Course Outline
The curriculum encompasses training objectives, module details, allocated learning hours, and a recommended reading list:
Access the current syllabus (PDF)
Course summary:
1. Concepts and frameworks of information risk management
- The necessity of information risk management (information lifecycle)
- Understanding risk within the organizational context
2. Fundamentals of information risk management
- Core principles of information security
- Confidentiality, integrity, and availability (CIA)
- Accountability, non-repudiation, authenticity, privacy, secrecy, identification, resilience, and reliability
- Distinguishing between information security, cyber security, information risk management, and information assurance
- Standards and best practice guidelines for information risk management
- The information risk management process
- The four stages of information risk management: establishing context; risk assessment (including identification, analysis, evaluation, and treatment); communication and consultation; and monitoring and review
- Risk management methodologies
- Terminology and definitions in information risk
- Defining key terms such as threats, hazards, vulnerabilities, proximity, likelihood, probability, and risk.
- Strategic risk treatment options, including risk avoidance or termination; risk reduction or modification; risk transference or sharing; risk acceptance or tolerance; and risk retention
3. Building an information risk management programme
- Requirements for an effective information risk management programme
- The Plan-Do-Check-Act model, also known as the Deming Cycle
- Formulating a strategic approach to information risk management
- Principles of information classification
4. Risk identification
- Processes for identifying information assets (both tangible and intangible)
- Performing business impact analysis
- Carrying out threat and vulnerability assessments
5. Risk assessment
- Conducting risk analysis
- Differences between and appropriate applications of qualitative, quantitative, and semi-qualitative risk analysis
- Distinguishing between generic and specific risk analyses
- Developing and utilizing risk matrices
- Performing risk evaluation
6. Risk treatment
- Explaining risk treatment options, controls, and processes
- The four strategic risk treatment options: risk avoidance or termination; risk reduction or modification; risk transference or sharing; risk acceptance or toleration; and risk retention
- Purposes of tactical risk treatment controls: prevention; detection; correction; direction; elimination; impact minimization; monitoring and awareness; deterrence; and recovery
- The three types of operational risk treatment controls: procedural/people-based; physical/environmental; and technical/logical
- Understanding the application of risk treatment plans
7. Monitoring and review
- Explaining information risk monitoring practices
- Conducting information risk reviews
8. Presenting risks and business cases
- Reporting and presenting the progress of a risk management programme
- Presentation of business cases
NobleProg is a BCS Accredited Training Provider.
This course will be led by an expert NobleProg trainer certified by BCS.
The fee covers the delivery of the complete course syllabus by an approved BCS trainer and the BCS CIRM exam. The exam can be taken remotely at your convenience and is centrally invigilated by BCS. Upon successfully passing the exam (a multiple-choice format requiring a minimum score of 65%), participants will receive the accredited BCS Practitioner Certificate in Information Risk Management (CIRM).
Requirements
While there are no formal entry prerequisites, participants are expected to possess a foundational understanding of information assurance.
Candidates will benefit from familiarizing themselves with regulations that impact information risk management, such as Data Protection or Freedom of Information laws. This qualification is specifically tailored for Information Risk Managers and any professionals responsible for information management across both public and private sectors.
Testimonials (4)
Really enjoyed the topics covered and the way that the trainer ran the session
Richard
Course - BCS Practitioner Certificate in Data Protection
The trainer was helpful..
Attila - Lifial
Course - Compliance and the Management of Compliance Risk
1. The BCS test exam questions were often incoherent or not related to the syllabus - which appears to be a trait of BCS course and exams 2. the subject matter was taught reading powerpoint slides full of text - the BCS should be providing at least some diagrammatic content and other visual aids especially as many people learn in very different ways - more than just reading text.
john - UKHO
Course - BCS Practitioner Certificate in Information Assurance Architecture (CIAA)
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