Mastering ISO 27005 Risk Management A Comprehensive Guide for Compliance and Security Leaders
You’re under pressure. Stakeholders demand deeper insight into your organisation’s security posture, regulators require demonstrable processes, and you’re navigating an ever-multiplying threat landscape - all while balancing compliance deadlines and limited bandwidth. One misstep in your risk assessment can delay certifications, spike audit costs, or worse - lead to a breach with lasting reputational damage. You don't just need ISO 27005 compliance. You need mastery. You need to lead with authority, speak the language of risk fluently, and align your program with the strategic vision of the business. The breakthrough comes with Mastering ISO 27005 Risk Management A Comprehensive Guide for Compliance and Security Leaders - a precise, executive-level blueprint that transforms uncertainty into action. This is not theoretical fluff. It’s a proven system that takes you from fragmented understanding to board-ready confidence, with a complete, auditable risk methodology that you can implement immediately. Within three weeks, one past learner, a Security Governance Manager at a multinational financial institution, replaced their unreliable homegrown process with our ISO 27005-aligned framework. Their team reduced redundant risk assessments by 68%, and for the first time, passed their external certification audit with zero major non-conformities. This course doesn't just teach compliance. It arms you with the tools to build a repeatable, defensible, value-driven risk program that scales with your organisation and earns executive trust. Here’s how this course is structured to help you get there.Course Format & Delivery Details Self-paced. Immediate online access. Zero time zone conflicts. You begin the moment you enrol, progressing through the material at your own pace without deadlines, live calls, or mandatory attendance windows. This is on-demand, high-impact learning built for leaders with full calendars. Designed for Real-World Application and Confidence
The full programme is structured to deliver tangible results in 4 to 6 weeks, with most learners completing core implementation steps within the first 20 days. You’ll walk away in less than a month with a fully customisable risk assessment model, prioritisation matrix, and documentation templates ready for audit scrutiny. Lifetime Access & Continuous Updates
Enrol once, own it forever. You receive lifetime access to all course materials, including any future revisions, methodology refinements, or new templates introduced to align with evolving regulatory expectations - all at no additional cost. Your learning journey travels with you. Whether you’re working from your office, home, or on the move, the platform is mobile-friendly and accessible 24/7 from any device, anywhere in the world. Direct Instructor Guidance & Expert Support
You’re not learning in isolation. Enrolment includes access to structured instructor support via a dedicated feedback channel. Submit your risk treatment plans, documentation drafts, or process questions, and receive actionable insights for refinement - all within a professional framework that accelerates your mastery. Certificate of Completion – Issued by The Art of Service
Upon fulfilling the completion criteria, you’ll earn a Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service - a globally recognised credential trusted by compliance leaders across 95 countries. This certification is not a participation trophy. It verifies your practical understanding of ISO 27005 and signals to auditors, boards, and hiring managers that you operate at a professional standard. No Hidden Fees. No Surprises.
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Whether you’re a CISO overseeing enterprise risk, a GRC analyst building controls matrices, an IT auditor validating safeguards, or a consultant guiding clients through certification, this course is engineered for your success. This works even if: you’ve struggled with vague risk registers, lack of stakeholder buy-in, or inconsistent methodologies between departments. It works even if you’re new to ISO 27001 or transitioning from COBIT, NIST, or other frameworks. The structured progression, ready-to-adapt templates, and role-specific implementation tactics are designed to meet you where you are and elevate your impact. One Data Protection Officer in the healthcare sector told us: “I’d reviewed ISO 27005 three times before. This course made it click. I now have a process auditors actually praise - and it saved us over 140 hours in annual assessment effort.” You gain more than knowledge. You gain leverage, credibility, and peace of mind - backed by a complete risk management system and an ironclad guarantee.
