ISC2, the world’s leading nonprofit member organization for cybersecurity professionals – today officially announced the launch of fourteen new Express Courses, each one designed to make cybersecurity skills more accessible moving forward..
According to certain reports, these skills will be taught by professionals with in-depth learning experiences, designed meticulously around the structure of their demanding schedules.
To understand the significance of such a development, we must take into account a recent ISC2 study, where it was revealed that skills in cloud computing security and risk assessment, analysis and management are among the most in-demand technical capabilities needed in the cybersecurity profession.
Taking a deeper view of what courses the company is bringing to meet this need, we begin from Foundations of Engaging SETA (Security Education, Training and Awareness), which offers skills for developing a robust security culture across an organization’s team beyond awareness into active learning.
Next up, we have a 101 on Planning a SETA Program that includes considerations, resources, and support structures needed to facilitate a strong security culture across an organization.
Another detail worth a mention is rooted in ISC2’s bid to focus on Implementing and Reviewing SETA Program. The stated course basically offers you ways to design, implement, and assess the effectiveness of your organization’s security posture programs.
If not that, participants can also come expecting to learn about virtualization and container technologies in cloud security, making up a foundational course on cloud security created for all levels of cyber professionals.
Moving on, ISC2 further plans to offer a course committed to Evaluating Cloud Service Provider Agreements and Service Level Agreements (SLAs), offering an insight into how to evaluate cloud service agreements, and therefore, ensure they support strategic objectives.
Then, there is a program geared towards Managing Stakeholders and Engaging Development Teams: This one is understood to be an intermediate course on managing software security developers or designing cybersecurity strategy.
“These Express Courses are part of our commitment to empowering our members to stay ahead of trending topics and ensure they are advancing their own professional development,” said Casey Marks, Chief Operating Officer at ISC2. “The flexibility of these courses enables cybersecurity professionals to continue their professional development by learning about new technologies and practices, and by identifying areas in which they require additional education.”
Turning our attention towards the courses ISC2 will offer to advance data protection. The assortment in question packs together a course on Complying with Regulations, Laws, Standards, and Frameworks, a dynamic exercise to identify best practice when working towards regulatory compliance.
Joining the mix would be a course designed to assess Impact, Analysis and Management of Violations, a course which offers you an experiential look at a fictional company managing impacts of violating a privacy or data protection regulation.
You can also learn Classification, Categorization and Security of Data through a course made up with best practices for understanding data and its significance
Beyond that, we have a course revolving around Repairing Policies and Procedures. Here, participants can enjoy an interactive scenario of a cybersecurity team as they examine policies, procedures and documentation requirements post-breach.
Hold on, we still haven’t touched upon the contingent of courses meant to strengthen GRC knowhow.
The first one here is being presented under the name of Translating Cyber Risk into Business Language for Effective Leadership, which carves out an overview of how to communicate with organizational leadership, including the board.
ISC2 further offers you a plan to navigate cybersecurity frameworks, bolstering your knowledge on which cybersecurity frameworks are relevant for maintaining a particular organization’s security posture.
Rounding up highlights would be the CNI and OT Standards course, where ISC2 provides definition-based overview of Critical National Infrastructure (CNI), Operational Technology (OT), and their security-related concerns.
Founded in 1989, ISC2’s rise up the ranks stems from aiding the influence, diversity and vitality of the cybersecurity profession through advocacy, expertise and workforce empowerment. The company’s excellence in what it does can also be understood once you consider it presently serves more than 265,000 certified members and associates.
