Ultimate ISACA CRISC Masterclass - Security Risk Management

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Last updated 8/2026

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What you'll learn

Understand all core CRISC domains in a structured, connected way, including governance, IT risk assessment, risk response and reporting, and Security Controls
Build a repeatable study plan that fits your schedule and helps you retain and apply CRISC concepts on exam day.
If you followed the course, solved all quizzes, finished practice exams with at least 80% - YOU WILL PASS THE EXAM!
Translate risk concepts into real-world decisions, from identifying and analyzing risks to selecting the right controls and communicating residual risk
Break down CRISC-style scenario questions, identify the risk context, and choose the most appropriate, business-aligned response.
Speak confidently about risk appetite, risk tolerance, control effectiveness, key risk indicators
Speak confidently about governance expectations with executives, auditors, and ri

Course content

6 sections • 136 lectures • 24h 22m total length

Welcome to CRISC 2026 - Updated CRISC Training As per New ISACA Outlines11:54
A Personal Welcome from The Content Engineer - How This Course Was Developed11:13
Welcome to the course! In this introductory lecture, you will meet the Content Engineer behind your curriculum and discover the exact methodology used to design this learning experience.
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We designed every module with your success in mind. Let’s dive in and look at how to get the most out of your investment!
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Security Objectives and the CIA Triad13:37
This lecture introduces the foundational security objectives—confidentiality, integrity, and availability—and explains how they guide enterprise risk decisions. You’ll learn why the CIA Triad is central to every security and governance framework.
What Is a Security Program? Purpose, Scope, and Ownership15:13
Explore the structure and purpose of a security program, including its scope, objectives, and ownership. This lecture explains how organizations build programs that align with business goals and support risk management.
GRC Fundamentals — Objectives of Governance, Risk, and Compliance13:20
A comprehensive overview of GRC and how governance, risk, and compliance work together to support enterprise objectives. You’ll understand how GRC frameworks ensure accountability, transparency, and effective risk oversight.
Risk Governance vs. Management — Decision Rights and Accountability13:52
Learn the critical differences between governance and management, including decision rights, accountability, and strategic oversight. This lecture clarifies how responsibilities are distributed across the organization.
Information Security Governance — Principles and Practices14:11
This lecture covers the principles of information security governance and how organizations establish effective oversight. You’ll learn how governance ensures alignment between security initiatives and business objectives.
Organizational & Corporate Governance Structures11:53
Understand how organizations are structured and how governance frameworks support decision‑making. This lecture explains reporting lines, committees, and the mechanisms that ensure accountability and strategic alignment.
Your First Meeting with Management
Quiz 10:04
Building a Risk‑Aware Culture and Professional Ethics in the Age of AI11:03
Explore how organizations cultivate a risk‑aware culture and uphold ethical standards, especially in an era shaped by automation and AI. This lecture highlights behaviors, values, and leadership practices that strengthen governance.
The Three Lines of Defense (3LOD) — Governance in Practice14:41
A detailed explanation of the 3LOD model and how it enhances risk oversight. You’ll learn how each line contributes to assurance, accountability, and effective governance across the enterprise.
Integrating Cybersecurity with Business Strategy and Operations16:00
This lecture shows how cybersecurity must align with business strategy to support resilience and operational continuity. You’ll understand how risk professionals bridge the gap between technical controls and business outcomes.
Business Process Resilience — BCP & DRP from a Governance Lens10:16
Learn how business continuity and disaster recovery planning support governance objectives. This lecture explains how organizations maintain resilience, protect critical processes, and ensure operational readiness.
RACI Matrix — Clarifying Roles and Responsibilities11:07
A practical guide to using the RACI model to define roles, responsibilities, and decision‑making authority. This lecture helps you understand how clear accountability supports governance and reduces operational risk.
Quiz 20:04
Policies as Governance Instruments — Design and Hierarchy11:22
Explore how policies function as governance tools that guide organizational behavior. You’ll learn about policy hierarchy, structure, and how well‑designed policies support compliance and risk management.
Standards as Governance Instruments — Adoption & Control12:19
This lecture explains how standards ensure consistency, quality, and control across the organization. You’ll learn how standards complement policies and support governance and regulatory compliance.
Procedures and Guidelines — Operationalizing Governance12:17
Understand how procedures and guidelines translate governance intent into actionable steps. This lecture shows how operational documents ensure consistency, accountability, and effective risk control.
Security Frameworks & Standards Overview (SOX, ISO, NIST, COSO)18:04
A high‑level overview of major security and governance frameworks. You’ll learn how SOX, ISO, NIST, and COSO support risk management, compliance, and organizational governance.
Quiz 30:04
Developing Risk Management Policy
Data Lifecycle — Creation to Destruction10:41
This lecture explains how data moves through its lifecycle and the governance controls required at each stage. You’ll understand how proper handling reduces risk and ensures compliance with regulatory requirements.
Data Governance Programs — Stewardship, Ownership, and Controls10:52
Learn how data governance programs are structured, including roles such as data owners and stewards. This lecture highlights the controls and processes that ensure data quality, security, and accountability.
Organizational Asset Management for Risk Professionals12:35
A detailed look at asset management and why it is foundational to risk assessment. You’ll learn how organizations identify, classify, and manage assets to support governance and security objectives.
Secure Data Destruction — Methods and Compliance13:07
Explore secure data disposal methods and the regulatory requirements that govern destruction. This lecture helps you understand how improper disposal creates risk and how organizations mitigate it.
Quiz 40:04
Data Security Controls — End‑to‑End Protections12:01
A comprehensive overview of the technical and administrative controls used to protect data throughout its lifecycle. You’ll learn how layered controls reduce risk and support governance.
Privacy vs. Security — Concepts, Obligations, and Regulations16:14
This lecture clarifies the differences between privacy and security, including legal obligations and regulatory frameworks. You’ll understand how privacy risks intersect with security governance.
Quiz 50:04

