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Practical Assessments for Cybersecurity & GRC Professionals
Rating: 4.0 out of 5(301 ratings)
2,736 students
Created byRichea Perry
Last updated 9/2025
English

What you'll learn

  • Students, 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

Course content

7 sections34 lectures5h 8m total length
  • The Importance of Practical Assessments in Information Security3:44
  • Course Walkthrough3:47
  • Course Introduction2:10
  • Course objectives and Structure3:35
  • The Importance of conducting cybersecurity and GRC Assessments4:19

Requirements

  • Students require a basic understanding of Cybersecurity and GRC

Description

This course is designed 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.

Who this course is for:

  • 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.