Surgent's AI and Cyber Risk Strategy for CFOs: Navigating Generative, Agentic, and Emerging Tech Threats

Overview

This course explores how CFOs can strategically adopt and govern emerging technologies — especially generative and agentic AI — while managing cybersecurity, infrastructure, and compliance risks. It provides practical guidance for evaluating digital investments, leading AI implementation, and building cyber resilience in finance operations.

Highlights

• Generative vs. agentic AI in forecasting, reporting, and recovery
• Minimum viable operations and cyber resilience (Deloitte)
• AI governance, ethics, and “human-in-the-loop” frameworks
• Emerging cyber threats and adversarial AI techniques
• Infrastructure considerations: AI chips, cloud cost, quantum risk
• Strategic role of the CFO in evaluating and governing tech investments

Prerequisites

None

Designed For

Aspiring and current CFOs, CITPs, controllers, and finance professionals leading technology, cybersecurity, or IT strategy decisions

Objectives

• Identify strategic opportunities and risks of generative and agentic AI in accounting and finance
• Design governance guardrails and resilience strategies for AI-enabled processes
• Evaluate cybersecurity threats, including adversarial AI techniques
• Assess infrastructure trade-offs between AI hardware, cloud models, and energy/resource impacts
• Prepare for emerging tech risks including post-quantum encryption challenges

Preparation

None