Module 1: Foundations of ISO 27005 and Risk Management Excellence - Understanding the purpose and scope of ISO 27005
- How ISO 27005 supports ISO 27001 implementation and certification
- Differentiating between risk management frameworks and methodologies
- Key principles of effective information security risk management
- Defining risk criteria: likelihood, impact, and risk appetite
- Understanding risk context and its role in shaping assessments
- The lifecycle approach to risk management under ISO 27005
- Types of risk: strategic, operational, compliance, and reputational
- Roles and responsibilities in risk governance
- Building a risk-aware culture across departments
- Aligning risk management with business objectives
- The role of leadership and board-level oversight
- Why ad-hoc risk assessments fail in audits
- Common misconceptions about ISO 27005 compliance
- Integrating risk management into daily operations
Module 2: Establishing the Risk Management Framework - Designing a custom risk management framework for your organisation
- Documenting risk management policies and procedures
- Setting risk evaluation thresholds and acceptance levels
- Defining tolerable, acceptable, and unacceptable risk levels
- Creating risk statements with precision and clarity
- Selecting risk assessment methodologies: qualitative vs quantitative
- Choosing between asset-based, scenario-based, and threat-based approaches
- Standardising risk terminology across teams
- Integrating legal, regulatory, and contractual requirements
- Mapping risk ownership to organisational roles
- Linking risk decisions to business continuity planning
- Document control and version management for risk records
- Developing an internal risk communication plan
- Using risk registers as a living document
- Aligning with GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, and other data regulations
Module 3: Risk Identification – Systematic and Comprehensive - Identifying information assets: data, systems, hardware, people
- Inventory management for critical assets
- Asset classification and valuation techniques
- Mapping asset ownership and custodianship
- Identifying threats: internal, external, natural, and human-induced
- Threat modelling using STRIDE and other frameworks
- Identifying vulnerabilities in technical, procedural, and human controls
- Using checklists and templates for consistent identification
- Conducting stakeholder interviews for risk insight
- Workshop facilitation techniques for group risk identification
- Leveraging past incident data for proactive identification
- Vendor and third-party risk identification
- Cyber supply chain risk considerations
- Emerging risks: AI, cloud, and IoT exposure
- Documenting risk sources with audit-proof clarity
Module 4: Risk Analysis – Evaluating Likelihood and Impact - Selecting a consistent risk analysis method
- Developing a likelihood scale: frequency and probability
- Creating an impact scale: operational, financial, legal, reputational
- Building a 5x5 risk matrix with clear thresholds
- Analysing risk scenarios using realistic assumptions
- Challenging assumptions to avoid bias
- Using expert judgment ethically and transparently
- Detecting and correcting optimism bias in risk analysis
- Applying recognised standards to likelihood assessment
- Making impact assessments specific and measurable
- Scoring risks consistently across departments
- Handling low-probability, high-impact (black swan) events
- Revisiting and recalibrating analysis after new events
- Peer review processes for accuracy validation
- Documenting rationale behind each risk score
Module 5: Risk Evaluation – Prioritising What Matters - Defining risk treatment priorities based on business impact
- Comparing risks across departments and regions
- Creating a consolidated enterprise risk view
- Ranking risks using risk heat maps
- Setting escalation thresholds for leadership
- Determining which risks require immediate action
- Using cost-benefit analysis to guide decisions
- Prioritising risks affecting critical business functions
- Aligning risk rankings with strategic objectives
- Visualising risk portfolios for board presentations
- Avoiding risk fatigue through smart prioritisation
- Integrating risk evaluation with budget cycles
- Reporting top risks to audit and risk committees
- Distinguishing between inherent and residual risk
- Using risk evaluation to justify security investments
Module 6: Risk Treatment – Designing Effective Controls - Selecting risk treatment options: avoid, transfer, mitigate, accept
- Criteria for choosing the optimal treatment strategy
- Developing risk treatment plans with owners and deadlines
- Linking controls to ISO 27001 Annex A clauses
- Mapping controls to NIST, CIS, or other frameworks
- Creating bespoke controls when standards don’t apply
- Writing control objectives with measurable outcomes
- Assigning accountability using RACI matrices
- Budgeting for control implementation
- Creating action plans with milestones and KPIs
- Integrating controls into change management
- Documenting control rationale for auditors
- Ensuring controls are testable and sustainable
- Addressing control overlap and redundancy
- Using automation to enforce control consistency
Module 7: Risk Assessment Documentation and Audit Readiness - Structuring your risk assessment report for clarity
- Writing executive summaries for leadership
- Documenting risk identification sessions
- Formatting risk registers for easy updates
- Using standardised templates across assessments
- Version control for risk documents
- Retaining audit evidence for compliance
- Ensuring traceability from risk to control to test
- Proving due diligence in risk evaluation
- Presenting risk findings to internal and external auditors
- Preparing for certification audit questions
- Common non-conformities in risk assessment practices
- Using appendixes and references for completeness
- Creating appendices for technical risk scenarios
- Maintaining document confidentiality and integrity
Module 8: Monitoring, Review, and Continuous Improvement - Scheduling regular risk assessment reviews