Core Security Terms — Threats, Risks, Exploits, and Attacks12:19
Vulnerabilities — Understanding Weaknesses and Exposure10:59
Malware Landscape — Types, Behavior, and Impact13:08
Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) — TTPs and Campaigns14:04
Analyze advanced persistent threats (APTs) and their tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) to attribute campaigns and strengthen defenses of critical assets using threat intelligence and the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
Security Hygiene — Anti‑Malware and Foundational Defenses13:23
Quiz 60:04
Abstraction of Cyber Attacks — Kill Chain & MITRE ATT&CK13:48
Analyze the abstraction of cyber attacks from reconnaissance to objective, highlighting the killchain and MITRE ATT&CK framework for understanding tactics and defenses.
DoS & DDoS Attacks — Methods and Mitigations14:11
Web Application Attacks and the OWASP Top 1013:52
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) — Patterns and Prevention11:46
Quiz 70:04
Social Engineering — Techniques and Controls11:47
Digital Risk Protection and Dark Web Monitoring14:18
Protect brand integrity, data protection, and executive security by mastering digital risk protection and dark web monitoring, including threat intelligence, data leak detection, and proactive takedown actions.
Network Attack Vectors — Wired Environments16:31
Wireless Security Threats and Countermeasures16:58
Quiz 80:04
The Complete Risk Management Process — End‑to‑End Flow15:58
Risk Management Frameworks — Overview and Selection13:39
Explore risk management frameworks, including ISO 31000, ISO 27005, NIST, COSO, IZAKA, and RMF, and learn how they identify, assess, mitigate, and monitor risk across business and cybersecurity operations.
Risk Profile — Purpose, Inputs, and Maintenance15:46
Define risk appetite, tolerance, and a living risk profile that links strategy to decisions, using crisp appetite statements, measurable tolerances, triggers, escalation, and thorough documentation.
Inherent vs. Residual Risk — Interpreting Risk Levels11:32
Quiz 90:04
Risk Identification — Sources, Tools, and Techniques12:31
Risk Scenario Development — From Qualitative to Quantitative18:21
Develop well-structured risk scenarios that specify assets, threats, events, vulnerabilities, and impacts. Evaluate them across likelihood, impact, velocity, persistence, and detectability to prioritize responses and reporting.
Risk Analysis — Likelihood, Impact, and Aggregation13:16
Risk Evaluation and Response — Treatment Strategies14:09
Risk Reporting and Monitoring — Cadence and Metrics15:27
Quiz 100:04
Threat Modeling — Identifying Threats and Misuse12:25
Use Cases and Abuse Cases — Uncovering Control Gaps12:17
Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing - Red Team/Blue Team7:53
Explore vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, and red-blue team exercises to identify and remediate vulnerabilities, test defenses, and strengthen incident response through realistic simulations and debriefings.
Maturity Assessment Models — Using CMMI for Risk Improvement12:31
Quiz 110:04

