
Develop standardized, best-practices approaches to infosec tasks by building secure AI agents, planning adoption projects, and applying NIST, ISO 27001, and zero-trust frameworks.
Define industry best practices as the benchmark for excellence in information security leadership, and outline the top 10 practices for 2026 that reduce risk, boost consistency, and ensure cybersecurity compliance.
Derive enterprise wide security fundamentals using NIST, ISO 27001, CIS controls, and SOC 2. Apply universal CISO practices, zero trust, and AI governance to build cyber resilience across industries.
Outline the baseline for an infosec ai agent architecture by detailing the 10 cybersecurity and grc best practices, including secure ai adoption, zero trust, risk management, and nist/iso 27001 frameworks.
Explore building an information security best practices AI agent in a no-code mind studio environment, leveraging the top cybersecurity and GRC topics for practical, up-to-date guidance.
Develop an infosec best practices research agent that performs live web research for cybersecurity and GRC professionals using Google search plus web scraping in prebuilt menu or a custom topic.
Develop and implement best practices for secure AI adoption and governance, including AI risk management, zero trust architecture, and incident response across cloud and third party ecosystems.
Preview and customize your InfoSec best practices intelligence agent, browse best practices by topics, and test drafts to ensure secure AI adoption, governance, and zero trust across critical domains.
Explore implementing the NIST cybersecurity framework version 2.0 with a customized AI agent, based on best practices, covering governance, organizational profiles, and integration into enterprise risk management and incident response.
Apply the NIST cybersecurity framework 2.0 using an AI-assisted case scenario, prioritizing governance before controls and building an organizational profile with IT and OT asset discovery.
Lead your security team through real-world case scenarios by applying best practices across zero trust, risk management, incident response, ISO 27001, cloud security, and identity and access management.
Learn industry best practices for secure AI agent adoption, establishing AI governance and risk assessment before deployment to govern use cases, accountability, and integration within enterprise environments.
Implement secure AI adoption by deploying a value-aligned customer support agent in a mid-size financial services company. Ensure identity and access management, data privacy, and guardrails to reduce support workload.
Explain why ISO 27001 best practices secure AI agents and LLMs in high-stakes settings, detailing identity controls, read-only boundaries, short-lived tokens, guardrails, data privacy, and monitoring with red teaming.
Explore a case scenario where FINSECURE implements ISO 27001 ISMS, applying 16 steps, best practices, risk assessment and treatment, and the statement of applicability for governance and regulatory compliance.
Explore best practices for implementing an enterprise IAM program at a financial services firm, covering lifecycle management, policy design, HR integration, MFA, SSO, least privilege, automation, and governance across phases.
Explore governance-led IAM implementation for a midsize financial services firm, establishing identity foundations, MFA and SSO, RBAC, least privilege, and automated lifecycle management to meet regulatory and zero trust expectations.
Apply the NIST cybersecurity framework to conduct a maturity assessment for a midsize organization, identify gaps in controls, and strengthen governance, risk, and resilience ahead of ISO 27001.
Establish cybersecurity governance and define policies, roles, risk appetite, and third party oversight to implement the NIST cybersecurity framework 2.0 with an auditable, risk aligned approach.
Establish governance, policies, and roles to implement the NIST CSF 2.0 with clear risk appetite and third-party oversight. Learn best practices for governance and alignment of cybersecurity with business goals.
Learn to conduct a practical nist csf maturity assessment by testing protect and detect activities, identifying gaps, and applying controls to meet framework requirements.
Explore best practices for building a zero trust architecture using free and open source tools, applied via a case scenario across identity, network, data, and workload layers.
Implement a complete zero trust architecture using open source tools, from identity verification and device posture to workload identity and fine-grained access control, with centralized monitoring.
Implement a zero trust architecture by applying identity, device, workload, data, visibility, and network pillars. Align controls with NIST SP 800-207 and CIS standards, using continuous verification and contextual authorization.
Create an embedded zero trust architecture advisor for CISOs, built on industry best practices and NIST SP 800-207. Run maturity assessments, generate policies, and enable advisor chat across sessions.