- Setting triggers for ad-hoc reassessments
- Monitoring key risk indicators (KRIs)
- Using dashboards to track risk trends
- Reviewing control effectiveness quarterly
- Updating risk assessments after major incidents
- Incorporating findings from audits and tests
- Adapting to organisational changes: M&A, restructuring
- Updating risk context with new technology
- Obtaining management review sign-off
- Documenting decisions from review meetings
- Aligning risk reviews with ISO 27001 internal audits
- Using feedback loops for process improvement
- Establishing a risk review calendar
- Automating reminders for reassessment deadlines
Module 9: Advanced Risk Scenarios and Industry Applications - Risk assessment for cloud environments
- Assessing shared responsibility models
- Third-party vendor risk assessment process
- Onboarding and offboarding vendor risks
- Supply chain cyber risk modelling
- Risks in DevOps and CI/CD pipelines
- Securing containerised and serverless architectures
- Risk implications of AI and machine learning systems
- IoT device security risk evaluation
- Risks in legacy system maintenance
- Assessing remote and hybrid work environments
- Data sovereignty and cross-border data transfer risks
- Risk treatment for zero-trust implementation
- Phishing and social engineering risk scoring
- Insider threat identification and mitigation
Module 10: Integration with Broader Governances, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) - Integrating ISO 27005 with COBIT 2019
- Aligning with NIST Cybersecurity Framework
- Mapping ISO 27005 to SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria
- Connecting risk data to enterprise risk management (ERM)
- Feeding risk insights into business continuity plans
- Using risk data for cyber insurance underwriting
- Integrating with incident response planning
- Linking risk to security awareness training topics
- Sharing risk intelligence across departments
- Using risk data for executive dashboards
- Automating data flows between GRC tools
- Reducing duplication with centralised risk repositories
- Ensuring compliance with board reporting requirements
- Creating a unified risk language across functions
- Demonstrating risk maturity to stakeholders
Module 11: Practical Implementation Projects and Templates - Hands-on project: Conduct your first ISO 27005 risk assessment
- Template: Risk identification worksheet
- Template: Asset inventory and classification form
- Template: Threat and vulnerability register
- Template: 5x5 Risk Matrix with scoring guidance
- Template: Risk statement builder with examples
- Template: Inherent and residual risk tracker
- Template: Risk treatment plan with RACI matrix
- Template: Control implementation tracker
- Template: Risk assessment report (executive version)
- Template: Full technical risk report
- Template: Audit evidence pack for ISO 27001
- Template: Risk review meeting agenda
- Template: Risk escalation protocol
- Template: Third-party risk assessment questionnaire
Module 12: Certification Preparation and Career Advancement - How to use your course work for certification evidence
- Preparing for ISO 27001 Stage 1 and Stage 2 audits
- Answering common risk-related auditor questions
- Documenting risk treatment plan sign-off
- Demonstrating continual improvement of risk processes
- Using your Certificate of Completion in job applications
- Highlighting ISO 27005 expertise on LinkedIn and resumes
- Negotiating higher compensation with proven skills
- Expanding into roles: CISO, GRC Manager, Audit Lead
- Providing consulting value with a structured methodology
- Training your team using your course materials
- Building a personal library of reusable risk assets
- Pursuing advanced certifications with confidence
- Staying updated via The Art of Service resources
- Accessing community insights from fellow professionals
- Understanding the purpose and scope of ISO 27005
- How ISO 27005 supports ISO 27001 implementation and certification
- Differentiating between risk management frameworks and methodologies
- Key principles of effective information security risk management
- Defining risk criteria: likelihood, impact, and risk appetite
- Understanding risk context and its role in shaping assessments
- The lifecycle approach to risk management under ISO 27005
- Types of risk: strategic, operational, compliance, and reputational
- Roles and responsibilities in risk governance
- Building a risk-aware culture across departments
- Aligning risk management with business objectives
- The role of leadership and board-level oversight
- Why ad-hoc risk assessments fail in audits
- Common misconceptions about ISO 27005 compliance
- Integrating risk management into daily operations
Module 2: Establishing the Risk Management Framework - Designing a custom risk management framework for your organisation
- Documenting risk management policies and procedures
- Setting risk evaluation thresholds and acceptance levels
- Defining tolerable, acceptable, and unacceptable risk levels
- Creating risk statements with precision and clarity
- Selecting risk assessment methodologies: qualitative vs quantitative
- Choosing between asset-based, scenario-based, and threat-based approaches
- Standardising risk terminology across teams
- Integrating legal, regulatory, and contractual requirements
- Mapping risk ownership to organisational roles
- Linking risk decisions to business continuity planning
- Document control and version management for risk records
- Developing an internal risk communication plan
- Using risk registers as a living document
- Aligning with GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, and other data regulations
Module 3: Risk Identification – Systematic and Comprehensive - Identifying information assets: data, systems, hardware, people
- Inventory management for critical assets
- Asset classification and valuation techniques
- Mapping asset ownership and custodianship
- Identifying threats: internal, external, natural, and human-induced
- Threat modelling using STRIDE and other frameworks
- Identifying vulnerabilities in technical, procedural, and human controls
