Certified Information Security Manager (CISM®)
Course number: CGICISM40
Prepare for the CISM exam with our best-of-breed prep course. The CISM certification program was developed by ISACA for experienced information security management professionals who have experience developing and managing information security programs and who understand the programs relationship to the overall business goals. The CISM exam consists of 200 multiple-choice questions that cover the four CISM domains. The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has accredited the CISM certification program under ISO/IEC 17024:2003, General Requirements for Bodies Operating Certification Systems of Persons.
This course supports a certification that is a DoD Approved 8570 Baseline Certification and meets DoD 8140/8570 training requirements.
What You’ll Learn
In-depth coverage of the four domains required to pass the CISM exam:
- Information Security Governance
- Information Risk Management and Compliance
- Information Security Program Development and Management
- Information Security Incident Management
Requirements for CISM Certification:
Five years of experience in information security within the last decade, with three years of management experience in three or more of the following core areas:
- Information security management
- Information risk management and compliance
- Information security program development and management
- Information security incident management
Prerequisites
To ensure your success, we recommend that students taking this course should have professional experience in information security in at least one of the following areas:
- Information security governance
- Information risk management
- Information security program development
- Information security program management
- Incident management and response
Target Audience
Experienced information security managers and those who have information security management responsibilities, including IT consultants, auditors, managers, security policy writers, privacy officers, information security officers, network administrators
Certification
CISM by ANSI
Exam
CISM Exam
Accreditation
Post class completion, students can appear for the CISM exam.
Course Outline
- Develop an information security strategy, aligned with business goals and directives
- Establish and maintain an information security governance framework
- Integrate information security governance into corporate governance
- Develop and maintain information security policies
- Develop business cases to support investments in information security
- Identify internal and external influences to the organization
- Gain ongoing commitment from senior leadership and other stakeholders
- Define, communicate and monitor information security responsibilities
- Establish internal and external reporting and communication channels
- Establish and/or maintain a process for information asset classification to ensure that measures taken to protect assets are proportional to their business value
- Identify legal, regulatory, organizational and other applicable requirements to manage the risk of noncompliance to acceptable levels
- Ensure that risk assessments, vulnerability assessments and threat analyses are conducted consistently, and at appropriate times, to identify and assess risk to the organization’s information
- Identify, recommend or implement appropriate risk treatment/response options to manage risk to acceptable levels based on organizational risk appetite
- Determine whether information security controls are appropriate and effectively manage risk to an acceptable level
- Facilitate the integration of information risk management into business and IT processes to enable a consistent and comprehensive information risk management program across the organization
- Integrate information risk management into business and IT processes
- Monitor for internal and external factors (e.g., threat landscape, cybersecurity, geopolitical, regulatory change) that may require reassessment of risk to ensure that changes to existing or new risk scenarios are identified and managed appropriately
- Report noncompliance and other changes in information risk to facilitate the risk management decision-making process
- Ensure that information security risk is reported to senior management to support an understanding of potential impact on the organizational goals and objectives
- Develop a security program, aligned with information security strategy
- Ensure alignment between the information security program and other business functions
- Establish and maintain requirements for all resources to execute the IS program
- Establish and maintain IS architectures to execute the IS program
- Develop documentation that ensures compliance with policies
- Develop 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
- Develop procedures (metrics) to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of the IS program
- Compile reports to key stakeholders on overall effectiveness of the IS program and the underlying business processes in order to communicate security performance.
- Define (types of) information security incidents
- Establish an incident response plan
- Develop processes for timely identification of information security incidents
- Develop processes to investigate and document information security incidents
- Develop incident escalation and communication processes
- Establish teams that effectively respond to information security incidents
- Test and review the incident response plan
- Establish communication plans and processes
- Determine the root cause of IS incidents
- Align incident response plan with DRP and BCP
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