Performing Effective CyberSecurity Risk Assessments and Audits 

Performing Effective CyberSecurity Risk Assessments and Audits

This practical how-to workshop, will cover the essential background information, resources, and techniques necessary to plan and execute thorough, hard-hitting CyberSecurity risk assessments and audits. Important common “red flag” CyberSecurity risks will be highlighted. We will explore a wide array of essential CyberSecurity administrative, technical, and physical controls for protecting valuable information assets and associated resources in today’s highly complex and rapidly changing Cyber world. Concepts and techniques will be reinforced through the use of group exercises associated with risk assessment and CyberSecurity control evaluations.

Learning Objectives:

• How to identify key indicators of significant CyberSecurity risk and measure their potential impact on your organization
• Reference important regulations, standards and frameworks relating to CyberSecurity and CyberAudit
• Identify methods for effectively assessing CyberSecurity controls using different levels of assessment procedures
• Building audit programs leveraging prominent CyberSecurity regulatory requirements and industry best practices

Seminar Outline:

• Developing Your Organization’s Inherent Risk Profile
• Identifying Relevant CyberSecurity Controls and Their Impact
• Measuring Your CyberSecurity Posture
• Communicating Results to Different Levels of Management

Speaker Bio – Kevin Cardwell —Senior Fellow in CyberSecurity and IT Audit

Kevin is an information security and IT audit professional. In addition to his training role at CPE Interactive, he is an independent consultant providing consulting services for companies throughout the world. He focuses on computer forensics and hacking courses.

He headed the team that built the U.S. Navy Network Operations and Security Center (NOSC), served as the Leading Chief of Information Security and provided consulting services throughout the world. While in this position, he created a strategy and training plan for the development of an expert team. This effort took personnel with little or no experience and build them into an expert information security team for NOSC.

Kevin is considered an authority on information security and vulnerability assessments. He is a developer, author, instructor in computer forensics and hacking courses. He is the author of the Center for Advanced Security and Training (CAST) Advanced Network Defense and Advanced Penetration Testing courses, Building Virtual Pentesting Labs for Advanced Penetration Testing, Advanced Penetration Testing for Highly Secured Environments (second edition) and Backtrack: Testing Wireless Network Security.

He has conducted technical presentations at Blackhat USA, Hacker Halted, ISSA, and TakeDownCon conferences as well as many others.

Kevin holds a bachelor of science degree in computer science from national University in California and a Master of science in software engineering from Southern Methodist University (SMU).

Cost: $550 Members - $900 Non-Members (Plus GST)

CPEs: 16 hours

RBC Convention Centre - Millenium Suite

Date of Event:*	Tuesday, November 21 through Wednesday, November 22, 2017
Start Time:*	7:30 Registration and Breakfast 8:00 Start 12:00 Lunch 4:00: Close

 

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