- Using checklists and templates for consistent identification
- Conducting stakeholder interviews for risk insight
- Workshop facilitation techniques for group risk identification
- Leveraging past incident data for proactive identification
- Vendor and third-party risk identification
- Cyber supply chain risk considerations
- Emerging risks: AI, cloud, and IoT exposure
- Documenting risk sources with audit-proof clarity
Module 4: Risk Analysis – Evaluating Likelihood and Impact - Selecting a consistent risk analysis method
- Developing a likelihood scale: frequency and probability
- Creating an impact scale: operational, financial, legal, reputational
- Building a 5x5 risk matrix with clear thresholds
- Analysing risk scenarios using realistic assumptions
- Challenging assumptions to avoid bias
- Using expert judgment ethically and transparently
- Detecting and correcting optimism bias in risk analysis
- Applying recognised standards to likelihood assessment
- Making impact assessments specific and measurable
- Scoring risks consistently across departments
- Handling low-probability, high-impact (black swan) events
- Revisiting and recalibrating analysis after new events
- Peer review processes for accuracy validation
- Documenting rationale behind each risk score
Module 5: Risk Evaluation – Prioritising What Matters - Defining risk treatment priorities based on business impact
- Comparing risks across departments and regions
- Creating a consolidated enterprise risk view
- Ranking risks using risk heat maps
- Setting escalation thresholds for leadership
- Determining which risks require immediate action
- Using cost-benefit analysis to guide decisions
- Prioritising risks affecting critical business functions
- Aligning risk rankings with strategic objectives
- Visualising risk portfolios for board presentations
- Avoiding risk fatigue through smart prioritisation
- Integrating risk evaluation with budget cycles
- Reporting top risks to audit and risk committees
- Distinguishing between inherent and residual risk
- Using risk evaluation to justify security investments
Module 6: Risk Treatment – Designing Effective Controls - Selecting risk treatment options: avoid, transfer, mitigate, accept
- Criteria for choosing the optimal treatment strategy
- Developing risk treatment plans with owners and deadlines
- Linking controls to ISO 27001 Annex A clauses
- Mapping controls to NIST, CIS, or other frameworks
- Creating bespoke controls when standards don’t apply
- Writing control objectives with measurable outcomes
- Assigning accountability using RACI matrices
- Budgeting for control implementation
- Creating action plans with milestones and KPIs
- Integrating controls into change management
- Documenting control rationale for auditors
- Ensuring controls are testable and sustainable
- Addressing control overlap and redundancy
- Using automation to enforce control consistency
Module 7: Risk Assessment Documentation and Audit Readiness - Structuring your risk assessment report for clarity
- Writing executive summaries for leadership
- Documenting risk identification sessions
- Formatting risk registers for easy updates
- Using standardised templates across assessments
- Version control for risk documents
- Retaining audit evidence for compliance
- Ensuring traceability from risk to control to test
- Proving due diligence in risk evaluation
- Presenting risk findings to internal and external auditors
- Preparing for certification audit questions
- Common non-conformities in risk assessment practices
- Using appendixes and references for completeness
- Creating appendices for technical risk scenarios
- Maintaining document confidentiality and integrity
Module 8: Monitoring, Review, and Continuous Improvement - Scheduling regular risk assessment reviews
- Setting triggers for ad-hoc reassessments
- Monitoring key risk indicators (KRIs)
- Using dashboards to track risk trends
- Reviewing control effectiveness quarterly
- Updating risk assessments after major incidents
- Incorporating findings from audits and tests
- Adapting to organisational changes: M&A, restructuring
- Updating risk context with new technology
- Obtaining management review sign-off
- Documenting decisions from review meetings
- Aligning risk reviews with ISO 27001 internal audits
- Using feedback loops for process improvement
- Establishing a risk review calendar
- Automating reminders for reassessment deadlines
Module 9: Advanced Risk Scenarios and Industry Applications - Risk assessment for cloud environments
- Assessing shared responsibility models
- Third-party vendor risk assessment process
- Onboarding and offboarding vendor risks
- Supply chain cyber risk modelling
- Risks in DevOps and CI/CD pipelines
- Securing containerised and serverless architectures
- Risk implications of AI and machine learning systems
- IoT device security risk evaluation
- Risks in legacy system maintenance
- Assessing remote and hybrid work environments
- Data sovereignty and cross-border data transfer risks
- Risk treatment for zero-trust implementation
- Phishing and social engineering risk scoring
- Insider threat identification and mitigation
Module 10: Integration with Broader Governances, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) - Integrating ISO 27005 with COBIT 2019
- Aligning with NIST Cybersecurity Framework
- Mapping ISO 27005 to SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria
- Connecting risk data to enterprise risk management (ERM)
- Feeding risk insights into business continuity plans
- Using risk data for cyber insurance underwriting
- Integrating with incident response planning
- Linking risk to security awareness training topics
- Sharing risk intelligence across departments
- Using risk data for executive dashboards
- Automating data flows between GRC tools
- Reducing duplication with centralised risk repositories
- Ensuring compliance with board reporting requirements
- Creating a unified risk language across functions
- Demonstrating risk maturity to stakeholders
Module 11: Practical Implementation Projects and Templates - Hands-on project: Conduct your first ISO 27005 risk assessment
