• Classroom
  • Online, Instructor-Led
Course Description

Build a greater understanding of the impact of IT risk and how it relates to an overall organization. Assure development of more effective plans to mitigate risk, establish a common perspective and language about IT risk that can set the standard for your enterprise.

Learning Objectives

  • Laws, regulations, standards, and compliance requirements related to risk management
  • Components of enterprise systems architecture
  • Business goals and objectives related to risk management
  • Methods to identify risk
  • Risk scenario development tools and techniques
  • Risk identification and classification standards and frameworks
  • Elements of a risk register
  • Risk appetite and tolerance
  • Risk analysis methodologies (quantitative and qualitative)
  • Organizational structures
  • Organizational assets
  • Organizational policies and standards related to risk management
  • Business process review tools and techniques
  • Analysis techniques (e.g., root cause, gap, cost-benefit, return on investment [ROI])
  • Maturity model assessment and improvement techniques and strategies
  • Data analysis, validation, and aggregation techniques (e.g., trend analysis, modeling)
  • Data collection and extraction

Framework Connections

The materials within this course focus on the NICE Framework Task, Knowledge, and Skill statements identified within the indicated NICE Framework component(s):

Specialty Areas

  • Risk Management

Specialty Areas have been removed from the NICE Framework. With the recent release of the new NICE Framework data, updates to courses are underway. Until this course can be updated, this historical information is provided to give better context as to how it can help you with your cybersecurity goals.

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