Information Security and Data Management Course

Introduction

Vulnerabilities and lack of necessary security skills applicable to today's technology environments have reached a crisis point and therefore, in order to maintain privacy required and to facilitate efficient communication between agencies, issues of information security, interoperability, and data management must be addressed. Information Security and Data Management training equip participants with knowledge and skills on how to integrate truly effective information security and data management best practices and standards to organizations existing processes, technology assets and management.

Course Objectives

At the end of the course, the participants will be able to:

o   Security Investment & Measurement

o   Cyber Risk Management & Security Metrics

o   Enterprise Security Governance & Planning

o   Realistic Security

o   Effective Incident Response

o   Managing Operational Threat

o   Developing a Crisis Communications Strategy

o   Building an Insider Threat Program

o   External Dependency Management

Duration

5 Days

Who Should Attend?

This course targets employees in the information technology department, managers, and all supervisors in all departments. The course also targets new start-ups that want to learn about information security to ensure their information is protected.

Course Content

Introduction & Overview

o   Introduction

o   Significance of Information Security

Information Security Governance

o   Information security governance

o   Significance of information security

o   Security management programs

Risk Management

o   Introduction to information security risk management

o   Information security risk assessment

o   Information security risk analysis

o   Mitigation of information security risk

o   Continuous information security risk Monitoring

Developing Information Security Strategy

o   Importance/significance of information security strategy

o   Factors to consider while developing Information security strategy

o   Information security Management Responsibilities

Policies, procedures, standards & guidelines

o   Introduction and Liability

o   Policy Basics

o   Policy Lifecycle

o   Best Practices and Guidelines

Information security technology

o   Introduction to information security technology

o   Trusted vs Untrusted technologies

o   VLANs

o   Information Encryptions

Incident management

o   Introduction to Information Security incident management

o   Incident management response lifecycle preparation

o   Intrusion detection technologies and systems

o   Security incident response

Business continuity & disaster recovery

o   Introduction to business continuity planning and disaster recovery

o   Business continuity phases

o   Disaster recovery

o   Recovery strategies

Training Approach

This course will be delivered by our skilled trainers who have vast knowledge and experience as expert professionals in the fields. The course is taught in English and through a mix of theory, practical activities, group discussion and case studies. Course manuals and additional training materials will be provided to the participants upon completion of the training.

Tailor-Made Course

This course can also be tailor-made to meet organization requirement. For further inquiries, please contact us on: Email: training@upskilldevelopment.com Tel: +254 721 331 808

Training Venue 

The training will be held at our Upskill Training Centre. We also offer training for a group at requested location all over the world. The course fee covers the course tuition, training materials, two break refreshments, and buffet lunch.

Visa application, travel expenses, airport transfers, dinners, accommodation, insurance, and other personal expenses are catered by the participant

Certification

Participants will be issued with Upskill certificate upon completion of this course.

Airport Pickup and Accommodation

Airport pickup and accommodation is arranged upon request. For booking contact our Training Coordinator through Email: training@upskilldevelopment.com, +254 721 331 808 

Terms of Payment: Unless otherwise agreed between the two parties payment of the course fee should be done 3 working days before commencement of the training so as to enable us to prepare better.

Online/ On-site (Nairobi, Kenya) Training Schedule