PACE NONCREDIT COURSE:
ISACA CISM Training Boot Camp
Areas of Study
Course Type
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Overview
Overview
| Duration: 5 days
This CISM Boot Camp is designed for experienced information security managers and other professionals who manage, design, oversee or assess an enterprise’s information security.
The training prepares you for the CISM certification exam by testing your knowledge and your ability to apply it to real-world scenarios. You will gain in-depth knowledge of security governance, risk management, security program development and management, and security incident management.
The boot camp has been updated to align with the new CISM job practice areas and is designed to fully prepare you to pass the challenging CISM exam. You will receive an exam voucher for the ISACA CISM certification exam with your enrollment.
Our Certification Success Program, paired with our provided prep materials, boot camp sessions, and post-work, is designed to ease any concerns you may have when taking the certification exam. If your first attempt is unsuccessful, this program provides peace of mind that you may be eligible to take the certification exam a second time (if needed) at no additional fee.
*To qualify for a second certification exam voucher, students must:
- Attend at least 85% of each day of class
- Score a 90% or higher on their final practice exam
- Take the first exam within 90 days of class completion
- Upload your exam failure notice from your first exam attempt
Topics
Curriculum
- Information Security Governance
- Information security concepts
- Relationship between information security and business operations
- Techniques used to secure senior management commitment and support of information security management
- Methods of integrating information security governance into the overall enterprise governance framework
- Practices associated with an overall policy directive that captures senior management
- Level direction and expectations for information security in laying the foundation for information security management within an organization
- An information security steering group function
- Information security management roles, responsibilities and organizational structure
- Areas of governance (e.g., risk management, data classification management, network security, system access)
- Centralized and decentralized approaches to coordinating information security
- Legal and regulatory issues associated with internet businesses, global transmissions and transborder data flows (e.g., privacy, tax laws and tariffs, data import/export restrictions, restrictions on cryptography, warranties, patents, copyrights, trade secrets, national security)
- Common insurance policies and imposed conditions (e.g., crime or fidelity insurance, business interruption)
- Requirements for the content and retention of business records and compliance
- Process for linking policies to enterprise business objectives
- Function and content of essential elements of CISM details
- Techniques for developing an information security process improvement model for sustainable and repeatable information security policies and procedures
- Information security process improvement and its relationship to traditional process management, security architecture development and modeling, and security infrastructure
- Generally accepted international standards for information security management and related process improvement models
- The key components of cost benefit analysis and enterprise transformation/ migration plans (e.g., architectural alignment, organizational positioning, change management, benchmarking, market/competitive analysis)
- Methodology for business case development and computing enterprise value propositions
- Risk Management
- Information resources used in support of business processes
- Information resource valuation methodologies
- Information classification
- The principles of development of baselines and their relationship to risk-based assessments of control requirements
- Life-cycle-based risk management principles and practices
- Threats, vulnerabilities and exposures associated with confidentiality, integrity and availability of information resources
- Quantitative and qualitative methods used to determine sensitivity and criticality of information resources and the impact of adverse events
- Use of gap analysis to assess generally accepted standards of good practice for information security management against current state
- Recovery time objectives (RTO) for information resources and how to determine RTO
- RTO and how it relates to business continuity and contingency planning objectives and processes
- Risk mitigation strategies used in defining security requirements for information resources supporting business applications
- Cost benefit analysis techniques in assessing options for mitigating risks threats and exposures to acceptable levels
- Managing and reporting status of identified risks
- Information Security Program Development & Management
- Methods to develop an implementation plan that meets security requirements identified in risk analyses
- Project management methods and techniques
- The components of an information security governance framework for integrating security principles, practices, management and awareness into all aspects and all levels of the enterprise
- Security baselines and configuration management in the design and management of business applications and the infrastructure
- Information security architectures (e.g., single sign-on, rules-based as opposed to list-based system access control for systems, limited points of systems administration)
- Information security technologies (e.g., cryptographic techniques and digital signatures, enabling management to select appropriate controls)
- Security procedures and guidelines for business processes and infrastructure activities
- Systems development life cycle methodologies (e.g., traditional SDLC, prototyping)
- Planning, conducting, reporting and follow-up of security testing
- Assessing and authorizing the compliance of business applications and infrastructure to the enterprise’s information security governance framework
- Types, benefits and costs of physical, administrative and technical controls
- Planning, designing, developing, testing and implementing information security requirements into an enterprise’s business processes
- Security metrics design, development, and implementation
- Acquisition management methods and techniques (e.g., evaluation of vendor service level agreements, preparation of contracts)
- How to interpret information security policies into operational use
- Information security administration process and procedures
- Methods for managing the implementation of the enterprise’s information security program through third parties, including trading partners and security services providers
- Continuous monitoring of security activities in the enterprise’s infrastructure and business applications
- Methods used to manage success/failure in information security investments through data collection and periodic review of key performance indicators
- Change and configuration management activities
- Information security management due diligence activities and reviews of the infrastructure
- Liaison activities with internal/external assurance providers performing information security reviews
- Due diligence activities, reviews and related standards for managing and controlling access to information resources
- External vulnerability reporting sources, which provide information that may require changes to the information security in applications and infrastructure
- Events affecting security baselines that may require risk reassessments and changes to information security requirements in security plans, test plans and reperformance
- Information security problem management practices
- Information security manager facilitative roles as change agents, educators and consultants
- Ways in which cultural and socially acceptable differences affect the behavior of staff
- Activities that can change cultural and socially acceptable behavior of staff
- Methods and techniques for security awareness training and education
- Information Security Incident Management
- Components of an incident response capability
- Information security emergency management practices (e.g., production change control activities, development of computer emergency response team)
- Disaster recovery planning and business recovery processes
- Disaster recovery testing for infrastructure and critical business applications
- Escalation processes for effective security management
- Intrusion detection policies and processes
- Help desk processes for identifying security incidents reported by users and distinguishing them from other issues dealt with the help desks
- Notification process in managing security incidents and recovery (e.g., automated notice and recovery mechanisms in response to virus alerts in a real-time fashion)
- Requirements for collecting and presenting evidence: rules for evidence, admissibility of evidence, quality and completeness of evidence
- Post-incident reviews and follow-up procedures
Requirements/Prerequisites
Course Requirements
Requirements: Hardware Requirements: Software Requirements: Other: Instructional Material Requirements: The student materials required for this course are included in enrollment and available online.