Perform a phase-by-phase cloud security posture assessment from scoping and inventory to identity and access control, data protection, vulnerability testing, and remediation, grounded in cloud-aware frameworks and standards.
Explore a guided cloud security posture assessment best practices agent that conducts a six-phase, AI-driven evaluation aligned with NIST, CIS, and CISA, delivering radar charts and PDF reports.
Define what a cybersecurity audit is and its purpose, and outline the governance, risk management, IAM, technical security controls, incident response, third-party risk, and compliance elements.
Apply best practices to manage third-party vendor risk, identify high-risk vendors, and implement contractual safeguards. Use continuous monitoring and framework guidance (NIS, ISO, SOC 2, ISACA) across the vendor lifecycle.
Apply best practices from NIST and ISO to manage third-party vendor risk in FinTrust Capital’s onboarding of a cloud-based payroll HR SaaS vendor handling sensitive data.
Explore best practices for managing third-party vendor risk, from identifying and classifying vendors to conducting security due diligence and technical reviews, ensuring regulatory and privacy compliance.
Centralize the vendor inventory with risk-based tiering to guide onboarding and risk assessment. Standardize evaluation using frameworks, independent verification, and enforceable SLAs to protect data and continuity.
Develop a secure AI adoption project plan by outlining the design and development steps for a real-world implementation, aligning with best practices for cybersecurity and GRC professionals.
Develop a structured AI management and project plan aligned with NIST AI RMF and ISO 42001, detailing governance, risk, compliance, and secure deployment for AI adoption.
Define the project charter and objective to establish a secure AI adoption program with governance, reducing cybersecurity and privacy risk, and documenting sponsors, owner, manager, and users.
Break down an AI adoption project plan into phases, tasks, owners, and deliverables, detailing governance, discovery, secure architecture, pilot, rollout, and risk management.
Define and document key AI adoption deliverables—governance charter, risk register, control matrix, and vendor assessment—aligned with NIST, ISO, and other frameworks to guide secure AI integration.
Define measurable project success criteria for secure AI adoption, covering governance, visibility, risk management, security, compliance, training, and assurance, with clear KPIs, risk indicators, and phase rationale.
Align AI adoption with best practices via a governed project plan that integrates NIST, ISO, and PMI standards to ensure risk-aware, secure, compliant, and ethical AI.
In this section of this course, I give a practical walkthrough of what is involved in conducting an ISO 27001 Internal Audit.
Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Align AI adoption with governance and risk frameworks by defining AI policy, conducting AI risk assessments, monitoring lifecycle and drift, protecting data, and ensuring transparent, auditable decisions.
Apply AI agents to automate workflows and address InfoSec and GRC requirements across real-world scenarios, using industry-based practices and a practical project management plan for AI adoption.
Highlight updates to cyber security and GRC best practices, covering PCI DSS, ISO 27001, and the cybersecurity framework, and guide you to update your Excel sheet.
Explore PCI DSS version 4.0 changes and implement best practices through risk-based planning, gap analysis, and phased deployment, with ongoing monitoring and training.
Understand the ISO 27001-2022 update: reduced controls from 114 to 93. Includes annexes such as threat intelligence and cloud security; outlines executive buy-in, governance, and ISMS implementation best practices.
Explore best practices for implementing the NIST CSF 2.0, including governance integration with identify, protect, detect, respond, and recover; align with organizational needs, risk assessment, and continuous improvement.
Welcome to Revision 3
The Best practices for cybersecurity and GRC Professionals course, is designed to help you take a standardized and professional approach to addressing the many info-Sec challenges and requirements faced by many businesses and organization; by consulting and applying industry best practices in accomplishing tasks such as :
1-Implementong NIST CSF
2. Secure AI Agent Adoption
3. Building a Zero Trust Architecture
4. Implementing an ISO 27001 ISMS
5. Conducting a cybersecurity audit
Just to name a few.
