that “the quality of everything human beings do depends on the quality of the thinking we do first. The professionals who understand this are at the top of their fields” (Kline, 2015).
Who Should Attend?
This webinar is for Chief Finance Officers (CFOs), Chief Audit Executives (CAEs), Accountants, Audit Committee Members, Auditors (Internal/External), IT Auditors, Cybersecurity Auditors, Regulators and scholars, and anyone in a role that demands understanding cyberadversity to maintain full-dimensional defensive posture.
"Cybercrime is the single biggest threat to every company on earth.”
– Ginni Romett, former CEO of IBM
Auditing today without quality cybercriminal thinking expertise will be a Sisyphean effort. With the unstoppable rise in cybercrime, accountants and auditors MUST become adept at thinking with cognitive empathy to predict cyberadversities in order to prevent them. This is no time for over-reliance on stale financial controls, audit work programs, audit techniques, and technologies that are already mastered by criminals. Thinking - performed, exercised, and cloistered in the nooks of our brain, and inaccessible to criminals - has become the new maximand for developing the astute talent we need to combat cybercrime with an intrepid audit force based on meta-mentalizing. As guardians of truth, accountants and auditors cannot protect society without being capable of mentalizing the cybercriminal with assured power of noticing based on thinking like the cybercriminal. Therefore, modern accountants and auditors should have resolute courage and not be aghast at the idea of. thinking like cybercriminals. Just as scientists model and simulate climate change to find solutions, accountants and auditors must think like cybercriminals to improve cyber readiness. It is now urgent. It should not be repugnant to our professional sensibilities.
"Amateurs hack systems; professionals hack people.”
– Bruce Schneier
Legendary Cybersecurity Expert, Prolific Author, Thought Leader
How to Register
Fees:
Registration fee is US$25 per person or N36,000 per person. Please click on the button or scan the appropriate QR code below to register:
To pay by other means, please contact us at:
accounting@audistrustworthy.org
OR info@acinigeria.org
What you will learn:
At this webinar, you will learn from the cumulative seasoned wisdom of top experts whose dexterity has been forged in the cauldron of changing complex technologies over decades. You will go away wiser, more courageous, with adamantine professional courage to match inexorable, indurate cybercriminals, including discreet self-protection thinking for when the criminals come after you.
Register and Attend
YOU WILL LEARN HOW TO BE STRONG AND COURAGEOUS AND GO TO WORK THINKING LIKE CYBERCRIMINALS.
The various speakers will cover areas such as:
• The Impact of Artificial Intelligence in Cybercrime
• Mentalizing: Beyond Critical Thinking
• Thinking with Behavioral Analytics
• Metacognition in Cybercrime Thinking
• Meta Thinking in Cybercrime
• Mental Imagery to Prevent Cybercrime
• Full-Dimensional Cybercrime Mental Imagery
• Proactive Cyber Risk Thinking/Detection Thinking
• Cybersecurity Controls Thinking/Data Sensitivity Thinking
• Vulnerability Exploitation Thinking
• Cyber System Resilience Thinking
• Cybercrime Target Choice Thinking
• Is Thinking Like a Thief Sacrilege to the Sanctity of Audit?
• Bridging the Knowing-Doing Gap
• Mentalizing: Beyond Critical Thinking
• Thinking with Behavioral Analytics
• Metacognition in Cybercrime Thinking
• Meta Thinking in Cybercrime
• Mental Imagery to Prevent Cybercrime
• Full-Dimensional Cybercrime Mental Imagery
• Proactive Cyber Risk Thinking/Detection Thinking
• Cybersecurity Controls Thinking/Data Sensitivity Thinking
• Vulnerability Exploitation Thinking
• Cyber System Resilience Thinking
• Cybercrime Target Choice Thinking
• Is Thinking Like a Thief Sacrilege to the Sanctity of Audit?
• Bridging the Knowing-Doing Gap
Co-Sponsor
Audit is Trustworthy Worldwide Advocacy is an advocacy for the accounting profession, dedicated to ensuring that the role of accounting and audit in society is not dimished and relegated to obscurity, that the eternal verity that "Audit is Trustworthy" is persuaded into the beliefs of society and the market, and fairly valorized.