Cybersecurity 101: The Essentials to Protect your Media Organization

Cybersecurity 101: The Essentials to Protect your Media Organization

Overview

As media organizations increasingly embrace IT and IP technologies, they face cybersecurity threats. These risks demand attention, yet cybersecurity teams can find themselves outnumbered and overextended in addressing the daily challenges.

Whether you're a professional, manager, or security officer, safeguarding your media organization’s cybersecurity is a shared responsibility. Our courses aim to empower you and your colleagues with the skills, knowledge, and tools needed to protect your broadcaster effectively.

At EBU Academy, we prioritize hands-on, interactive learning. Our courses feature a dynamic mix of exercises, group discussions, and presentations designed to ensure you gain practical, actionable insights.

We are happy to discuss your organization’s needs and help identify the most relevant topics to design bespoke courses tailored to your situation. Contact us and take the first step towards strengthening your cybersecurity resilience.

Who is it for

  • Media managers & professionals from all backgrounds,
  • Heads of Strategy and Heads of change
  • Security officers & coordinators, Media professionals who oversee cybersecurity in their organization

Course Topics (non-exhaustive)

  • Cybersecurity awareness - understanding what type of cyberthreats & business risks your media organization is facing,
  • Understanding & mitigating cybersecurity threats & risks in media organisations - protecting the unknown, how to build and maintain resilient and secure broadcasting infrastructure Understand how cyberattacks can be addressed and mitigated at your level,
  • Building & implementing an effective cybersecurity strategy for your media organisation
  • Design an incident response strategy – including how to run a tabletop exercise
  • Security frameworks & best practices
  • Defining the right Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to assess your cybersecurity level
  • Practical Cybersecurity for broadcast media engineers & technicians - learning about, vulnerabilities, vulnerabilities scanning, protecting hardware, networks and workflows
  • Stay up to date with cybersecurity threats and risks - including how the EBU can help you do this 

 

Meet your faculty

Fabrice Guye

Senior Manager and Business Director

Experienced Senior Manager and Business Director within the Cyber Security field with extended management responsibilities from technical teams to principal consultants: development of strategies, development of products, services and solutions, processes and metrics, staffing plan, recruitment and operational management (cost, budget and efficiency).

Currently General Manager at Senthorus and Leading the strategy, business development, marketing, partnership and sales activities at ELCA Security. Previously Director at Kudelski Security responsible for overseeing all Cybersecurity Advisory Services and Operations activities for the EMEA region. Acting as a trusted advisor for CISOs (from SMB to billion dollars companies).
 

Jakob Pfister

IT security engineer at ARGE Rundfunk-Betriebstechnik's Information Security and Technology dept

IT security engineer at ARGE Rundfunk-Betriebstechnik's Information Security and Technology dept. (common subsidiary of ARD and ZDF in Germany).
Jakob started as a broadcast system engineer (mainly testing NLEs/Storage) and shifting focus to security over time.  Since 2012, Jakob has been working full time in IT security covering topics such as Penetration-Testing Broadcast (and other IT-) Systems, building custom testing-software and auditing concepts and deployments. Furthermore, Jakob has been giving training courses on IT security and pushing open source software. Jakob is active in EBU MCS group with focus on security testing.
 

Stéphane Perroud

Advisor

Stéphane is an experienced Senior Consultant with over 15 years of expertise in Information Security. With a strong foundation in cybersecurity governance, ISO 27001, and with advisory skills, he has previously served as Information Security Manager at the EBU.

Today, Stéphane works as a trusted advisor to organizations of all sizes, from SMBs to large enterprises, helping them strengthen their security posture. In addition, he is an accredited trainer for leading security certifications, sharing his deep knowledge and practical insights with the next generation of cybersecurity professionals.