Cybersecurity Risk Management

Programme Summary

Translate cybersecurity concerns into business risk decisions with clear evidence and accountability. Participants identify important services, analyse threat scenarios, evaluate controls and prioritise treatment options. A structured organisational case develops a risk register, target improvement priorities and management reporting, enabling security and business professionals to explain uncertainty, assign ownership and track whether agreed safeguards reduce exposure.

Training Objectives

1 Connect cybersecurity risk with organisational objectives; 2 Develop consistent scenario and control evaluation methods; 3 Strengthen treatment prioritisation and accountable risk decisions; 4 Improve communication of exposure uncertainty and assurance; 5 Support coordinated cybersecurity governance and performance review.

Learning Outcomes

1 Define critical services and relevant threat scenarios; 2 Evaluate existing controls against plausible business impacts; 3 Prepare a justified cybersecurity risk register; 4 Select treatment actions and residual risk owners; 5 Present measurable priorities to business decision makers.

Target Audience

Cybersecurity Risk Managers; Information Security Managers; IT Risk Analysts; Enterprise Risk Officers; Technology Managers; Security Governance Officers.

Target Industries

Financial Services; Technology Services; Telecommunications; Healthcare Services; Utilities; E Commerce.

Course Contents

• Module 1 Cybersecurity Risk and Business Governance: Business objectives and critical service dependencies; Risk appetite authority and decision accountability; Security governance and enterprise risk interfaces.
• Module 2 Scope Assets and Business Services: Identify services data systems and suppliers; Map dependencies and important information flows; Define assessment boundaries and assumptions.
• Module 3 Threat Scenarios and Exposure: Threat events weaknesses and enabling conditions; Use relevant intelligence and operational evidence; Avoid unsupported likelihood and impact assertions.
• Module 4 Assessment Criteria and Risk Analysis: Likelihood consequence and uncertainty criteria; Qualitative scoring and comparison limitations; Document cause event and business consequence.
• Module 5 Control Evaluation and Assurance Evidence: Preventive detective and responsive safeguards; Design effectiveness and operating evidence; Control gaps dependencies and compensating measures.
• Module 6 Cybersecurity Outcomes and Current State: Govern identify protect detect respond recover; Assess relevant current practices and gaps; Connect security outcomes to business priorities.
• Module 7 Risk Treatment and Prioritisation: Reduce avoid transfer and accept decisions; Feasibility cost dependencies and expected benefits; Prioritise actions using business exposure.
• Module 8 Third Party and Supply Chain Risk: Provider access dependencies and concentration; Contractual safeguards and verification evidence; Changes incidents and continued supplier monitoring.
• Module 9 Risk Acceptance and Exception Management: Authorised decisions and documented rationale; Time limited exceptions and compensating controls; Escalation review dates and expiry conditions.
• Module 10 Metrics Monitoring and Changing Risk: Indicators of exposure control performance and progress; New services threats and change triggers; Risk register maintenance and assurance coordination.
• Module 11 Management Communication and Investment: Present scenarios impacts and uncertainty clearly; Explain treatment options and resource needs; Record decisions and accountable follow up.
• Module 12 Cybersecurity Risk Case: Develop a focused business risk register; Propose target improvements and treatment priorities; Defend residual risk and reporting recommendations.

Assessment

• 60 single best answer questions, including applied scenarios; one mark per question.
• 90 minute invigilated digital examination with identity verification. Approved accessibility adjustments preserve the assessed competence.
• Supplied reference sheets permitted; external AI, messaging and unapproved internet assistance prohibited.
• Individual applied assessment (45 minutes): Develop three business relevant cyber risk scenarios, evaluate supplied control evidence and present prioritised treatments, residual risk ownership and management reporting measures.
• Assessment criteria: Coherent scenarios and evidence based risk reasoning; Suitable control evaluation and feasible treatment priorities; Clear ownership uncertainty and management communication.
• Pass each component separately: 45/60 written marks (75%) and at least 70% on the applied task.
• Individual results and feedback are provided. One reassessment may follow coaching under the published enrolment terms.

Certification

• Successful learners receive a TQCSI Arabia digital Certificate of Successful Completion.
• The certificate records the learner name, exact programme title, teaching hours, completion date and unique verification reference.
• Verified identity, full attendance and separate written and applied passes are required; all mandatory critical criteria must be met.
• Proposed issue target: within 30 calendar days of approved results and settlement of applicable fees.
• Records assessed cybersecurity risk management skills; it does not confer independent risk certification or authority to accept organisational risk.
• Attendance confirmation may record completed hours for unsuccessful learners; it does not certify successful completion.

Programme Profile

Number of daysNumber of daysNumber of days

333

Total teaching hoursTotal teaching hoursTotal teaching hours

18 hours; breaks, pre course work and formal final assessments excluded.18 hours; breaks, pre course work and formal final assessments excluded.18 hours; breaks, pre course work and formal final assessments excluded.

Delegates allowedDelegates allowedDelegates allowed

Maximum 20 delegates.Maximum 20 delegates.Maximum 20 delegates.

Training prerequisitesTraining prerequisitesTraining prerequisites

Working knowledge of basic cybersecurity controls and organisational information systems is required. Risk management experience is recommended.Working knowledge of basic cybersecurity controls and organisational information systems is required. Risk management experience is recommended.Working knowledge of basic cybersecurity controls and organisational information systems is required. Risk management experience is recommended.

Pre course assignment and assessmentPre course assignment and assessmentPre course assignment and assessment

Complete a 45 minute risk and security diagnostic and review the fictional organisation service and control inventory.Complete a 45 minute risk and security diagnostic and review the fictional organisation service and control inventory.Complete a 45 minute risk and security diagnostic and review the fictional organisation service and control inventory.

End of course assessmentEnd of course assessmentEnd of course assessment

60 question written exam (90 minutes) and individual applied task (45 minutes).60 question written exam (90 minutes) and individual applied task (45 minutes).60 question written exam (90 minutes) and individual applied task (45 minutes).

Passing criteriaPassing criteriaPassing criteria

75% written and 70% applied, passed separately; full attendance.75% written and 70% applied, passed separately; full attendance.75% written and 70% applied, passed separately; full attendance.