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.
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 companies 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!
■ Easily fulfill client needs and manage your own technical supply-chain.
■ With a focus on lean, cost-efficient processes and your return on invest!
+ Weekly community calls with up to date CISO insights, Q&A, networking and peer group support.
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.
Preview Video: Before you start
Your guided Journey 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.
Preview Video: 7. Cybersecurity Frameworks
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.
Main Chapters
1. Shifting Attack Scenarios
[+ Learning Videos to share with the Team]
2. Technical and operational Quick Fixes
[+ Checklist]
3. Legal Requirements
[+ Checklist for Lawyer's Appointment]
4. People Skills
[+ Lobbying & Conflict Solving]
5. Project Management Setup
[+ All Templates ready to download!]
6. Effective Cybersecurity Training
[+ Learning Videos to share with the Team]
7. How to choose the right Cybersecurity Framework
[+ Talk-through specific Requirements per Framework + ISMS Setup]
8. Long-term Project Planning
[+ Template]
9. IT Infrastructure Overview
[+ Example Tech Setup + Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)]
10. Worst Case Plan
[+ Template]
11. Policies
[+ Templates]
12. Vendor Management
[+ Efficient Process Setup]
13. Assessment for Certification Preparation
[+ Best Practices]
Partners for Cybersecurity Success:
