Practical Assessments For Cybersecurity & Grc Professionals

Learn How To Conduct Practical Cybersecurity & GRC Assessments

What you'll learn

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

Requirements

Students require a basic understanding of Cybersecurity and GRC

Description

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 assessment2-Conducting a Ransomware Readiness Assessment3-Conducting a PCI DSS Readiness Compliance Assessment4-Conducting a CMMC Vendor Readiness Assessment5-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 Simulation8-Conducting a cloud security assessment9-Conducting a Cybersecurity Program Assessment10-Conducting a Data Protection and Privacy Assessment11-Conducting a Network Security Assessment12-Conducting a Social engineering assessment13-Conducting a Software development life cycle14-Conducting a Supply chain risk assessment15-Conducting a Third-Party Security Assessment16-Conducting an Application security assessment17-Conducting an Endpoint security assessment18-Conducting an Insider threat assessment19-Conducting an External Dependency Management Assessment20-Conducting a HIPAA Compliance Readiness Assessment21-Conducting a NIST CSF Readiness AssessmentAfter 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.

Overview

Section 1: SEGMENT 0

Lecture 1 Course Walkthrough

Lecture 2 Course Introduction

Lecture 3 Course objectives and Structure

Lecture 4 The Importance of conducting cybersecurity and GRC Assessments

Section 2: SEGMENT-1 (Fundamentals)

Lecture 5 Types of Cybersecurity & GRC Assessments

Lecture 6 Assessments Categorization

Section 3: SEGMENT-2 (Conducting The Practical Assessments)

Lecture 7 1-Section 2- Introduction

Lecture 8 2-What is Cyber Risk & its associated components

Lecture 9 3-General guidelines for conducting an Assessment

Lecture 10 4-Specific Assessment guideline example

Lecture 11 5-Intro to Practical Assessment

Lecture 12 6-Installation and Environment Overview

Lecture 13 7-Demo Walkthrough of the environment

Lecture 14 8-Preparing for the Assessment

Lecture 15 9-Conducting a ransomware risks assessment

Lecture 16 10-Conducting a Ransomware Readiness Assessment

Lecture 17 11-Conducting a PCI DSS Readiness Compliance Assessment

Lecture 18 12-Conducting a CMMC Vendor Readiness Assessment

Lecture 19 13-Conducting a NIST CSF - Cyber Resilience Review Assessment (CRR)

Lecture 20 14-Conducting a HIPAA Readiness Compliance Assessment

Section 4: SEGMENT-3-(Surprises)

Lecture 21 Introduction to the Surprises section

Lecture 22 Understanding the Vulnerability Assessment Process

Lecture 23 3-Conducting a Basic Vulnerability Assessment using Nessus

Lecture 24 4-Course Course Recap

Lecture 25 5-Intro to various categories of security tools provided by CISA

Section 5: SEGMENT-4 (Putting the information learnt into practice)

Lecture 26 Practical assessments to re-enforce learning.

Lecture 27 Student assignment overview

Section 6: END OF COURSE

Lecture 28 END OF COURSE

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.