Security Controls — Concepts, Purposes, and Categories14:28
Control Objectives, Control Types, and Compensating Controls12:57
Selecting and Implementing Security Controls11:34
Quiz 120:04
Assessing and Monitoring Controls — Effectiveness and Assurance13:39
KRIs, KPIs, and KCIs — Metrics and Risk Reporting Dashboards11:51
Design and report risk metrics using KPIs, KRIs, and KCIs with dashboards that balance leading and lagging indicators, ensuring clear definitions, data sources, owners, and actionable thresholds.
Defense in Depth — Layered Control Design14:04
Control Acquisition — Planning, Procurement, and Governance15:25
Issues, Findings, Exceptions, and Risk Acceptance Governance11:38
Roles and Accountability — Owner vs. Custodian11:47
Identify and delineate owner, custodian, and user roles to protect data and assets, implement access controls, and ensure accountability, compliance, and operational resilience.
Quiz 130:04
NIST RMF — Risk Management Framework in Practice12:48
NIST SP 800‑30 — Guide for Risk Assessments13:55
COSO ERM — Enterprise Risk Management Integration13:54
ISO 31000 & ISO 27005 — Risk Principles and Methods14:06
ISACA COBIT Framework — Governance Alignment10:27
Explore the COBIT framework, its governance and management objectives, how design factors tailor governance, and map stakeholder needs to IT objectives via the goals cascade.
Quiz 140:04
Incident Management — Processes and Playbooks13:43
Business Impact Analysis (BIA) — Methods and Outcomes12:06
Explore how business impact analysis identifies critical functions, assesses dependencies, and quantifies disruption impacts to guide risk management, contingency planning, and resilient recovery for organizational continuity.
Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP) — Strategies and Testing12:17
Business Continuity Planning (BCP) — Program Design13:39
Tabletop Exercises and Simulations — Validating Risk Response12:39
Data Backup — Strategies, Testing, and Recovery13:29
Quiz 150:04
Firewalls — Types and Deployment Patterns14:22
Learn how firewalls protect networks—from packet filtering and stateful, circuit-level, and application-layer approaches to NGFWs, cloud firewalls, and web application firewalls—enabling defense-in-depth.
DMZ and Honeypot Architectures — Use Cases and Risks11:41
IDS & IPS — Detection and Prevention in Practice12:32
Email Security — Controls and Threat Handling11:55
Network Segmentation — Isolation and Zero Trust Alignment11:35
Quiz 160:04
Change Management — Process, Risk, and Approval Workflows13:28
Endpoint Protection — Hardening and Monitoring11:47
Security Awareness Programs — Behavior Change as a Control12:43
Third‑Party and Supply Chain Risk Management11:18
Quiz 170:04

