Building and Managing a Cybersecurity Program
1h 44mIntermediate2023-04-27
Authors

Kip Boyle
Founder and CEO of Cyber Risk Opportunities
Course details
Building and managing a cybersecurity program is not for the faint of heart! The landscape is vast, complex, uncertain, and downright weird. After all, who else’s job is it to think of all the ways your organization can digitally fail and describe them in a business-friendly way? In this course—the first in a two-part series—instructor Kip Boyle guides you through the entire program construction process, including team building, program management workflow, and demonstrating compliance and progress. Check out the second course in this series, Measuring and Managing Top Cyber Risks, to take a more focused look at how to systematically assess and mitigate threats.
Skills covered
Project LeadershipGovernance, Risk, and ComplianceIncident ResponseProject ManagementCybersecurityOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Protect against cyberattacks
- 02 - What you should know
1. Defining Key Terms
- 03 - What is information security
- 04 - Cybersecurity overview
- 05 - Cyber resilience overview
- 06 - Risk management overview
- 07 - Challenge - Prepare and recover
- 08 - Solution - Prepare and recover
2. Cybersecurity Program Goals
- 09 - Achieve your customers expectations
- 10 - Cyberattack and failure resilience
- 11 - Compliance with laws and regulations
- 12 - Executive and BOD support
- 13 - Challenge - Customer security requirements
- 14 - Solution - Customer security requirements
3. Cybersecurity Program Components
- 15 - Essential functions of a program
- 16 - Determine your role
- 17 - Build a team
- 18 - The need for management
- 19 - The need for leadership
- 20 - Challenge - Core competencies
- 21 - Solution - Core competencies
4. Structuring a Cybersecurity Program
- 22 - Sources of controls
- 23 - Organize around cyber resilience
- 24 - Information security program design
- 25 - Challenge - Customer requirements
- 26 - Solution - Customer requirements
5. Demonstrate Compliance and Progress
- 27 - Communicate with executives
- 28 - Communicate with stakeholders
- 29 - Communicate with auditors
- 30 - Construct an annual program of work
- 31 - Challenge - Optimize a cybersecurity program
- 32 - Solution - Optimize a cybersecurity program
Conclusion
- 33 - Next steps for cybersecurity programs
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