Introduction to Risk Management in Cyber Environments
What you'll learn
- Student learn to understand risk and the required components of risk management.
- Students will also begin to understand that cybersecurity is risk management.
- This course will provide techniques to calculate risk and do a full risk assessment.
- Students will learn risk termanology and practical examples of risk management for career advancement.
Requirements
- This course is designed for people who are curious.
- Students will need to bring a desire to grow.
- Only requires life experience and a general understanding of business.
Description
Former Homeland Security Cybersecurity Director teaches the skill of performing risk assessments in an Information Technology Environment. Learn the steps and the focus points to elevate your career or project. Performing risk assessments and measuring risk is the preminent approach to securing digital systems.
An effective risk management process is an important component of a successful IT security program. The principal goal of an organization’s risk management process should be to protect the organization and its ability to perform their mission, not just its IT assets. Therefore, the risk management process should not be treated primarily as a technical function carried out by the IT experts who operate and manage the IT system, but as an essential management function of the organization.
Who this course is for:
- Professionals considering career change, IT and cybersecurity students
- Business professionals who make decisions for their company or organization
- Those seeking to make better business decisions
- Hardware and software professional who want to see the big picture
- People seeking career advancement
Course content
- Preview04:30
- 05:12Relating Risk to Life
Instructor
![Michael A Echols](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 2 Reviews
- 4 Students
- 1 Course
CEO of Max Cybersecurity, a national security and cybersecurity consultancy. Mr. Echols was the Chair of the Communications Sector, Representative to NATO and point person for White House Information Sharing programs. Mr. Echols served as a Cybersecurity Director at the Department of Homeland Security. He specializes in Risk Management, Exercise, Training, and Cyber Strategy.
Mr. Echols has been featured on PBS, RoadTrip Nation and several other radio and television programs. He is an international speaker and has a 2020 Book, Secure Cyber Life: The Government IS Not Coming To Save You. It is found on amazon.
Mr. Echols also leads a non-profit out of Kennedy Space Center. IACI assists groups of businesses to build cyber threat information sharing organizations.