AMERICAS: 1-Day NCSP® Foundation Certificate

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 program teaches individuals and organizations how to engineer, operationalize and continually improve a NIST Cyber Security Framework Program.

This NCSP® Foundation Certificate course is designed to teach IT, Business and Cybersecurity professionals the fundamentals of Digital Transformation, Cyber Security Risk Management and the NIST Cyber Security Framework. 

The course outlines current cybersecurity challenges and explains how organisations who operationalize a NIST Cyber Security program across an enterprise and its supply chain can mitigate these challenges.

There are no pre-requisites for NCSP® Foundation Certificate course attendance.

This Foundation level course covers the following topics:

• Course Introduction
• Digital Transformation - Becoming Digital
• Understanding Cyber Risks
• The NIST Cybersecurity Framework Fundamentals
• Core Functions, Categories & Subcategories
• Implementation Tiers and Profiles
• Cybersecurity Improvement

Exam Details

Online, proctored, closed book exam with forty (40) 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…? 

Scoring 

Each correct answer is worth 1 point. 

Pass mark is 60% (24 correct out of 40).

NCSP® Pathway Progression

Students who complete and successfully pass the associated NCSP® Foundation exam progress onto NCSP® Practitioner Certificate level study.