DigitalTrust® Professional (DTP®) SbD Foundation Certificate

Course Outline

Increasingly mandated by government, legal and regulatory bodies, secure by design principles and activities enable organisations to take a proactive approach to managing opportunity and risks, ensuring securty is designed into existing and future digital product and service delivery. It enables informed decision making, the protection of brand and reputation, compliance with increasing legal, regulatory and contractual requirements, improved allocation of limited resource, and trust in digital services.

Organisational competence and awareness of risk management and common frameworks to ensure secure, resilient services is key to enabling consumer confidence and trust in both public sector and private sector digital service delivery.

Drawing extensively on government guidance, best practice theory, framworks and standards, this 2-day, instructor led, DigitalTrust® Professional (DTP®) Secure by Design Foundation Certificate equips participants with an understanding of best practice secure by design principles and associated actitivites required to embed cybersecurity practices in digital delivery and the building of resilient digital services.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of the DigitalTrust® Professional (DTP®) Secure by Design Foundation Certificate participants will be able to:

• Understand requirements for secure by design planning and preparation
• Understand common legal, regulatory and contractual requirements affecting secure by design implementations
• Understand risk management best practice
• Understand how risk management enables effective decision making
• Understand risk assessment
• Identify common risk mangement frameworks
• Understand considerations for risk treatment
• Identify common assurance mechanisms and how they enable continuous improvement of digital service delivery

Course Outline

Day 1

Secure by Design Overview

• Introduction to Secure by Design

Secure by Design planning

• Understanding organisational/project context
• Common legal, regulatory and contractual obligations
• Organisational/project objectives

Risk Management Overview

• A framework for improved decision making
• Organisational/project risk management
• Consumer/customer risk management
• Documenting risk management arrangements

Day 2

Risk Assessment

• Identification of risk
• Analysis or risk
• Evaluation of risk

Risk Treatment

• Common control frameworks
• Control selection and prioritisation
• Control implementation

Security Assurance and Improvement

• Risk reporting
• Risk monitoring
• Continuous improvement

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this Foundation level course. The course is suitable for all employees at all levels.

Participants are provided with:

• DigitalTrust® Professional (DTP®) Secure by Design Foundation Certificate courseware including links to further reading and professional development resources
• DigitalTrust® Professional (DTP®) Secure by Design Foundation Certificate Certificate of Completion
• DigitalTrust® Professional (DTP®) Secure by Design Foundation Certificate digital badge