The three main practical skills you will take away from this course :
1- Your ability to develop multiple AI agents that can act as your best practices advisor in any given info-sec scenario
2- How to develop a comprehensive project management plan (guided by best practices) for the Adoption of AI agent into any business or organization. Applicable to any other Info-Sec projects.
3- The ability to undertake any info-sec tasks by first consulting the industry best practices
Course Content Per Segment
SEGMENT-1 : Course Foundation
1-Course Introduction
2-What is meant by Industry Best Practices
3-Foundational Basis for the Industry Best Practices used in this course
SEGMENT-2 : Developing AI Agent Best Practices Advisors
4-Establishing Baseline for the Info-Sec AI Agent Architecture
5-Intro to generating Info-Sec Best Practices AI Agent
6-Issuing The First Commands to create The AI Agent
7-Creating the Info-Sec Best Practices Advisor Agent
8-Previewing Info-Sec Best Practices Intelligence AI Agent
9-Implement NIST CSF Using AI Agent_PT1
10-Implement NIST CSF Using AI Agent_PT2
11-Industry Best Practices for Secure AI Agent Adoption_PT1
SEGMENT-3 : Best Practices Appliction to various Case Scenarios
11-Intro To Best Practices applied to case scenarios
12-Best Practices for Secure AI Agent Adoption
13-Case Scenario-Secure AI Agent Adoption_pt1
14-Case Scenario-Secure AI Agent Adoption_pt2
15- Best Practices for ISO 27001 Successful implementation
16-Case Scenario-ISO 27001 Successful implementation
17-Best Practices for IAM Implementation
18-Case Scenario-IAM Implementation_pt1
19-Case Scenario-IAM Implementation_pt2
20-Best Practices applied in Conducting a NIST CSF-Maturity Assessment_pt1
21-Best Practices applied in Conducting a NIST CSF-Maturity Assessment_pt2
22-Best Practices applied in Conducting a NIST CSF-Maturity Assessment_pt3
23-Case Scenario- Conducting a Practical NIST CSF-Maturity Assessment
24-Planning & Preparing for a Pen-Test
25- Intro-Best Practices for Building a Zero Trust Architecture
26-Overview of the Core Zero Trust Pillars
27-Case scenario ZTA Implementation_pt1
28-Case scenario ZTA Implementation_pt2
29-Case scenario ZTA Implementation_Summary
30-ZTA Best Practices Advisor Agent_PT1
30-ZTA Best Practices Advisor Agent_PT2
30-Creating ZTA Advisor Agent
31- Cloud Security Assessment Best Practices_pt1
32- Cloud Security Assessment Best Practices_pt2
33- Cloud Security Assessment Best Practices_pt3
34-Creating a Cloud Security Posture Assessment Best Practices Agent_pt1
35-Creating a Cloud Security Posture Assessment Best Practices Agent_pt2
36-Understanding what is a Cybersecurity Audit
37-Cybersecurity Audit Best-Practice Case Scenario
38-Intro to end of Best Practices Assignments
39-Intro to Best Practices applied in Managing 3rd-Party Vendor Risk
40-Best Practices applied in Managing 3rd-Party Vendor Risk_pt1
41-Best Practices applied in Managing 3rd-Party Vendor Risk_pt2
42-Best Practices applied in Managing 3rd-Party Vendor Risk_pt3
43-Best Practices applied in Managing 3rd-Party Vendor Risk_pt4
44-Best Practices applied in Managing 3rd-Party Vendor Summary
SEGMENT-4 : AI Adoption Project Management
45-Intro_ Project Plan for AI Adoption
46-Understabding the Elements of the Project Management Plan
47- AI Adoption_Project management Plan_pt1
48- AI Adoption_Project management Plan_pt2
49- AI Adoption_Project management Plan_pt3
50- AI Adoption_Project management Plan_pt4
51- AI Adoption_Project management Plan_Final
SEGMENT-5 : Industry Best Practices Deep-Dive
52-Intro to Best Practices Deep-Dive
53-Best Practices Deep-Dive_pt1
54-Best Practices Deep-Dive_pt2