- Template: Risk identification worksheet
- Template: Asset inventory and classification form
- Template: Threat and vulnerability register
- Template: 5x5 Risk Matrix with scoring guidance
- Template: Risk statement builder with examples
- Template: Inherent and residual risk tracker
- Template: Risk treatment plan with RACI matrix
- Template: Control implementation tracker
- Template: Risk assessment report (executive version)
- Template: Full technical risk report
- Template: Audit evidence pack for ISO 27001
- Template: Risk review meeting agenda
- Template: Risk escalation protocol
- Template: Third-party risk assessment questionnaire
Module 12: Certification Preparation and Career Advancement - How to use your course work for certification evidence
- Preparing for ISO 27001 Stage 1 and Stage 2 audits
- Answering common risk-related auditor questions
- Documenting risk treatment plan sign-off
- Demonstrating continual improvement of risk processes
- Using your Certificate of Completion in job applications
- Highlighting ISO 27005 expertise on LinkedIn and resumes
- Negotiating higher compensation with proven skills
- Expanding into roles: CISO, GRC Manager, Audit Lead
- Providing consulting value with a structured methodology
- Training your team using your course materials
- Building a personal library of reusable risk assets
- Pursuing advanced certifications with confidence
- Staying updated via The Art of Service resources
- Accessing community insights from fellow professionals
- Identifying information assets: data, systems, hardware, people
- Inventory management for critical assets
- Asset classification and valuation techniques
- Mapping asset ownership and custodianship
- Identifying threats: internal, external, natural, and human-induced
- Threat modelling using STRIDE and other frameworks
- Identifying vulnerabilities in technical, procedural, and human controls
- Using checklists and templates for consistent identification
- Conducting stakeholder interviews for risk insight
- Workshop facilitation techniques for group risk identification
- Leveraging past incident data for proactive identification
- Vendor and third-party risk identification
- Cyber supply chain risk considerations
- Emerging risks: AI, cloud, and IoT exposure
- Documenting risk sources with audit-proof clarity
Module 4: Risk Analysis – Evaluating Likelihood and Impact - Selecting a consistent risk analysis method
- Developing a likelihood scale: frequency and probability
- Creating an impact scale: operational, financial, legal, reputational
- Building a 5x5 risk matrix with clear thresholds
- Analysing risk scenarios using realistic assumptions
- Challenging assumptions to avoid bias
- Using expert judgment ethically and transparently
- Detecting and correcting optimism bias in risk analysis
- Applying recognised standards to likelihood assessment
- Making impact assessments specific and measurable
- Scoring risks consistently across departments
- Handling low-probability, high-impact (black swan) events
- Revisiting and recalibrating analysis after new events
- Peer review processes for accuracy validation
- Documenting rationale behind each risk score
Module 5: Risk Evaluation – Prioritising What Matters - Defining risk treatment priorities based on business impact
- Comparing risks across departments and regions
- Creating a consolidated enterprise risk view
- Ranking risks using risk heat maps
- Setting escalation thresholds for leadership
- Determining which risks require immediate action
- Using cost-benefit analysis to guide decisions
- Prioritising risks affecting critical business functions
- Aligning risk rankings with strategic objectives
- Visualising risk portfolios for board presentations
- Avoiding risk fatigue through smart prioritisation
- Integrating risk evaluation with budget cycles
- Reporting top risks to audit and risk committees
- Distinguishing between inherent and residual risk
- Using risk evaluation to justify security investments
Module 6: Risk Treatment – Designing Effective Controls - Selecting risk treatment options: avoid, transfer, mitigate, accept
- Criteria for choosing the optimal treatment strategy
- Developing risk treatment plans with owners and deadlines
- Linking controls to ISO 27001 Annex A clauses
- Mapping controls to NIST, CIS, or other frameworks
- Creating bespoke controls when standards don’t apply
- Writing control objectives with measurable outcomes
- Assigning accountability using RACI matrices
- Budgeting for control implementation
- Creating action plans with milestones and KPIs
- Integrating controls into change management
- Documenting control rationale for auditors
- Ensuring controls are testable and sustainable
- Addressing control overlap and redundancy
- Using automation to enforce control consistency
Module 7: Risk Assessment Documentation and Audit Readiness - Structuring your risk assessment report for clarity
- Writing executive summaries for leadership
- Documenting risk identification sessions
- Formatting risk registers for easy updates
- Using standardised templates across assessments
- Version control for risk documents
- Retaining audit evidence for compliance
- Ensuring traceability from risk to control to test
- Proving due diligence in risk evaluation
- Presenting risk findings to internal and external auditors
- Preparing for certification audit questions
- Common non-conformities in risk assessment practices
- Using appendixes and references for completeness
- Creating appendices for technical risk scenarios
- Maintaining document confidentiality and integrity
Module 8: Monitoring, Review, and Continuous Improvement - Scheduling regular risk assessment reviews
- Setting triggers for ad-hoc reassessments
- Monitoring key risk indicators (KRIs)
- Using dashboards to track risk trends
- Reviewing control effectiveness quarterly
- Updating risk assessments after major incidents
- Incorporating findings from audits and tests
- Adapting to organisational changes: M&A, restructuring
- Updating risk context with new technology
