About This Course
1. Provide students with detailed instruction, case studies, examples, frameworks, and guidance for implementing the concepts essential to combining cyber security and business continuity into an effective Cyber Resilience program.
2. Prepare students with, activities, exercises, and actionable recommendations to represent an appropriate “value proposition” to an organization’s executive management that will help to ensure any investment necessary to step up to a strong Cyber Resilience program.
3. Have students engage in cyber, response, and recovery exercises to help understand the issues that they will face.
4. Share experiences with other professionals.
5. Prepare to pass the Cyber Resilience Examination, so students can take the next steps toward being certified as a DRI International Certified Cyber Resilience Professional.
Course Information
Course Curriculum
– Stepping up from cybersecurity into cyber resilience
– Types of recent cyber threats and cyberattacks
– The cause-and-effect relationship and how cybersecurity affects business continuity
– NIST 2.0, the cybersecurity framework
– The CIA triad and cyber resilience
– The problem, the challenge, and the approach
– The value of cyber resilience
– Achieving cyber resilience with cultural change
– Cyber resilience minimum requirements
– The powerful business impact analysis aligned with cybersecurity
– Integrating cybersecurity and business continuity
– Cyber insurance
– Cybersecurity framework and regulations
– Cyber resilience planning
– Adapting the cybersecurity framework
– Creating effective
– – Preparation and identification plans
– – Protection and detection plans
– – Response and recovery plans
– Effective collaboration between cyber incident response and business recovery of operations
– Describe the importance of regular cyber awareness training
– Understand how cybersecurity and business continuity both work with reputation management
– Creating and maintaining your plans
– Creating effective crisis communication plans for cyber incidents
– Discuss how training and awareness initiatives should be employed to embed cyber resilience within the entire organization and ensure that personnel are ready to respond and recover
– Cyberattack tabletop
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All You Need to Know
The ACRP certification is for individuals with less than two (2) years of cyber resilience, business continuity, and/or cybersecurity experience. Applicants must complete a Cyber Resilience for the Business Continuity Professional course and have successfully passed the Cyber Resilience Examination.