Enterprise Architecture — Foundations and Risk Perspectives14:21
Security Architecture Layers10:13
Application Architecture Overview — Risk Considerations13:28
Quiz 180:04
Technology Roadmaps — Prioritization and Risk Visibility13:48
Trust Models and Trust Relationships12:39
Zero Trust Architecture — Principles and Implementation Paths12:07
Quiz 190:04
Computing Device Components — Implications for Risk12:16
Enterprise Computing — Platforms, Workloads, and Risks16:17
IT Network Foundations — Protocols and Topologies19:21
OSI and TCP/IP Models — Control Placement and Monitoring17:20
DNS and DNSSEC — Integrity and Availability Controls13:58
Map domain names to IP addresses to enable web, email, and cloud interactions. Learn how DNSSEC, DOH, and DOT encrypt queries to protect integrity and privacy.
Quiz 200:04
Virtualization and Software‑Defined Data Centers15:39
Virtualization Security — Isolation, Sprawl, and Escape Risks12:47
Containers and Microservices — Architecture and Risks16:18
Explore how containers enable portable, efficient packaging of applications with isolated user spaces. Learn how microservices architecture decomposes apps into independent services, orchestrated via APIs, registries, and platforms like Kubernetes.
Container Security — Images, Registries, and Runtime13:47
Quiz 210:04
Cloud Computing — Concepts and Risk Considerations17:15
Explore how cloud computing shifts spending from capex to opex, enables on-demand, pay-as-you-go resources, and automates scalable IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS across public, private, and multi-cloud deployments.
Cloud Deployment Models — Public, Private, Hybrid16:05
Cloud Service Models — IaaS, PaaS, SaaS Risk Differences17:00
Quiz 230:04
Shared Responsibility Model — Security and Compliance Roles15:51
Cloud Contracts — Risk and Assurance Requirements16:14
Threats in Cloud Environments — Visibility and Control Gaps16:10
Quiz 240:04
Cryptography Overview — Objectives and Use Cases12:39
Symmetric Encryption — Algorithms and Key Management11:26
Asymmetric Encryption — PKI and Key Exchange15:21
Integrity and Hashing — Non‑Repudiation and Validation12:34
Quiz 270:04
AI Risk Management — Foundations for Risk Practitioners15:01
AI Governance and Risk Frameworks12:38
Explore how AI governance extends risk management to address scale, opacity, and bias with lifecycle controls, reporting, and integration into enterprise risk management across steering committees and ethics boards.
AI Data Governance, Privacy, and Ethics15:51
AI/ML Risk Assessment — Scenarios, Threat Modeling, and BIA11:23
OWASP LLM Top 10 — AI Application Risks16:44
Quiz 290:04
Quiz 300:04

Requirements

If you are ready to stop relying on random resources and start serious, focused CRISC preparation with structure and real-world relevance, this course is your roadmap.
Enroll now and turn your CRISC certification goal into a real, achievable result with clarity, support, and practical insight every step of the way.

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If you are aiming for the CRISC (Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control) certification and feeling overwhelmed by risk frameworks, control design, and exam-style scenarios? This course was built to change that.

In this practical, straight-to-the-point CRISC mastery program, we take you from feeling unsure and fragmented to clear, confident, and thinking like a true IT risk and controls professional. No dry reading of frameworks, no random theory. You get a clear roadmap, real-world risk scenarios, and focused exam preparation designed for busy professionals who want both the certification and the skills.

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

Understand all core CRISC domains in a structured, connected way, including governance, IT risk assessment, risk response and reporting, and information systems control design and implementation.
Translate risk concepts into real-world decisions, from identifying and analyzing risks to selecting the right controls and communicating residual risk to stakeholders.
Build a repeatable study plan that fits your schedule and helps you retain and apply CRISC concepts on exam day.
Break down CRISC-style scenario questions, identify the risk context, and choose the most appropriate, business-aligned response.
Speak confidently about risk appetite, risk tolerance, control effectiveness, key risk indicators, and governance expectations with executives, auditors, and risk committees.

Enroll now and turn your CRISC certification goal into a real, achievable result with clarity, support, and practical insight every step of the way.

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This course is an independent study resource designed to help you learn the subject matter. It does not replace official materials, exam blueprints, standards, or guidance published by certification bodies or standards organizations. This training is not sponsored by, endorsed by, affiliated with, or approved by ISACA, ISC2, Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), PECB, or any similar organization. All certification names and related marks, including CISA, CISM, CRISC, CGEIT, CDPSE, AAIA, AAISM, AAIR, CISSP, CCSP, CGRC, CSSLP, SSCP, CC, CCSK, CCAK, and CCZT, are registered trademarks of their respective owners and are used for identification purposes only.

Who this course is for:

You are preparing for the CRISC exam and want a clear, guided, and supportive preparation path.
You work in risk management, information security, IT audit, governance, or IT operations and want to formalize your expertise with a globally recognized risk certification.
You have tried self-study through books and scattered resources but felt overwhelmed, confused, or unsure how everything connects.
You want a course that treats you as a serious risk professional, not just someone memorizing control lists before an exam.
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Ultimate ISACA CRISC Masterclass - Security Risk Management

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CRISC Course Introduction3 lectures • 24min

CRISC Domain 1 — Governance28 lectures • 4hr 35min

CRISC Domain 2 — IT Risk Assessment32 lectures • 5hr 53min

CRISC Domain 3 — Risk Response and Mitigation35 lectures • 6hr 12min

CRISC Domain 4 — Information Technology and Security39 lectures • 7hr 17min

CRISC Mock Exams1 lecture • 1min

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