Certified Information Security Manager

Overview:

This course will prepare you for the certification exam given by ISACA, will allow you to gain a wide set of knowledge to manage risk,
handle the incident and support enterprise information security programs.
You will have all the required skills to face the most difficult information security problems.

Content:

Information Security Governance

• Establish and maintain an information security strategy, and align the strategy with corporate governance
• Establish and maintain an information security governance framework
• Establish and maintain information security policies
• Develop a business case
• Identify internal and external influences to the organization
• Obtain management commitment
• Define roles and responsibilities
• Establish, monitor, evaluate, and report metrics

Information Risk Management and Compliance

• Establish a process for information asset classification and ownership
• Identify legal, regulatory, organizational, and other applicable requirements
• Ensure those risk assessments, vulnerability assessments, and threat analyses are conducted periodically
• Determine appropriate risk treatment options
• Evaluate information security controls
• Identify the gap between current and desired risk levels
• Integrate information risk management into business and IT processes
• Monitor existing risk
• Report noncompliance and other changes in information risk

Information Security Program Development and Management

• Establish and maintain the information security program
• Ensure alignment between the information security program and other business functions
• Identify, acquire, manage, and define requirements for internal and external resources
• Establish and maintain information security architectures
• Establish, communicate, and maintain organizational information security standards, procedures, and guidelines
• Establish and maintain a program for information security awareness and training
• Integrate information security requirements into organizational processes
• Integrate information security requirements into contracts and activities of third parties
• Establish, monitor, and periodically report program management and operational metrics

Information Security Incident Management

• Establish and maintain an organizational definition of, and severity hierarchy for, information security incidents
• Establish and maintain an incident response plan
• Develop and implement processes to ensure the timely identification of information security incidents
• Establish and maintain processes to investigate and document information security incidents
• Establish and maintain incident escalation and notification processes
• Organize, train, and equip teams to effectively respond to information security incidents
• Test and review the incident response plan periodically
• Establish and maintain communication plans and processes
• Conduct post-incident reviews
• Establish and maintain integration among the incident response plan, disaster recovery plan, and business continuity plan

Key Benefits:

 At program completion; participants will be able to:

Audience:

• Information security professionals
• Information security auditors and consultants
• Information security managers
• Security policy writers, privacy officers
• Network administrators and security engineers.
• Individuals who want to advance their careers in IT security or who are interested in earning a CISM certification.