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Prompt course · 8 lessons · 26 prompts · 1 hour · Intermediate

AI for Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs)

This course gives you ready prompts for the daily work of a CISO. You will learn to turn threat feeds into briefs, draft policies, plan incident responses, and report to the board.

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What you'll learn

  • Threat briefs: Turn raw threat feeds and vendor reports into short summaries for your team and executives.
  • Policy drafting: Draft and map security policies to frameworks without starting from a blank page.
  • Strategy writing: Build a security strategy with goals, initiatives, and language executives understand.
  • Awareness training: Create role-based training, phishing simulations, and quizzes that employees actually get.
  • Audit prep: Plan assessments, prioritize findings, and prepare evidence requests for audits.
  • Incident playbooks: Build response playbooks, run tabletop exercises, and write communication templates.
  • Triage and postmortems: Interpret alerts, draft post-incident reports, and extract lessons learned.
  • Board reporting: Design security metrics and turn them into reports boards can act on.

What's inside

8 lessons · 26 prompts
  1. Before you start · framework course TIDD-EC Prompt Framework: Do, Don't and Precise InstructionsTIDD-EC fits your CISO role by specifying do and don't rules for compliance tasks like drafting an incident response report.
  2. Start here Priya's Wednesday, two waysA day in the life of a Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs), before and after these prompts.
  3. 01 Lesson 1 · 3 prompts Threat Intelligence Briefings
  4. 02 Lesson 2 · 5 prompts Policy And Controls
  5. 03 Lesson 3 · 3 prompts Security Strategy Drafting
  6. 04 Lesson 4 · 3 prompts Security Awareness Training
  7. 05 Lesson 5 · 3 prompts Vulnerability And Audit Prep
  8. 06 Lesson 6 · 3 prompts Incident Response Planning
  9. 07 Lesson 7 · 3 prompts Incident Triage And Postmortems
  10. 08 Lesson 8 · 3 prompts Security Metrics And Board Reporting

About this course

7 topics

Practical Prompts for Chief Information Security Officers

You already know security. This course helps you use AI to do the writing and planning parts faster. Each lesson is a prompt you can copy and adapt.

The prompts are built for ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini. You will see how to give context, ask for specific formats, and check the output before you use it.

  1. The lessons
    1. Threat Intelligence Briefings: Turn raw threat feeds and vendor reports into clear, actionable summaries for your team and executives.
    2. Policy And Controls: Draft, adapt, and map security policies and controls to frameworks without starting from a blank page.
    3. Security Strategy Drafting: Build a coherent security strategy with goals, initiatives, and executive-ready language.
    4. Security Awareness Training: Create role-based training content, phishing simulations, and policy quizzes that employees actually understand.
    5. Vulnerability And Audit Prep: Plan assessments, prioritize findings, and prepare evidence requests for audits with AI assistance.
    6. Incident Response Planning: Build playbooks, run tabletop exercises, and prepare communication templates before an incident hits.
    7. Incident Triage And Postmortems: Use AI to help interpret alert descriptions, draft post-incident reports, and extract lessons learned.
    8. Security Metrics And Board Reporting: Design meaningful security metrics and turn them into reports that executives and boards can act on.
  2. What the course covers

    The course covers eight areas of your work: threat briefings, policy, strategy, awareness, audit prep, incident response, postmortems, and board reporting. Each lesson gives you a prompt and a short explanation.

    You will see examples for ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.

  3. How the lessons connect

    The lessons follow the rhythm of security leadership. You start with understanding threats, then set policy and strategy. Then you prepare for incidents and audits, and finally report to the board.

    You can take them in order or jump to what you need today.

  4. How to use prompts well

    A good prompt has three parts: context, task, and format. Tell the AI who you are, what you need, and how you want it presented.

    Always review the output. AI can miss nuance or invent details. Your judgment is the final check.

  5. Who this course is for

    This course is for CISOs and security leaders who want to save time on writing and planning. It is also for deputies and team leads who prepare materials for you.

    You do not need to be a prompt engineer. If you can write an email, you can write these prompts.

  6. Safety and privacy

    Never put sensitive incident details, personal data, or credentials into a public AI tool. Use private or enterprise versions when available.

    The course shows how to anonymize examples and keep your organization's information safe.

  7. Your next step

    Pick one lesson that matches a task on your calendar this week. Copy the prompt, adapt it, and try it. Then note what worked and what you would change.

    Small experiments build confidence. Soon you will have a set of prompts you trust.