
Develop practical governance, risk, and compliance expertise for GRC professionals by building and implementing a full compliance program in cyber security, on premise or cloud environments.
Discover practical GRC fundamentals and a hands-on breakdown of risk management, compliance, and data protection modules. Ten hours of labs and research-driven learning empower integrated governance.
Develop practical compliance skills for upcoming GRC professionals by bridging theory and reality through frameworks like ISO 2701, mapping requirements to controls and evidence for audit readiness and employability.
Explore governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) concepts within a practical platform; learn how a GRC programs manager, analyst, or specialist identifies risks, develops policies, and monitors compliance.
Explore governance, risk and compliance (GRC) fundamentals, its importance for organizations, benefits and challenges, and learn how to research and apply sources to build a robust compliance program.
Governance, risk and compliance (GRC) is an integrated collection of capabilities that enable an organization to reliably achieve objectives, address uncertainty, and act with integrity for principled performance.
Explore risk management within cybersecurity and GRC, detailing benefits like reduced data breach risk, improved security posture, and increased compliance, plus the ongoing, adaptable process and key frameworks.
Explore how risk management reduces data breach risk, improves security posture, and enhances compliance and risk communication through the cyber security risk management process: identify, assess, control, and review risks.
Explore how cybersecurity risk management uses established frameworks like the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and ISO 27001 to identify, mitigate, and monitor risks across an organization.
Explore the risk management framework and its phases: prepare, select, implement, monitor, and authorize, showing how a centralized GRC system coordinates cyber security risk, compliance tasks, audits, and policy reviews.
Explore the compliance management module in GRC, covering regulatory and corporate compliance, controls, monitoring, training, and remediation to mitigate risk and promote transparency and accountability.
Explore assessing compliance risk and building a compliance management program within your organization's GRC function, covering requirements, gaps, changes, risk prioritization, and monitoring and improvement.
Identify applicable laws, regulations, and standards; assess the current state of compliance; develop and implement a compliance plan; monitor, enforce, and update it, while securing executive buy-in and leveraging technology.
Identify applicable laws, assess the current state of compliance, and develop a living compliance management plan; monitor, enforce, review, and update to continuously improve the organization's GRC compliance program.
Strengthen practical compliance management with monitoring and evaluation through kpis, monitoring systems, audits, and reporting. Use analysis and review and continuous improvement to drive governance and stakeholder updates.
Define evaluation criteria and performance indicators, gather data from reports, incident logs, and stakeholder feedback, analyze trends and root causes, benchmark against best practices, and implement an improvement plan.
define objectives, scope, and stakeholder roles to build an effective governance, risk, and compliance program. integrate and monitor policies, risk management, and compliance activities, continuously improving the grc framework.
Access the practical GRC platform to build compliance management and risk management skills through recorded tutorials, hands-on activities, and a certificate upon completing all modules.
Apply theoretical knowledge to real-world compliance, risk management, and GRC program development within a team. Build and showcase practical GRC skills for future roles.
This course is for people who need to develop and gain the relevant practical hands-on experiences to apply for a role in GRC. For example compliance management.
The course is divided into two sections as follows:
SECTION 1-Fundamentals
Understand the principles of governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC).
Identify and assess risks to an organization's compliance with regulations and standards.
Develop and implement a compliance management program.
Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the compliance management program.
Course Outline
Module 1: Introduction to GRC
What is GRC?
The importance of GRC
The benefits of GRC
The challenges of GRC
Module 2: Risk Management
What is risk management?
The risk management process
Identifying risks
Assessing risks
Treating risks
Module 3: Compliance Management
What is compliance management?
The compliance management process
Identifying regulations and standards
Assessing compliance risks
Developing and implementing a compliance program
Module 4: Monitoring and Evaluation
Monitoring compliance
Evaluating the effectiveness of the compliance program
Continuous improvement
SECTION 2-PRACTICAL HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES
Student will be introduced to a real-live platform environment that will allow them to practice all of the below GRC activities to develop their practical experience. This consists of approximately 10 hours of lab guided exercises.
1. -Compliance Management- Learn how to certify and manage a ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, NIST, SOC2, etc. program
2. -Risk Management-Learn how to implement Asset, Third Party and Business Risk Management
3. -Data Protection Program-Learn how to implement ad operate a data protection program
4. -Internal Controls & Audits- Record your internal controls and their audit records
5. -Policy Management- record your policies, procedures, standards etc., and manage their reviews
6. -Incident Management- Record and manage security incidents lifecycle in one place
7. -Asset Management- Define and review assets primarily used in Risks and Data Protection programs
8. -Project Management- Manage proactive and reactive improvements to your GRC program
9. -Exception Management- Record and manage risks, compliance and policy exceptions lifecycle
10. -Business Continuity Plans