- Obtaining management review sign-off
- Documenting decisions from review meetings
- Aligning risk reviews with ISO 27001 internal audits
- Using feedback loops for process improvement
- Establishing a risk review calendar
- Automating reminders for reassessment deadlines
Module 9: Advanced Risk Scenarios and Industry Applications - Risk assessment for cloud environments
- Assessing shared responsibility models
- Third-party vendor risk assessment process
- Onboarding and offboarding vendor risks
- Supply chain cyber risk modelling
- Risks in DevOps and CI/CD pipelines
- Securing containerised and serverless architectures
- Risk implications of AI and machine learning systems
- IoT device security risk evaluation
- Risks in legacy system maintenance
- Assessing remote and hybrid work environments
- Data sovereignty and cross-border data transfer risks
- Risk treatment for zero-trust implementation
- Phishing and social engineering risk scoring
- Insider threat identification and mitigation
Module 10: Integration with Broader Governances, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) - Integrating ISO 27005 with COBIT 2019
- Aligning with NIST Cybersecurity Framework
- Mapping ISO 27005 to SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria
- Connecting risk data to enterprise risk management (ERM)
- Feeding risk insights into business continuity plans
- Using risk data for cyber insurance underwriting
- Integrating with incident response planning
- Linking risk to security awareness training topics
- Sharing risk intelligence across departments
- Using risk data for executive dashboards
- Automating data flows between GRC tools
- Reducing duplication with centralised risk repositories
- Ensuring compliance with board reporting requirements
- Creating a unified risk language across functions
- Demonstrating risk maturity to stakeholders
Module 11: Practical Implementation Projects and Templates - Hands-on project: Conduct your first ISO 27005 risk assessment
- Template: Risk identification worksheet
- Template: Asset inventory and classification form
- Template: Threat and vulnerability register
- Template: 5x5 Risk Matrix with scoring guidance
- Template: Risk statement builder with examples
- Template: Inherent and residual risk tracker
- Template: Risk treatment plan with RACI matrix
- Template: Control implementation tracker
- Template: Risk assessment report (executive version)
- Template: Full technical risk report
- Template: Audit evidence pack for ISO 27001
- Template: Risk review meeting agenda
- Template: Risk escalation protocol
- Template: Third-party risk assessment questionnaire
Module 12: Certification Preparation and Career Advancement - How to use your course work for certification evidence
- Preparing for ISO 27001 Stage 1 and Stage 2 audits
- Answering common risk-related auditor questions
- Documenting risk treatment plan sign-off
- Demonstrating continual improvement of risk processes
- Using your Certificate of Completion in job applications
- Highlighting ISO 27005 expertise on LinkedIn and resumes
- Negotiating higher compensation with proven skills
- Expanding into roles: CISO, GRC Manager, Audit Lead
- Providing consulting value with a structured methodology
- Training your team using your course materials
- Building a personal library of reusable risk assets
- Pursuing advanced certifications with confidence
- Staying updated via The Art of Service resources
- Accessing community insights from fellow professionals
- Defining risk treatment priorities based on business impact
- Comparing risks across departments and regions
- Creating a consolidated enterprise risk view
- Ranking risks using risk heat maps
- Setting escalation thresholds for leadership
- Determining which risks require immediate action
- Using cost-benefit analysis to guide decisions
- Prioritising risks affecting critical business functions
- Aligning risk rankings with strategic objectives
- Visualising risk portfolios for board presentations
- Avoiding risk fatigue through smart prioritisation
- Integrating risk evaluation with budget cycles
- Reporting top risks to audit and risk committees
- Distinguishing between inherent and residual risk
- Using risk evaluation to justify security investments
Module 6: Risk Treatment – Designing Effective Controls - Selecting risk treatment options: avoid, transfer, mitigate, accept
- Criteria for choosing the optimal treatment strategy
- Developing risk treatment plans with owners and deadlines
- Linking controls to ISO 27001 Annex A clauses
- Mapping controls to NIST, CIS, or other frameworks
- Creating bespoke controls when standards don’t apply
- Writing control objectives with measurable outcomes
- Assigning accountability using RACI matrices
- Budgeting for control implementation
- Creating action plans with milestones and KPIs
- Integrating controls into change management
- Documenting control rationale for auditors
- Ensuring controls are testable and sustainable
- Addressing control overlap and redundancy
- Using automation to enforce control consistency
Module 7: Risk Assessment Documentation and Audit Readiness - Structuring your risk assessment report for clarity
- Writing executive summaries for leadership
- Documenting risk identification sessions
- Formatting risk registers for easy updates
- Using standardised templates across assessments
- Version control for risk documents
- Retaining audit evidence for compliance
- Ensuring traceability from risk to control to test
- Proving due diligence in risk evaluation
- Presenting risk findings to internal and external auditors
- Preparing for certification audit questions
- Common non-conformities in risk assessment practices
- Using appendixes and references for completeness
- Creating appendices for technical risk scenarios
- Maintaining document confidentiality and integrity
Module 8: Monitoring, Review, and Continuous Improvement - Scheduling regular risk assessment reviews
- Setting triggers for ad-hoc reassessments
- Monitoring key risk indicators (KRIs)
- Using dashboards to track risk trends
- Reviewing control effectiveness quarterly
