Overview

Business goals may include organizing the company to make it more efficient and profitable or redefine the major target markets. Key business goals must also reduce the risk of a data breach, the loss of intellectual property, and the compromise of valuable research data, while protecting employee and customer information. Success requires a business-focused cyber risk management program that includes a complete understanding of business activities and the potential organizational risk when a bad actor compromises one or more of these activities.

Technology goals start with the identified business activities. What technology underpins, enables, supports, or delivers each business activity? To understand security control requirements, we must first identify how the system supports the business activity and the impact of a bad actor on the business. It is essential to consider the risks associated with our systems, applications, and processing environment.

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Prerequisites

This course assumes the student has successfully taken and passed the NIST Cyber Security Professional 800-53 Practitioner Certificate course and provides an introduction to the integration of typical enterprise capabilities with cybersecurity from the perspective of the selected cybersecurity informative reference. The overall approach places these activities into systems thinking context by introducing the Service Value Management System that is composed of three aspects, governance, assurance, and the Z-X Model.

With this in place, this overlay course presents the approach to adapt, implement, operate, and improve the organizational cybersecurity posture that builds on the application of the FastTrack™ concept.

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Learning Outcomes

This course looks at the impact of adapting a principled approach to the enterprise risk management (ERM) framework to better support cybersecurity decisions, establishing the context for the selected informative reference (IR). It guides students on the best approach to adapting, implementing, and operating (AIO) a comprehensive cybersecurity program, including preparation for CMMC compliance, that can be integrated into the existing organizational capabilities and incorporates the selected IR.

The course includes lectures, informative supplemental reference materials, workshops, and a formal examination. The workshops are a critical aspect of the course and develop examinable material; do not skip them. Outcomes and benefits include a practical approach that students can use to build and maintain cybersecurity and cyber risk management programs to support the selected IR.

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Course Outline

Module 1, Course introduction

Introduces the course and its aims, followed by a lesson that prepares students for the rest of the material. Lessons include:

  • Course organization
  • Setting the stage

Module 2, Managing risks in the digital age

Introduces students to ERM and the COSO principles. Lessons include:

  • Enterprise risk management framework
  • COSO overview
  • Enterprise risk management framework applied

Module 3, Cybersecurity within a system

Introduces systems thinking and the SVMS (which includes the Z-X model). Lessons include:

  • The importance of systems thinking
  • Governance and culture
  • Strategy and set objectives
  • The service value management system
  • The Z-X model overview

Module 4, Z-X model capabilities

Probes the details of the Z-X model and its relationship to existing organizational capabilities. Lessons include:

  • Plan
  • Design
  • Build and deploy
  • Operate
  • Improve

Module 5, Adapt, covers the first part of AIO

Introduces the goal, question, metrics (GQM) approach to develop appropriate metrics for the cybersecurity implementation. Lessons include:

  • Overview of AIO (adapt, implement, and operate)
  • Cybersecurity adopt and adapt
  • Adapt in the context of the Z-X model
  • Preparation to implement
  • Project approach
  • Goal, question, metrics (GQM) overview
  • Metrics, measurement, and balance

Module 6, Implement, covers the second part of AIO.

It presents the implementation of the selected cybersecurity IRs using the phased approach introduced in the NIST Cyber Security Professional Foundation 800-53 Practitioner courses. Lessons include:

  • Cyber Security Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Overview
  • FastTrack & CMMC
  • Phase 0 controls
  • Phase 1 controls
  • Phase 2 controls
  • Phase 3 controls
  • FastTrack™/CMMC & You

Module 7, Operate and ongoing improvement.

Covers the third part of AIO. Lessons include:

  • Operate, improve, and the COSO principles
  • Deliver value and integrate
  • Ongoing improvement

Exam

The key elements of the examination included in the course costs, taken remotely post course, and its administration are as follows:

  • Prerequisites: Learner must hold NIST 800-53 Practitioner Certificate
  • Duration: 120 minutes
  • Number of questions: 65
  • Delivery: Open book, open notes
  • Online Proctored exam post course
  • Format: 65 multiple-choice questions, each with a single correct answer from four choices (A, B, C, or D).
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Why choose QA

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Special Notices

Cyber Security learning paths

Want to boost your career in cyber security? Click on the roles below to see QA's learning pathways, specially designed to give you the skills to succeed.

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Certification = Certification
Application Security
Cloud Security
Information Security Management
Security Risk
Cyber Tech Generalist
DFIR Digital Forensics & Incident Response
Industrial Controls & OT Security
NIST Pathway
OffSec
Privacy Professional
Security Auditor
Secure Coding
Cyber Blue Team
Vulnerability Assessment & Penetration Testing
Emerging Tech Security
Reverse Engineer
Security Architect

Governance, Risk & Compliance learning paths

Want to boost your career in Governance, Risk & Compliance? View QA's learning pathway below, specially designed to give you the skills to succeed.

Required Star = Required
Certification = Certification
Information Security Management
NIST Pathway
Security Auditor
Security Risk

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