Data is at the core of all organizations. Ensuring its on-going protection, operational security and maintenance in an evolving compliance environment as well as a rapidly changing threat landscape are essential functions for all departments, particularly the cybersecurity team.
Alongside the three GRC and Leadership Express Courses released earlier this month, ISC2 has also published five new express courses across key elements of data protection, covering incident management and analysis, data classification, compliance, policies and procedures, as well as developing a data protection organizational culture. Together, these five courses will further prepare participants to manage, develop and apply best practice to a range of essential data protection activities within an organization. Each course is worth 1 CPE credit with members and associates receiving special pricing.
Express Course: Impact, Analysis and Management of Violations
Understanding and managing cybersecurity events is a critical function. Without ongoing and deliberate privacy practices and visibility in place, organizations could find themselves in violation of global laws and regulations. For this course, you will a fictional company as it experiences the business impacts of violating a privacy or data protection regulation, learns more about the data a gap analysis can generate and reflects on the importance of maintaining a clear picture of organization data.
Express Course: Classification, Categorization and Security of Data
Understanding the data you have, its significance, use and security is essential for an organization to ensure regulatory compliance and resilience.
To illustrate this challenge, you will follow a cybersecurity team as it dives into its current data classification, categorization and security practices. You will assist with proper data classification, enabling the team to apply appropriate security measures and relevant compliance requirements. You will also experience how to interpret data flow diagrams to visualize, analyze and communicate the intricate flow of data within an organization. By mastering these and associated skills, you will be equipped to contribute to improving data efficiency, security and compliance, supporting your own organization in managing its most valuable asset.
Express Course: Complying with Regulations, Laws, Standards and Frameworks
Data protection should be at the forefront of all security practices. Knowledge of global data protection and privacy regulations, as well as privacy frameworks is essential for professionals in today's globalized business environment. For this course, you will follow a cybersecurity team through a regulation and framework exercise to identify best practices when working toward regulatory compliance.
This understanding and skill set will help you with delivering compliance with regional regulations and defending regulated data such as personal information across borders, minimizing legal risks and enhancing organizational resilience and reputation.
Express Course: Repairing Policies and Procedures
Equip yourself with the skills needed to repair and enhance your organization’s data protection strategies. You will do this by following a cybersecurity team as they examine policies, procedures and documentation requirements to refine the solutions required to repair an organization’s reputation after a breach.
Learn how to examine and classify various policies, procedures and documentation requirements; examine a data protection impact assessment and how to use risk ranking to prioritize efforts; and implement solutions to bring the organization into compliance.
Express Course: Building an Organizational Culture
This course follows a cybersecurity team as they finalize plans to put more resources into protecting privacy. You will gain valuable knowledge to help secure buy-in from stakeholders across the organization, mitigate privacy risks and ensure ongoing compliance and develop a culture of security best practice.
You will learn first-hand from the experiences of the team as they commit to keeping their client data safe, ensuring ongoing regulatory compliance and incorporating privacy by design into business practices.
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