Description

A focused course, tailored for you

SecOps Meets OpsRes: The Resilience Architect Playbook

Build the tolerance thresholds, runbook architecture, and scenario-testing evidence that bridge security operations to regulatory resilience obligations.

Your SecOps team restores systems. Your OpsRes framework reports service continuity. Nobody has documented the translation between them, and the next regulatory examination will ask for it.

$199 one-time

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Includes a hand-built implementation playbook delivered alongside course access, generated for your specific situation.

Why this course

The gap between security operations and operational resilience is a documentation problem. SecOps produces containment timelines, MTTR metrics, and threat classifications. Operational resilience frameworks need impact tolerance thresholds, service disruption durations, and regulatory breach determinations. These two vocabularies were designed by different teams, governed by different frameworks, and reviewed on different cycles. A Resilience Architect who spans both functions spends a disproportionate amount of time translating between them, usually under pressure, during or immediately after a real incident. The regulations are explicit about what they want. The problem is that the data SecOps naturally produces does not arrive in the shape those regulations require. This course closes that gap, one artefact at a time.

What you walk away with

Write impact tolerance statements that satisfy DORA, FCA, and APRA CPS 230 supervisory scrutiny.
Redesign SecOps runbooks to produce OpsRes reporting data alongside containment outputs.
Design scenario-testing programs that use real attack vectors as resilience stressors.
Build third-party resilience due diligence frameworks for technology supplier assessments.
Produce the regulatory evidence pack for a tolerance breach before the next supervisory review.

The 12 modules

Module 1. The Translation Problem: SecOps Metrics vs Resilience Thresholds

A security incident produces MTTR, containment timelines, and threat-level classifications. An operational resilience framework needs service disruption duration, business impact level, and regulatory breach determination. This module maps the two vocabularies: how to take any SecOps incident category and output the OpsRes data your supervisors and internal audit teams expect, using a single classification table you build and own.

Module 2. Critical Business Service Identification for Security Architects

Operational resilience starts with a list of critical business services and the technical infrastructure supporting each one. This module walks through identifying which services fall within scope of your OpsRes program, mapping the security controls and dependencies that determine each service's resilience posture, and documenting the map in a format that satisfies both DORA and FCA operational resilience guidance. You leave with a completed service mapping template.

Module 3. Writing Impact Tolerance Statements That Hold Up

An impact tolerance statement must be specific, testable, and defensible to a regulator. Vague statements fail the scrutiny test. This module provides a template and worked examples for writing tolerance statements that name the service, the threshold, the measurement method, and the conditions that trigger a breach. You leave with draft tolerance statements ready for board review, structured to the format regulators expect.

Module 4. DORA Deep Dive: What Digital Operational Resilience Actually Requires

The Digital Operational Resilience Act specifies ICT risk management, incident classification, resilience testing, and third-party risk obligations. This module works through each obligation category as it applies to a Resilience Architect building or supporting OpsRes programs: which obligations are board-level, which fall to the architect, what documentation is required, and where SecOps incident data directly feeds DORA compliance artefacts.

Module 5. FCA and UK Operational Resilience: Policy Statements in Practice

The FCA's operational resilience policy statements require firms to identify important business services, set impact tolerances, and test scenarios. This module covers the UK framework's requirements in practical terms: the mapping exercises, the scenario-testing approach, and the evidence standard the FCA expects when a supervisor reviews your resilience program. Technology companies with UK-regulated customers need both DORA and FCA frameworks addressed in their supplier documentation.

Module 6. APRA CPS 230: Operational Risk for Technology-Dependent Businesses

APRA's CPS 230 standard extends operational risk management to cover technology service providers and the firms that depend on them. This module covers CPS 230's requirements for technology risk, the mapping between security controls and operational risk categories, the notification obligations, and how technology vendors building resilience capabilities for regulated customers document their own controls for supplier due diligence reviews.

Module 7. Scenario Design: Testing Tolerances Against Real Attack Vectors

Scenario testing is where tolerance statements either hold or fail. This module covers designing resilience scenarios using security incident vectors as the stressor: ransomware, supply chain compromise, third-party outage, and insider threat. You learn to run each scenario through the tolerance framework, document the test results, and produce the evidence pack your supervisor or internal audit team expects. Six worked scenario templates are included.

Module 8. SecOps Runbook Architecture for Resilience Reporting

A SecOps runbook written only for containment produces the wrong outputs for an OpsRes report. This module redesigns runbook architecture to produce both: fast containment decisions for the security team and structured service impact data for the resilience program. You work through a runbook template that captures the service disruption timeline, the impact threshold breach point, and the recovery evidence in a format that feeds directly into regulatory reporting.

Module 9. Third-Party and Supplier Resilience: The Technology Vendor Problem

A technology company's resilience depends on third-party suppliers. A regulated customer's resilience depends on the technology vendor's controls. This module covers assessing third-party resilience risk, the due diligence questionnaire framework that satisfies regulatory supplier requirements, how to structure your own resilience documentation so customers can use it for their supplier assessments, and the ongoing oversight model for third-party resilience monitoring.

Module 10. Building the Recovery Evidence Pack

When a tolerance breach occurs, the regulatory evidence pack must document the incident timeline, the breach determination, the recovery steps, and the lessons-learned actions. This module walks through every element of the evidence pack: which SecOps data goes in, how to write the breach narrative, how to structure the timeline, what the remediation log must contain, and how to present the pack to internal audit or a supervisor.

