This course is a complete pass through governance, risk and compliance, built for the person who has to turn technical findings into a defensible risk decision. It runs the whole arc, from defining governance and accountability through assessing, analyzing and prioritizing risk, choosing a response, recording it in a register, mapping it to controls, validating through assessment, extending it to third parties, and reporting it upward. It teaches the federal stack alongside its commercial and international parallels, so NIST SP 800-30, 800-39 and the IR 8286 series sit next to COSO, ISO 31000, ISO/IEC 27005 and the EU Digital Operational Resilience Act.
Risk quantification is the headline. The course covers the FAIR model and then applies a materiality determination under the SEC disclosure criteria, which is exactly what boards are asking their security teams about right now, and very little training at any price gets past qualitative red, amber and green. It closes with a workshop in which participants build risk register entries for a fictional organization, decide whether a scenario triggers a disclosure obligation, and defend a risk treatment recommendation.
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Courses that are regularly updated based on feedback and industry developments, ensuring versions are mapped to federal competencies.
The instructor was wonderful and so knowledgeable. The course materials were extremely relevant to what my job is. I feel like I can be better because of this class.
— 2025 student
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Attend this course live online or as self-paced training. Engage with expert instructors, ask questions, and get feedback on your exercises and projects.
Get the same interactivity and access to the instructor as in-person students. There are no extra fees and we’ll work with you to ensure your remote setup is perfect.
Learn at your own pace with pre-recorded video lessons and hands-on exercises. Work through the material on your schedule with access to course content and resources.
Upon completion of this course, you’ll receive an official certificate testifying to your mastery of the curriculum. We’ll send you a link where you can download your certificate, share it online with your friends, post it to your professional network on LinkedIn, and view all your earned certificates. Congratulations on your achievement!
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We offer a single free retake of the class within a year.
You can also access recordings of each session in your student portal within one business day of the session’s end. Recordings are available for one month after the session.
Since 1921, Graduate School USA has partnered with over 125 federal agencies and trained more than one million federal employees. Led by instructors with deep, real-world knowledge of federal regulations, policies, and practices, our private group programs are practical, mission-driven, and tailored to your agency’s objectives. We offer expertise across key federal domains—including human resources, financial management, acquisition and contracting, leadership, and more—to deliver training where and how your team needs it.
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