- Updating risk assessments after major incidents
- Incorporating findings from audits and tests
- Adapting to organisational changes: M&A, restructuring
- Updating risk context with new technology
- Obtaining management review sign-off
- Documenting decisions from review meetings
- Aligning risk reviews with ISO 27001 internal audits
- Using feedback loops for process improvement
- Establishing a risk review calendar
- Automating reminders for reassessment deadlines
Module 9: Advanced Risk Scenarios and Industry Applications - Risk assessment for cloud environments
- Assessing shared responsibility models
- Third-party vendor risk assessment process
- Onboarding and offboarding vendor risks
- Supply chain cyber risk modelling
- Risks in DevOps and CI/CD pipelines
- Securing containerised and serverless architectures
- Risk implications of AI and machine learning systems
- IoT device security risk evaluation
- Risks in legacy system maintenance
- Assessing remote and hybrid work environments
- Data sovereignty and cross-border data transfer risks
- Risk treatment for zero-trust implementation
- Phishing and social engineering risk scoring
- Insider threat identification and mitigation
Module 10: Integration with Broader Governances, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) - Integrating ISO 27005 with COBIT 2019
- Aligning with NIST Cybersecurity Framework
- Mapping ISO 27005 to SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria
- Connecting risk data to enterprise risk management (ERM)
- Feeding risk insights into business continuity plans
- Using risk data for cyber insurance underwriting
- Integrating with incident response planning
- Linking risk to security awareness training topics
- Sharing risk intelligence across departments
- Using risk data for executive dashboards
- Automating data flows between GRC tools
- Reducing duplication with centralised risk repositories
- Ensuring compliance with board reporting requirements
- Creating a unified risk language across functions
- Demonstrating risk maturity to stakeholders
Module 11: Practical Implementation Projects and Templates - Hands-on project: Conduct your first ISO 27005 risk assessment
- Template: Risk identification worksheet
- Template: Asset inventory and classification form
- Template: Threat and vulnerability register
- Template: 5x5 Risk Matrix with scoring guidance
- Template: Risk statement builder with examples
- Template: Inherent and residual risk tracker
- Template: Risk treatment plan with RACI matrix
- Template: Control implementation tracker
- Template: Risk assessment report (executive version)
- Template: Full technical risk report
- Template: Audit evidence pack for ISO 27001
- Template: Risk review meeting agenda
- Template: Risk escalation protocol
- Template: Third-party risk assessment questionnaire
Module 12: Certification Preparation and Career Advancement - How to use your course work for certification evidence
- Preparing for ISO 27001 Stage 1 and Stage 2 audits
- Answering common risk-related auditor questions
- Documenting risk treatment plan sign-off
- Demonstrating continual improvement of risk processes
- Using your Certificate of Completion in job applications
- Highlighting ISO 27005 expertise on LinkedIn and resumes
- Negotiating higher compensation with proven skills
- Expanding into roles: CISO, GRC Manager, Audit Lead
- Providing consulting value with a structured methodology
- Training your team using your course materials
- Building a personal library of reusable risk assets
- Pursuing advanced certifications with confidence
- Staying updated via The Art of Service resources
- Accessing community insights from fellow professionals
- Structuring your risk assessment report for clarity
- Writing executive summaries for leadership
- Documenting risk identification sessions
- Formatting risk registers for easy updates
- Using standardised templates across assessments
- Version control for risk documents
- Retaining audit evidence for compliance
- Ensuring traceability from risk to control to test
- Proving due diligence in risk evaluation
- Presenting risk findings to internal and external auditors
- Preparing for certification audit questions
- Common non-conformities in risk assessment practices
- Using appendixes and references for completeness
- Creating appendices for technical risk scenarios
- Maintaining document confidentiality and integrity
Module 8: Monitoring, Review, and Continuous Improvement - Scheduling regular risk assessment reviews
- Setting triggers for ad-hoc reassessments
- Monitoring key risk indicators (KRIs)
- Using dashboards to track risk trends
- Reviewing control effectiveness quarterly
- Updating risk assessments after major incidents
- Incorporating findings from audits and tests
- Adapting to organisational changes: M&A, restructuring
- Updating risk context with new technology
- Obtaining management review sign-off
- Documenting decisions from review meetings
- Aligning risk reviews with ISO 27001 internal audits
- Using feedback loops for process improvement
- Establishing a risk review calendar
- Automating reminders for reassessment deadlines
Module 9: Advanced Risk Scenarios and Industry Applications - Risk assessment for cloud environments
- Assessing shared responsibility models
- Third-party vendor risk assessment process
- Onboarding and offboarding vendor risks
- Supply chain cyber risk modelling
- Risks in DevOps and CI/CD pipelines
- Securing containerised and serverless architectures
- Risk implications of AI and machine learning systems
- IoT device security risk evaluation
- Risks in legacy system maintenance
- Assessing remote and hybrid work environments
- Data sovereignty and cross-border data transfer risks
- Risk treatment for zero-trust implementation
- Phishing and social engineering risk scoring
- Insider threat identification and mitigation
Module 10: Integration with Broader Governances, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) - Integrating ISO 27005 with COBIT 2019
- Aligning with NIST Cybersecurity Framework
- Mapping ISO 27005 to SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria
