Strategic Cybersecurity
for SMEs:
From Zero to Cybersecurity Certification
Interactive 12-week program, helping small teams build a solid strategy to protect digital assets from cybercrime and fraud, implement secure AI, fulfill regulatory requirements and win new clients.
You just need one team member who takes the lead, signs up and joins our course community!
Learn how to make smart cybersecurity decisions, create an audit-ready strategy and build supply-chain trust - without consultant dependencies.
A step-by-step, implementation-focused program for SMEs looking for a solid and precise cybersecurity strategy - guided by an experienced entrepreneur and Chief Information Security Officer who works with clients from highly-regulated industries.
■ No prior cybersecurity knowledge required!
■ Designed for companies without or only small internal IT team!
■ Videos, articles, templates, checklists, regular virtual community meetings and optional 1:1 calls + 12 months content and community access!
■ Built from real successful CyberTrust & ISO 27001 certification projects, translated for small budgets and self-learning!
■ Supporting your team on the way to your first cybersecurity certification and beyond!
■ With a focus on lean, cost-efficient processes and your return on invest!
Start building your Cybersecurity Strategy for secure and scalable business growth!
1. Learn the essentials
Understand what actually matters (no jargon, no noise, no upsells). Share free educational and awareness building videos with your team.
2. Implement step-by-step
Follow structured weekly modules with templates and examples, bring your questions to our live calls!
3. Validate & refine
Improve your protection measures right away and build your solid setup with community support.
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Your guided Transformation to:
- an immediately higher cybersecurity level, understanding of current threat scenarios, technical and operational protection measures against cybercrime and digital fraud.
- a structured cybersecurity strategy aligned with your business model, certification standards, client's and regulator's requirements.
- a complete, working foundation and the first version of your Information Security Management System (ISMS).
- core security documentation (legal risk assessments, processes, policies).
- a clear roadmap toward ISO27001 / CyberTrust / SOC2 certification.
- the ability to confidently answer client security questionnaires.
- a setup that supports EU GDPR, DORA, NIS2, CRA and AI Act compliance expectations.
Your Accountability Partner:
Carolin Desirée Toepfer
is an entrepreneur and cybersecurity leader with decades of hands-on experience building digital business models and securing them in real-world environments. She has worked with startups, scale-ups, and international organizations to raise their security posture - efficiently, pragmatically, and without unnecessary complexity.
What sets Carolin apart is her ability to design lean, high-impact security processes that actually get implemented. Instead of theory or checkbox compliance, she focuses on what works: clear priorities, fast execution, and measurable results. Her work has helped teams protect critical data, manage AI and privacy risks, and build resilient security cultures, often under tight budgets and time pressure.
Carolin is widely known for translating complex cybersecurity and AI risk challenges into clear, actionable strategies that decision-makers and teams can immediately apply. As an international keynote speaker, she combines sharp insights with real stories from the field, showing not just what to do, but how to do it effectively.
Curriculum
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1. Shifting Attack Scenarios
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📺Cybersecurity Basics for the Age of AI
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2. Technical and operational Quick Fixes
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📺The Panic around Anthropic's Cybersecurity AI Model
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Note: AI in Cybersecurity and Risk Management
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[Live Q&A Calls]
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Insights: Cyber Insurance
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3. Legal Requirements
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- No Legal Advice! But Guidance. (1:40)
- Regulatory Patterns (2:44)
- Data Protection (2:30)
- Cybersecurity (2:18)
- Business Continuity (1:20)
- Artificial Intelligence (0:50)
- Industry Requirements (0:40)
- Controlling Supply Chains (1:22)
- Reporting Timelines (3:08)
- Regulator's Platforms
- Checklist: Legal Meeting Prep
4. People Skills
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1st Double Check
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Cybersecurity Status Checks
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5. PROJECT MANAGEMENT SETUP & TEMPLATES
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- Just for better overview - don't stress!
- How to set up your work environment for success: (6:46)
- Document Folder, Cybersecurity Inbox, Support Flows
- Checklist: Quick Fixes [Chapter 2]
- Checklist: Legal Meeting Prep [Chapter 3]
- PROJECT OVERVIEW TEMPLATE
- Training Plan Template [Chapter 6]
- Cybersecurity Frameworks & Vendor Management Templates [Chapter 7 & 12]
- Cybersecurity Project Planning Template [Chapter 8]
- IT Infrastructure Overview Tutorial [Chapter 9]
- Worst Case Plan Template [Chapter 10]
- Policies [Chapter 11]
6. Effective Cybersecurity Training
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📺Cybersecurity Basics for the Age of AI
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📺 How to check an AI Tool before using it
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📺Recommended Cybersecurity Documentaries
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Talk to your Clients!
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7. How to chose the right Cybersecurity Framework
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Find the right Partners
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8. Long-term Project Planning
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ISMS Setup
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9. IT Infrastructure Overview
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📺Identity and Access Management
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2nd Double Check
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10. Worst Case Plan
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Quality of Process Descriptions
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11. Policies
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3rd Double Check
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1st Assessment for Certification Preparation
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12. Vendor Management
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📺My Vendor Check Tips
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Onboarding/ Change of IT Vendors
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13. Assessment for Certification Preparation
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Internal Audit
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Management Review
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Talk to your Clients!
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📺Cybersecurity for Business Development
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De-briefing and preparing Year 2
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📺 How to: Successful AI Projects
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