Assessing Cyber Risk

Assessing Cyber Risk provides a practical framework for identifying, evaluating, and managing cybersecurity risks across modern organizations. Rather than treating risk management as a compliance exercise, this course emphasizes structured decision-making that helps organizations protect critical assets, reduce uncertainty, and support informed business decisions.

You’ll begin by learning how to establish the foundation of an effective risk management program, including defining scope, building comprehensive inventories of assets, data, processes, and vendors, and understanding the relationship between threats, vulnerabilities, and security controls. From there, you’ll develop the skills to identify meaningful risks, distinguish between inherent and residual risk, and prioritize issues using practical likelihood and impact analysis.

The course also explores third-party and vendor risk management, teaching you how to evaluate vendors throughout their lifecycle—from initial onboarding and due diligence to continuous monitoring, contract management, and offboarding. You’ll learn how to assess SaaS and cloud providers, evaluate security control domains, interpret assessment evidence, and make informed go, conditional-go, or no-go decisions based on residual risk.

Finally, you’ll learn how to move from analysis to action by selecting appropriate risk treatment strategies, documenting exceptions, communicating risk to stakeholders, and producing clear reports that support governance and executive decision-making. Throughout the course, you’ll apply practical frameworks and real-world scenarios that demonstrate how effective risk management strengthens security, resilience, and business continuity.

By the end of the course, you’ll be able to assess cyber risks systematically, prioritize the issues that matter most, evaluate third-party security, and develop practical treatment plans that balance security, compliance, and business objectives.