NCSP® 800-53 Practitioner Certificate - Self-Paced Video Training + Exam Voucher
NCSP® Foundation Certificate is a pre-requisite.
Accredited through APMG International, certified in the UK 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 US, the NIST Cyber Security Professional (NCSP®) training programme teaches individuals and organisations “HOW” to engineer, operationalise and continually improve a NIST Cyber Security Framework (NIST-CSF) Programme.
This is a self-paced 16-hour online video training course, giving you the ability to work at a pace that suits you. The course is aimed at those who will play an active role in the companies NIST Cyber Security Framework program.
The NCSP® 800-53 Practitioner Certificate teaches students the impact of adapting a principled approach to better support organizational cybersecurity risk management decision making utilizing the NIST 800-53 standard as an informative reference.
Completion of the NCSP® Foundation Certificate is a pre-requisite.
Overview
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., the NCSP® training programme teaches individuals and organisations how to engineer, operationalise and continually improve a NIST Cybersecurity Framework Programme.
Following on from the learning secured during the NCSP® Foundation Certificate course, this 12-hour, accredited self-paced, eLearning NCSP® 800-53 Practitioner Certificate course outlines current cybersecurity challenges and explains how organisations 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.
Completion of the NCSP® Foundation Certificate is a pre-requisite.
Course Features
- NCSP® 800-53 Practitioner Certificate digital courseware
- UK NCSC Certified, APMG International Accredited, USA DHS CISA Listed Qualified Cyber Training
- Exam fees included
- "Practitioner Guide to Adapting the NIST Cybersecurity Framework" eBook
- Certificate of Attendance
- NCSP® 800-53 Practitioner Certificate Digital Badge on successful completion of exam
- Access to the NIST Cyber Security Professional (NCSP®) LinkedIn community
- Access to the Digital Value Management System Institute (DMVSi) LinkedIn community
Course Organization
This NCSP® 800-53 Practitioner Certificate course builds on knowledge secured during NCSP® Foundation Certificate study and covers the following topics:
- Course Introduction
- The Threat Landscape
- Digital business threats
- Thinking like a threat actor
- The Cyber Resilient Organization
- Organizational strategy and associated cybersecurity risk
- Using the NIST-CSF to manage strategy-risk
- Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond and Recover
- "Understanding" Organizational Capability
- Governance and assurance
- Planning
- Design (people, process, technology, culture)
- Change management
- Operate and execute
- Innovation
- "Enabling" Organizational Capability
- Adopt and adapt
- Protection of business value
- A FastTrack™ approach to continual improvement
- "Improving" Organizational Capability using NIST 800-53
- Gap analysis
- NIST 800-53 control groups
- Alignment of NIST 800-53 control groups to organizational capabilities:
- Governance and assurance
- Planning
- Design (people, process, technology, culture)
- Change management
- Operate and execute
- Innovation
- "Assuring" Organizational Capability using NIST 800-53
- 800-53 control implementation
- 800-53 control audit
- Assurance
- Cybersecurity risk management capability
- The link to organizational strategy-risk
- A Scalable Solution
- Business Context
- From 'Simple' to 'More Complex'
- Scalable, "appropriate" Cybersecurity Risk Management
- Course Closure
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
CySec Professionals Ltd is an APMG International Accredited Training Organisation (ATO).
This NCSP® 800-53 Practitioner Certificate course is UK NCSC Certified Training.
Exam
Exam fees are included in the price.
Exam Format
- 65 questions
- 120 minute exam
- Pass Mark – 65% (42 out of 65 marks)
- Open book
- Online, proctored/invigilated exam
- Paper based, proctored/invigilated classroom exam delivery is available on request
This is an open book exam with sixtyfive (65) multiple-choice questions with a single correct answer from 4-choices (A, B, C, D).
Questions may appear in any of the following forms (sample, not an exhaustive list):
- Which of the following is true, correct, most correct?
- Which of the following statements is NOT correct?
- Which of the following statements addresses X?
- How would you show Y?
- What is…?
- What is missing from…?
- _____ is a correct way to…?
- How would you describe…?
- How would you explain…?
- What is the main idea of…?
- Which is the best choice…?
Access to the course lasts for 12 months allowing delegates to complete the course and exam in their own time.
