IT and Cybersecurity Risk Management Essential Training

Course details

If you work in IT risk management, you already know that one of the biggest challenges you face is the fact that you have limited resources to manage seemingly unlimited risk. So, how can you use your limited resources to reduce your greatest IT risks down to an acceptable level? To do that you need to understand what IT risk management really is and how it works in practice. In this course, information security expert Kip Boyle teaches how to set your organization up for success so they can stay in control of their data and systems. Kip imparts knowledge that will help deliver solid results with confidence and clarity, no matter the size of your company or the size of your budget. As he shows, if you do IT risk management well, you’ll have no trouble complying with cybersecurity laws, regulations, and customer requirements that require you to take a risk-based approach to protecting your digital assets.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Managing risk in IT

1. What Is IT Risk Management

02 - What is IT risk
03 - What is IT risk appetite
04 - What is IT risk tolerance
05 - Types of IT risks
06 - IT risk management roles and responsibilities
07 - Making an IT risk decision

2. IT Risk Management in Context

08 - IT risk management in small companies
09 - IT risk management in medium companies
10 - IT risk management in large companies
11 - Quantitative vs. qualitative risk assessments
12 - The role of organizational culture
13 - The minimum viable approach

3. IT Risk Management in Practice

14 - Performing the IT risk assessment
15 - Choosing an IT risk management framework
16 - Choosing an IT risk management tool
17 - Determining an acceptable level of IT risk
18 - Using an IT risk register
19 - IT risk management techniques

4. IT Risk Management on the Job

20 - Choosing the right IT risk management technique
21 - Choosing controls
22 - Implementing controls
23 - Operating controls
24 - Validating controls

Conclusion

25 - Next steps with managing risk in IT

IT and Cybersecurity Risk Management Essential Training

Authors

Kip Boyle