Practical Assessments for Cybersecurity & GRC Professionals: Essential Tools and Strategies for Effective Risk and Compliance Evaluation

Practical Assessments for Cybersecurity & GRC Professionals

Learn How To Conduct Practical Cybersecurity & GRC Assessments

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Last Updated: 2024-11-25 05:11:49 English Course Type: Self Learning

Students\you, will learn to practically conduct various industry established assessments. Assessments, that enhance security maturity.
Students will learn the steps and thought process involved in conducting an effective Cyber\GRC related assessment
Students will learn about various categories of tools and resources that can be used to enhance the cyber resiliency of an organization
Students will learn the fundamentals and advance elements in relation to conducting various types of Cyber & GRC related Assessments
Students will evaluate use cases that require the need for various types of assessments
Students will learn how to practically configure different environments to conduct these real-life assessments

I designed this course to provide Cybersecurity & GRC Professionals, with the confidence, skills, and tools to effectively and efficiently conduct a number of industry-established Cybersecurity & GRC Assessments (21 Assessments in total).

These assessments are done to enhance the security maturity level of an organization or business.

At the end of this course, you will gain the theoretical and practical skills required for:

>>Demonstrated by me (the instructor)

1-Conducting a Ransomware Risk assessment

2-Conducting a Ransomware Readiness Assessment

3-Conducting a PCI DSS Readiness Compliance Assessment

4-Conducting a CMMC Vendor Readiness Assessment

5-Conducting a NIST CSF - Cyber Resilience Review Assessment (CRR)

6-Conducting a Vulnerability Assessment

>>Your Assigned Practical Challenge to develop your skills (All supporting resources with steps provided for each assessment):

7-Conducting an Incident Response Planning and Simulation

8-Conducting a cloud security assessment

9-Conducting a Cybersecurity Program Assessment

10-Conducting a Data Protection and Privacy Assessment

11-Conducting a Network Security Assessment

12-Conducting a Social engineering assessment

13-Conducting a Software development life cycle

14-Conducting a Supply chain risk assessment

15-Conducting a Third-Party Security Assessment

16-Conducting an Application security assessment

17-Conducting an Endpoint security assessment

18-Conducting an Insider threat assessment

19-Conducting an External Dependency Management Assessment

20-Conducting a HIPAA Compliance Readiness Assessment

21-Conducting a NIST CSF Readiness Assessment

After completing this course, you will be able to comfortably demonstrate to prospective employers, that you possess the practical skills and theoretical knowledge to plan for and develop plans to initiate and conduct cybersecurity & GRC assessments, that can enhance the security posture of any organization.

Students require a basic understanding of Cybersecurity and GRC

This course is for individual who are trying to gain practical experience for entering the Cyber & GRC career path.
This course is also for persons already in cyber or GRC who specialize in conducting various types of assessments.

Section 1 : SEGMENT 1 5 Lectures 00:13:59
Lecture 1 :
Course Walkthrough Preview
Lecture 2 :
Course Introduction
Lecture 3 :
Course Objectives and Structure
Lecture 4 :
The Importance of Conducting Cybersecurity and GRC Assessments
Lecture 5 :
Course Resources
Section 2 : SEGMENT-2 (Fundamentals) 2 Lectures 00:16:07
Lecture 1 :
Types of Cybersecurity & GRC Assessments
Lecture 2 :
Assessments Categorization
Section 3 : SEGMENT-3 (Conducting The Practical Assessments) 14 Lectures 02:38:44
Lecture 1 :
1-Section 2- Introduction
Lecture 2 :
2-What is Cyber Risk & its associated components
Lecture 3 :
3-General guidelines for conducting an Assessment
Lecture 4 :
4-Specific Assessment guideline example
Lecture 5 :
5-Intro to Practical Assessment
Lecture 6 :
6-Installation and Environment Overview
Lecture 7 :
7-Demo Walkthrough of the environment
Lecture 8 :
8-Preparing for the Assessment
Lecture 9 :
9-Conducting a ransomware risk assessment
Lecture 10 :
10-Conducting a Ransomware Readiness Assessment
Lecture 11 :
11-Conducting a PCI DSS Readiness Compliance Assessment
Lecture 12 :
12-Conducting a CMMC Vendor Readiness Assessment
Lecture 13 :
13-Conducting a NIST CSF - Cyber Resilience Review Assessment (CRR)
Lecture 14 :
14-Conducting a HIPAA Readiness Compliance Assessment
Section 4 : SEGMENT-4-(Surprises) 5 Lectures 00:37:14
Lecture 1 :
Introduction to the Surprises section
Lecture 2 :
Understanding the Vulnerability Assessment Process
Lecture 3 :
3-Conducting a Basic Vulnerability Assessment using Nessus
Lecture 4 :
4-Course Course Recap
Lecture 5 :
5-Intro to various categories of security tools provided by CISA
Section 5 : SEGMENT-5 (Putting the information learnt into practice) 2 Lectures 00:04:17
Lecture 1 :
END OF COURSE
Lecture 2 :
Student Assignment Overview

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Richea Perry,

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My name is Richea Perry. I am a Cybersecurity & GRC Professional, who has experience working in the Petroleum, Education & Hospitality Industries. I help organizations develop and implement Cybersecurity & GRC Programs, that help them in their efforts to operate securely considering the many cyber risks. Some of my acquired skills are attributed to training that I have received in, but not limited to the following certification domains. OCEG-GRCP, GRCA, IPMP ISO 27001 LA\LI CISSP- Certified Information Systems Security Professional CRISC-Certified in Risk and Information Security Control CISA-Certified Information Systems Auditor CISM-Certified Information Systems Manager ISSEP- Information Systems Security Engineer Professional