Certified in Governance, Risk and Compliance (CGRC) Certification Training in Abu Dhabi

Module 1: Security and Privacy Governance, Risk Management & Compliance

• Understand governance, risk management, and compliance principles.
• Explore security and privacy governance frameworks and organizational responsibilities.
• Learn NIST, ISO/IEC, COBIT, and other security and compliance frameworks.
• Understand confidentiality, integrity, availability, privacy, and non-repudiation.
• Study information and system lifecycles.
• Identify legal, regulatory, contractual, and organizational requirements.
• Understand risk management processes, risk tolerance, and compliance programs.

Module 2: Scope of the Information System

• Define information system boundaries, purpose, functionality, and assets.
• Identify information types processed, stored, or transmitted.
• Determine security and privacy requirements for information types.
• Understand system categorization and impact levels.
• Identify system stakeholders, dependencies, and organizational responsibilities.
• Develop appropriate system scope and documentation for security authorization.

Module 3: Selection and Approval of Security & Privacy Controls

• Understand security and privacy control frameworks and baselines.
• Identify baseline, common, inherited, and system-specific controls.
• Select and tailor controls according to organizational risk.
• Understand control enhancements and compensating controls.
• Document control selections and implementation responsibilities.
• Establish stakeholder agreement and continued compliance strategies.

Module 4: Implementation of Security and Privacy Controls

• Develop security and privacy control implementation strategies.
• Understand management, operational, technical, and common controls.
• Implement selected security and privacy controls.
• Align control implementation with organizational requirements.
• Document policies, procedures, security plans, and implementation evidence.
• Track residual risks, planned controls, and remediation activities.

Module 5: Assessment and Audit of Security & Privacy Controls

• Plan security and privacy control assessments and audits.
• Define assessment objectives, scope, resources, schedules, and deliverables.
• Collect and validate compliance evidence.
• Apply assessment techniques including interviews, examinations, and testing.
• Identify control deficiencies, vulnerabilities, and compliance gaps.
• Prepare preliminary and final assessment reports.
• Develop risk response and remediation plans.

Module 6: System Compliance and Security Authorization

• Review security and privacy documentation required for compliance decisions.
• Determine system risk posture and residual risk.
• Understand risk acceptance and risk treatment decisions.
• Support authorization and compliance documentation.
• Communicate compliance decisions to relevant stakeholders.
• Understand the relationship between security controls, risk, compliance, and organizational objectives.

Module 7: Compliance Maintenance and Continuous Monitoring

• Understand ongoing compliance and continuous monitoring activities.
• Apply security and privacy requirements during system changes.
• Track configuration, operational, security, and compliance changes.
• Monitor assets, controls, vulnerabilities, and security risks.
• Maintain evidence, policies, procedures, and compliance documentation.
• Support incident response, contingency planning, and security updates.
• Understand ongoing audits, testing, vulnerability assessments, and compliance reviews.
• Learn system decommissioning and compliance documentation requirements.

Module 8: CGRC Practical Risk Management & GRC Scenarios

• Apply governance, risk, and compliance concepts to enterprise scenarios.
• Analyze security control selection and implementation decisions.
• Practice risk assessment and risk treatment scenarios.
• Evaluate compliance gaps and control deficiencies.
• Work through assessment, audit, authorization, and continuous monitoring scenarios.
• Develop practical decision-making skills for cybersecurity GRC responsibilities.

Module 9: CGRC Certification Exam Preparation

• Review all seven CGRC certification domains.
• Practice governance, risk, compliance, security control, and assessment questions.
• Perform mock assessments and scenario-based practice.
• Identify knowledge gaps and strengthen weak areas.
• Review key terminology, frameworks, controls, and risk concepts.
• Prepare with exam-focused revision and practice strategies.