Cybersecurity Risk Management: Identify, Analyze, and Mitigate Threats to Inform Business Decisions

Risk management, the process by which organizations identify, analyze, and mitigate potential threats, is a fundamental skill for any cybersecurity professional. This comprehensive course will teach you the components of risk management, the roles and responsibilities of each player, and how to put it all together to make smart business decisions. You will build the vocabulary and searching skills needed to identify the specific vulnerabilities and threats that are slowing down your mission as well as the ability to communicate about them effectively.

What you’ll learn and how you can apply it:

• Be able to apply risk management techniques to your organization
• Have a firm understanding of cybersecurity risk management
• Understand the technical risk inventory
• Be able to consolidate multiple risk analysis reports into a single risk management report

This course is for you because:

• You're a cybersecurity professional.
• You want a solid foundation and practical skills of risk management.
• You're looking to move into a new role from a technologist to a cybersecurity professional with an emphasis on core skills important to cybersecurity.
• Risk Assessment is an adjacent knowledge base that you would like to understand better.

Prerequisites:

• Knowledge of cybersecurity concepts and protocols
• Knowledge of network security methodologies
• CompTIA Network+ certification or equivalent knowledge
• Knowledge of the following: ports, protocols, services, OSI layers, routing, switching, IP addressing, wired and wireless networking infrastructure, network operations, and network troubleshooting tools