Practitioner—NIST Cybersecurity Professional 800-53 Certificate

Prerequisite:

• The NIST Cybersecurity Professional Foundation Course and corresponding certification exam is required before beginning this course. 

Following on from the learning secured during the NCSP® Foundation Certificate course, the NCSP® 800-53 Practitioner Certificate course outlines current cybersecurity challenges and explains how organizations who operationalize a NIST-CSF program across an enterprise and its supply chain can mitigate these challenges, using the NIST 800-53 standard as an informative reference.

Topics of Study

• The Threat Landscape

• The Cyber Resilient Organization

• "Understanding" Organizational Capability

• "Enabling" Organizational Capability​

• "Improving" Organizational Capability using NIST 800-53

• "Assuring" Organizational Capability using NIST 800-53

• A Scalable Solution

Learning Objectives

This course will empower candidates with the following learning outcomes:

• Understand and describe how an organization can approach the adoption and adaptation of the NIST-CSF

• Understand and describe how to implement cybersecurity controls using an incremental improvement approach, using the NIST 800-53 Standard as an informative reference

• Understand and describe how to create, protect, and deliver digital business value

Audience

For IT, Business and Cyber Security professionals who will play an active or passive role in engineering, operationalizing and continually improving an organizations NIST-CSF programme and those looking for a baseline knowledge of the NIST-CSF who are considering a career in cybersecurity.

Accreditation

Accredited through APMG International, certified in the United Kingdom by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and listed as qualified cyber training by Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (DHS CISA) in the U.S.