By the end
What you'll build
- Explain confidentiality, integrity and availability using examples from your own work
- Describe how a risk-based approach differs from a checklist approach to security
- Recognise the main families of security controls and what each is for
- Answer a customer security questionnaire accurately without overstating your position
- Identify which of your daily activities produce security evidence
- Explain what a certification audit assesses and what it does not
Curriculum
What's inside
5 modules · 29 lessons
- 01
Security as a managed system
6 lessons- Confidentiality, integrity and availability with real examples
- Why security needs a system, not just tools
- Assets, information and where value sits
- Governance, roles and accountability
- What certification means and what it does not
- + 1 more lesson
- 02
Risk-based thinking
6 lessons- How risk drives every security decision worth making
- Threats, vulnerabilities and likelihood in plain terms
- Risk treatment options and their trade-offs
- Risk appetite explained for non-specialists
- Why perfect security is the wrong goal
- + 1 more lesson
- 03
The control landscape
6 lessons- The four control themes and what each one is trying to prevent
- People controls: joiners, movers, leavers
- Physical and environmental controls
- Technological controls at a conceptual level
- Supplier and third-party considerations
- + 1 more lesson
- 04
Living with the system
6 lessons- Answering a security questionnaire honestly and precisely
- Evidence you generate without noticing
- Incidents: recognising and reporting
- Working with auditors as an interviewee
- Security and privacy: related but not the same
- + 1 more lesson
- 05
Practice and check
5 lessons- Naming what is at stakematch pairs
- Answering a customer security questionnairesequence order
- Fundamentals in plain termsfill blank
- The encryption questionscenario
- Course quizquiz
The shape of it
How this course works
Short lessons
29 lessons across 5 modules, each small enough to finish in one sitting.
Practice as you go
Every lesson ends with a small space for what you noticed — the doing is the learning.
Progress you can see
Your progress is saved lesson by lesson, ready whenever you come back.
Ready when you are.
Make an account and this course opens up — your progress is saved from the very first lesson.