Executive Cybersecurity Masterclass: CTEM & Enterprise Risk Reduction
About this Event
When: Tue–Wed, January 12–13, 2027 · 9:00 AM–5:00 PM · Doors 8:30
Where: Washington, DC · Venue sent to registrants two weeks prior
Cost: $1,495 per seat · Forty seats
For: Security and risk executives — CISOs, exposure management leads, CIOs, GRC, federal agency and contractor leadership, board members
Take home: Student workbook, the 25-Point CTEM Readiness Checklist, the CTEM Program Toolkit, your completed 90-day roadmap, and 14 CPE + certificate
Why this now reaches your desk
Every organization that scans finds more than it can fix. That is not a failure of the tools. It is what the tools are built to do. They produce inventory, not strategy. The trouble starts when inventory gets treated as a work queue. Severity scores rank findings by how bad they would be if exploited. They do not rank them by whether an attacker can reach them. They do not rank them by whether the asset matters to the business. So effort flows toward severe-but-unreachable flaws while a chain of unremarkable weaknesses sits open. That chain runs from an internet-facing foothold to something you cannot afford to lose. Adversaries do not think in severity scores. They think in paths.
Your scanner found forty thousand findings. Your attacker only needs one path.
What you own by 5:00 PM
This is not a webinar, and it is not a technical session. It is a two-day working session for the people who approve the budget, sign the risk acceptance, and answer to the board.
You leave with:
- A ratified exposure scope and named owners
- A prioritization model your engineers will accept as fair
- A 90-day roadmap with an accountable executive on every line
What your seat includes
- Fourteen hours of live, in-person instructor-led training across two days
- The 25-Point CTEM Readiness Checklist, built as your board-ready takeaway
- The CTEM Program Toolkit — scoping worksheet, prioritization matrix, validation plan, accountability RACI, and board reporting template
- 14 CPE credits and a Certificate of Completion
- Printed student workbook and field guide
- Networking lunch both days
- 30-day access to all session materials
Who should be in the room?
Built for the leaders accountable for exposure risk — CISOs and security directors, vulnerability and exposure management leads, CIOs and CTOs, risk and GRC executives, federal agency and contractor security leadership, board members, and the operations executives who own remediation.
For federal agencies and contractors, a dedicated module maps every CTEM phase to the policy that already requires it, from CISA BOD 22-01 and BOD 23-01 through FedRAMP continuous monitoring and CMMC.
Vendor-neutral by design. No platform is recommended, and no sponsor influences the curriculum.
Leading the room
Dewayne Hart, USN (Ret.)
President & CEO, SEMAIS
A 20-year Navy veteran and CISSP-, CGRC-, and CEH-credentialed security leader who founded SEMAIS in 2014. Author of The Cybersecurity Mindset and Cybersecurity Leadership, and host of The Chief of Cybersecurity podcast, he has defended federal and Fortune 500 environments and makes technical risk legible to the people who sign the budget.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dewaynehart/
Anthony Grantham, USMC (Ret.)
Cybersecurity & Risk Leader
More than 25 years across federal and enterprise security, including service with DHS as an Information System Security Officer and VP of Cybersecurity roles at several Fortune 500 firms. Having defended security decisions to auditors and shareholders alike, he teaches leaders the real cost of their decisions.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthony-grantham-7447073/
SEMAIS is an SBA-certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB).
Want this at your organization? This masterclass also runs privately for organizations with group rates at www.semais.net.
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Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
USD 1295.00 to USD 10139.04
