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CISO Competency - Risk

This is the eleventh course in Ed Amoroso's Twelve Competencies of the Effective CISO, which focuses on the CISO Competency in Risk Orientation. Developing a complete risk structure and framework for enterprise security prioritizes safeguards, minimizes expenses, and maximizes support and mitigation for business operations.
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Course Content

Course Description

- Role of Risk for the CISO

  • Mapping Cyber Risk to Business Risk
  • Prioritizing Security Based on Risk
  • Case Study on Cyber Risk
  • Get your [CISO certification training](https://www.cybrary.it/course/chief-information-security-officer-ciso/) from Cybrary today!

    This course is part of a Career Path:
    12 Competencies of the Effective CISO
    Dr. Edward G. Amoroso, CEO of TAG Cyber and former CISO of AT&T develops insights into the twelve technical, management, and business competencies that are required to serve as an effective Chief Information Security Officer (CISO).

    Instructed by

    Instructor
    Ed Amoroso

    I'm an experienced Chief Executive Officer, Chief Security Officer, Chief Information Security Officer (second person to hold the CISO position in history), University Professor, Security Consultant, Keynote Speaker, Computer Science Researcher, and Prolific Author (six published books) with a demonstrated history of working in the telecommunications industry beginning at Bell Labs and leading to SVP/CSO position at AT&T. Skilled in Cyber Security, Network Architecture, Wide Area Network (WAN), Managed Services, and Network Design. Strong entrepreneurship professional with PhD in Computer Science from the Stevens Institute of Technology, and also a graduate of Columbia Business School. Directly served four Presidential Administrations in Cyber Security, and now serves as a Member of the M&T Bank Board of Directors, Senior Advisor for the Applied Physics Lab at Johns Hopkins University, Adjunct CS Professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology, CS Department Instructor at New York University, and Member of the NSA Advisory Board (NSAAB).

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    Certification Body
    Certificate of Completion

    Complete this entire course to earn a CISO Competency - Risk Certificate of Completion

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    Foundations
    Focused on the core IT competencies that cybersecurity professionals need to succeed in any career path.
    Defensive Security
    Focused on trying to find the bad guys. Topics such as threat intelligence, threat hunting, network monitoring, incident response. Defensive security is a reactive measure taken once a vulnerability is found through prevention, detection, and response.
    Engineering and Operations
    Focused on building and operating information systems.
    Governance, Risk, and Compliance
    Focused on the core IT competencies that cybersecurity professionals need to succeed in any career path.
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    Focused on program design and oversight. Covers project and program management.
    Offensive Security
    Focused on validating security controls by trying to break them (i.e. penetration testing or ethical hacking). Topics such as Kali Linux, metasploit, scanning, and privilege escalation. Offensive security seeks out the problem or vulnerability through ethical hacking and finds a solution to disable the operation.
    Offensive Security
    Focused on the core IT competencies that cybersecurity professionals need to succeed in any career path.
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