Module 11. Cross-Functional Ownership: Aligning SecOps, IT Ops, and Business Continuity

Operational resilience fails when SecOps owns the runbooks, IT operations owns the recovery procedures, and business continuity owns the tolerance statements, and none of the three documents connects to the others. This module covers the governance model that ties them together: RACI design, escalation paths, shared vocabulary standards, a single source of truth for service-to-control mapping, and the operating rhythm that keeps all three functions aligned between incidents.

Module 12. Regulatory Engagement: Preparing for Supervisory Reviews

A supervisory review of your operational resilience program expects specific artefacts, specific conversation readiness, and evidence that the program is live rather than paper-based. This module covers preparing for FCA or APRA supervisor visits, the standard questions resilience architects must answer, how to present scenario-testing results, and what regulators actually scrutinise in tolerance documentation versus what they skim. Includes a review-preparation checklist and mock supervisor question set.

How this addresses your situation

Specific modules that map to what you said you are dealing with.

The SecOps runbook says restore within four hours. The OpsRes tolerance statement says critical service threshold is two hours. The translation between those two numbers lives in nobody's documented process.

The regulator's scenario-testing requirement asks for security incident vectors as stressors. The SecOps team ran a tabletop. The OpsRes program has no record of it in the required format.

A real incident runs overnight. Containment takes six hours. The OpsRes breach determination form goes out at 9am. The data fields do not match the SecOps post-incident report.

Internal audit asks for the critical business service-to-security control mapping. The answer is a spreadsheet that was last updated before the last platform migration.

What you get with this course

Twelve text-based learning modules with downloadable implementation templates for every module.
Impact tolerance statement templates structured for DORA, FCA, and APRA CPS 230 requirements.
SecOps runbook architecture template designed to produce OpsRes reporting outputs alongside containment data.
Six worked scenario-testing templates using real security attack vectors as stressors.
Third-party resilience due diligence questionnaire framework for supplier assessments.
Regulatory evidence pack template for tolerance breach documentation and supervisory submission.
Review-preparation checklist and mock supervisor question set for FCA and APRA examinations.
Hand-built implementation playbook tailored to your role and context, delivered alongside course access.

What you will have in hand by Day 1, Week 1, Month 1

Course access provisioned within 24 hours of purchase.

Implementation playbook tailored to your role and context delivered alongside access.

Before and after

Before

SecOps incidents produce containment metrics that do not translate directly into OpsRes reporting. Tolerance statements exist but have not been tested against real incidents. Supplier resilience documentation was produced for the last audit and has not been maintained since. The next supervisory review will surface these gaps.

After

Every SecOps incident produces the OpsRes reporting data the framework requires. Tolerance statements are tested against scenario vectors drawn from real attacks. Supplier resilience is assessed on a documented cycle. The regulatory evidence pack for a breach is ready to produce within hours of incident close.

What happens if you do not address this

The next tolerance breach that is not reported correctly to a supervisor, or the next scenario test that cannot produce evidence, creates a regulatory finding that costs significantly more to remediate than a structured resilience program costs to build.

Who it is for

You work at the intersection of security operations and operational resilience. You design or oversee the frameworks, runbooks, and evidence structures that keep a technology-dependent organisation compliant with regulators and functional during incidents. You understand SecOps tooling and incident response. You also need to produce regulatory-grade resilience documentation, scenario-testing evidence, and tolerance statements that hold up to supervisory scrutiny. The skills this course teaches are the translation layer between those two domains.

Who this is NOT for. This course is not for pure security analysts focused on threat hunting or malware containment. It is not for business continuity managers who have no involvement with security incident response. It is specifically for the person who bridges both disciplines: Resilience Architects, senior SecOps leads moving into OpsRes ownership, and OpsRes program managers who need to understand the security incident data feeding their framework.

How it arrives

Text-based course in the Art of Service learning environment, plus downloadable templates and worked examples for every module, plus the hand-built implementation playbook delivered alongside course access.

Time investment. Twelve modules at your own pace. Most learners complete one module per session, typically 60-90 minutes each. The full program covers 12-15 hours of structured learning, plus the time you spend applying each module's template to your own context and environment.

Why $199 is the right number

Generic operational resilience training covers framework concepts but not the SecOps translation layer that Resilience Architects need. Pure SecOps training covers incident response but not regulatory resilience reporting. This course is the only structured program designed for the person who has to make both domains produce compatible outputs for the same regulatory examination.

FAQ

Does this course require a specific platform or toolset?

No. The frameworks, templates, and scenario-testing approaches are platform-agnostic. The artefacts you produce apply to any technical environment and any regulatory jurisdiction.

Which regulatory frameworks does the course cover?

DORA, FCA operational resilience policy statements, and APRA CPS 230 in depth. The tolerance-statement and scenario-testing methods apply to any operational resilience framework.

What if our OpsRes program is still in its early stages?

The course is designed to build a program from scratch or strengthen an existing one. Modules 1 through 4 are foundational; modules 5 through 12 extend a base program with regulatory-specific depth and evidence structures.

30-day money-back guarantee. If after a week of working through the materials this is not what you needed, reply to the receipt email and a full refund is processed. No questions, no forms.

Within 24 hours your account in the learning environment is provisioned and the tailored implementation playbook is delivered alongside it.