NCSP Bootcamp Certification

• Candidates looking to pursue a career in cybersecurity
• IT, cybersecurity and digital transformation design and implementation engineers
• IT, cybersecurity and digital transformation technical operations and business analysts
• IT, cybersecurity and digital transformation specialists including pen testers, ethical hackers, software and application developers, auditors, and investigators

Upon completion of this course, students will have:

• The skills and abilities to design, build, test, manage and improve a cybersecurity program based on the NCSF
• The knowledge to prepare for the NSCP Boot Camp exam (Foundation + Practitioner)

H0DV7S: NCSP Foundation Training

Digital Transformation

• Explain what it means to “become digital”
• Discuss the difference between industrial and digital era enterprises
• Explain how cybersecurity supports an organization’s digital transformation

Understanding Cyber Risks

• Explain the cyber risk equation
• Identify and explain each component of the cyber risk equation
• Describe the basics of a risk assessment

NIST Cybersecurity Framework Fundamentals

• Explain the genesis of the NIST-CSF
• List and describe the components of the NIST-CSF
• Describe each of the NIST-CSF’s objectives

Core Functions, Categories and Subcategories

• Understand and explain

               – Core functions

               – Framework categories

               – Informative references

Implementation Tiers and Profiles

• Understand and explain Implementation Tier terms and their use
• Understand and explain each Implementation Tier
• Understand and describe the three risk categories
• Understand and explain Profiles and their use
• Understand and describe the use of Profiles when

               – Determining gaps

               – Identifying and prioritizing focus areas

Cybersecurity Improvement

• Understand and explain 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
• Understand and describe CIIS as a practice within an organization

0DV8S: NCSP Practitioner Training

Chapter 1: Course Introduction

• Course organization
• Setting the stage

Chapter 2: Digital Transformation

• DX as a practitioner
• DX in the context of cybersecurity
• Cybersecurity as a DX catalyst

Chapter 3: Threat Landscape

• Threat actors: Agile and Creative
• Attacks
• Challenges
• Organizational response to threat landscape
• Absolute prevention not possible

Chapter 4: The Controls

• Initiation and basic
• Foundation
• Organizational and recovery

Chapter 5: Adopt and Adapt

• The context of adopt and adapt
• Cybersecurity and culture
• Where we are

Chapter 6: Adaptive Way of Working

• Introduction to adaptive way to work
• How to get started

Chapter 7: Rapid Adoption and Rapid

• Adaptation FastTrack™
• Rapid adoption
• Rapid adaptation

Chapter 8: CIIS as a Practice

• Ongoing practice of cybersecurity
• NIST 7-step improvement
• Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC)
• Integrate cybersecurity

• Candidates must have a reasonable amount of cyber security awareness and/or experience

Credits Earned

24 PDU & 24 CEU Credits

Delivery

The course will be delivered using ILT (traditional classroom with a live instructor) or vILT (a real instructor delivering the course over the internet). Draining Materials provided to each registration will include the following: Student book in PDF format - Enables note taking during the course. Video Library - Access to the self-study / self-paced videos will be provided (a 12 month license (renewable)) for future reference purposes