Governance, Risk, and Compliance

This course provides an overview of governance, risk, and compliance. It focuses on the importance of GRC, identifying GRC concerns, and ways to mitigate those concerns.

• GRC Overview
• In this lesson, we’ll be outlining the basic course structure and discussing the prerequisites that you should possess before taking the course.
• Introduction to Governance, Risk, and Compliance
• During this lesson, we will lay the groundwork for the rest of the course by developing a definition for Security GRC and briefly introducing how GRC roles function today.
• Governance
• This lesson focuses on the role of security governance. This is what puts the “G” in GRC.
• Risk
• In this lesson we’ll learn how risk management has evolved over time into today’s security risk management practice and explore some of the tools risk managers use.
• Compliance
• Compliance deals with a relatively structured approach to ensuring organizations meet their obligations to security standards through their security controls and practices.
• Audit Management
• The lesson focuses on ensuring that audits go smoothly by developing an understanding of audit management fundamentals and how GRC professionals should plan for and remediate audit results.
• SwiftTech Report
• Apply the skills you have acquired to analyze data provided about a fictional technology company and create fundamental components of the company’s GRC program.