- Connecting risk data to enterprise risk management (ERM)
- Feeding risk insights into business continuity plans
- Using risk data for cyber insurance underwriting
- Integrating with incident response planning
- Linking risk to security awareness training topics
- Sharing risk intelligence across departments
- Using risk data for executive dashboards
- Automating data flows between GRC tools
- Reducing duplication with centralised risk repositories
- Ensuring compliance with board reporting requirements
- Creating a unified risk language across functions
- Demonstrating risk maturity to stakeholders
Module 11: Practical Implementation Projects and Templates - Hands-on project: Conduct your first ISO 27005 risk assessment
- Template: Risk identification worksheet
- Template: Asset inventory and classification form
- Template: Threat and vulnerability register
- Template: 5x5 Risk Matrix with scoring guidance
- Template: Risk statement builder with examples
- Template: Inherent and residual risk tracker
- Template: Risk treatment plan with RACI matrix
- Template: Control implementation tracker
- Template: Risk assessment report (executive version)
- Template: Full technical risk report
- Template: Audit evidence pack for ISO 27001
- Template: Risk review meeting agenda
- Template: Risk escalation protocol
- Template: Third-party risk assessment questionnaire
Module 12: Certification Preparation and Career Advancement - How to use your course work for certification evidence
- Preparing for ISO 27001 Stage 1 and Stage 2 audits
- Answering common risk-related auditor questions
- Documenting risk treatment plan sign-off
- Demonstrating continual improvement of risk processes
- Using your Certificate of Completion in job applications
- Highlighting ISO 27005 expertise on LinkedIn and resumes
- Negotiating higher compensation with proven skills
- Expanding into roles: CISO, GRC Manager, Audit Lead
- Providing consulting value with a structured methodology
- Training your team using your course materials
- Building a personal library of reusable risk assets
- Pursuing advanced certifications with confidence
- Staying updated via The Art of Service resources
- Accessing community insights from fellow professionals
- Risk assessment for cloud environments
- Assessing shared responsibility models
- Third-party vendor risk assessment process
- Onboarding and offboarding vendor risks
- Supply chain cyber risk modelling
- Risks in DevOps and CI/CD pipelines
- Securing containerised and serverless architectures
- Risk implications of AI and machine learning systems
- IoT device security risk evaluation
- Risks in legacy system maintenance
- Assessing remote and hybrid work environments
- Data sovereignty and cross-border data transfer risks
- Risk treatment for zero-trust implementation
- Phishing and social engineering risk scoring
- Insider threat identification and mitigation
Module 10: Integration with Broader Governances, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) - Integrating ISO 27005 with COBIT 2019
- Aligning with NIST Cybersecurity Framework
- Mapping ISO 27005 to SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria
- Connecting risk data to enterprise risk management (ERM)
- Feeding risk insights into business continuity plans
- Using risk data for cyber insurance underwriting
- Integrating with incident response planning
- Linking risk to security awareness training topics
- Sharing risk intelligence across departments
- Using risk data for executive dashboards
- Automating data flows between GRC tools
- Reducing duplication with centralised risk repositories
- Ensuring compliance with board reporting requirements
- Creating a unified risk language across functions
- Demonstrating risk maturity to stakeholders
Module 11: Practical Implementation Projects and Templates - Hands-on project: Conduct your first ISO 27005 risk assessment
- Template: Risk identification worksheet
- Template: Asset inventory and classification form
- Template: Threat and vulnerability register
- Template: 5x5 Risk Matrix with scoring guidance
- Template: Risk statement builder with examples
- Template: Inherent and residual risk tracker
- Template: Risk treatment plan with RACI matrix
- Template: Control implementation tracker
- Template: Risk assessment report (executive version)
- Template: Full technical risk report
- Template: Audit evidence pack for ISO 27001
- Template: Risk review meeting agenda
- Template: Risk escalation protocol
- Template: Third-party risk assessment questionnaire
Module 12: Certification Preparation and Career Advancement - How to use your course work for certification evidence
- Preparing for ISO 27001 Stage 1 and Stage 2 audits
- Answering common risk-related auditor questions
- Documenting risk treatment plan sign-off
- Demonstrating continual improvement of risk processes
- Using your Certificate of Completion in job applications
- Highlighting ISO 27005 expertise on LinkedIn and resumes
- Negotiating higher compensation with proven skills
- Expanding into roles: CISO, GRC Manager, Audit Lead
- Providing consulting value with a structured methodology
- Training your team using your course materials
- Building a personal library of reusable risk assets
- Pursuing advanced certifications with confidence
- Staying updated via The Art of Service resources
- Accessing community insights from fellow professionals
- Hands-on project: Conduct your first ISO 27005 risk assessment
- Template: Risk identification worksheet
- Template: Asset inventory and classification form
- Template: Threat and vulnerability register
- Template: 5x5 Risk Matrix with scoring guidance
- Template: Risk statement builder with examples
- Template: Inherent and residual risk tracker
- Template: Risk treatment plan with RACI matrix
- Template: Control implementation tracker
- Template: Risk assessment report (executive version)
- Template: Full technical risk report
- Template: Audit evidence pack for ISO 27001
- Template: Risk review meeting agenda
- Template: Risk escalation protocol
- Template: Third-party risk assessment questionnaire