Online Graduate Certificate in Cyber Security Governance and Risk Management

Program Overview

Advance your cybersecurity career with RMIT's Online Graduate Certificate in Cybersecurity Governance and Risk Management. This flexible program equips you with the skills to develop and advise on cybersecurity risk and governance strategies, preparing you for leadership roles in the high-demand field of cybersecurity. Choose from four electives to specialize in areas such as cybersecurity strategy, data privacy, digital leadership, or emerging technology law and policy.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

• Advance your career in the high-demand field of cybersecurity and lead your organization's cybersecurity management strategy with the Online Graduate Certificate in Cybersecurity Governance and Risk Management.
• Cybersecurity is critical to every organization's success and involves delivering value to sustain growth while maintaining a risk-based approach to mitigating the possibilities of a cyberattack.
• This 100% online program is designed for working professionals and provides a flexible and convenient way to enhance your skills in cybersecurity governance and risk management without interrupting your career.
• The program is developed in collaboration with RMIT's Cybersecurity Research and Innovation Centre and equips you with the skills to develop and advise on cybersecurity risk and governance strategies.
• You'll design and apply governance, compliance, and resilience frameworks and learn how to respond to incidents and manage security governance teams, processes, and projects.

Outline:

• Fundamentals of Cybersecurity:
Develop an understanding of the complexity and nuances of cybersecurity as a technical discipline and apply key concepts to cyber defense, identity, access management (IdAM), and network security. Develop insights into the anatomy and stages of a cyberattack and discover key security tools and cyber defenses.
• Cybersecurity Governance, Risk, and Compliance Management:
Explore current and emerging cybersecurity governance, risk, and compliance requirements. You'll evaluate risk management concepts and key legal regulatory and compliance frameworks. Assess and quantify cyber risks and apply modeling and strategies to evaluate threats and vulnerabilities.
• Cybersecurity Resilience and Incident Management:
Develop insights and strategies to align cybersecurity management with organizational needs, assessing cybersecurity maturity, incident management, and crisis communication capabilities. Foster a strategic approach to creating a security culture and awareness in relation to assets and record management and design roles and responsibilities, processes, and governance structures for organizational cyber resilience.
• Electives:
Choose one from the following four subjects:
• Cybersecurity Strategy Project:
Undertake a project to conceptualize, develop, and recommend organizational strategies for a real client in partnership with the Cyber Ready Cloud Innovation Centre (CIC) at RMIT and AWS. Learn how to apply, demonstrate, and reflect your strategic approach to an industry problem. As part of this subject, you'll design a cybersecurity solution that will address industry challenges through applying AWS's digital innovation techniques and approaches.
• Data and Privacy in the Digital Age:
Develop an advanced understanding of Australian and international privacy laws. Comprehend the value of personal and commercial data and examine the obligations relating to the collection, storage, and use of customer data. Explore the ethical, social, and regulatory implications of key privacy and data topics and the necessary organizational response in the event of a data breach.
• Digital Leadership and Digital Delivery with Agile:
This elective includes two of RMIT Online's Future Skills short subjects. The digital leadership component will expose you to the leadership practices and mindsets required to lead product development and product teams. You'll be introduced to leadership frameworks and models within fast-changing digital environments. The agile delivery component will enable you to understand the depth and breadth of agile frameworks, methods, tools, and techniques and how to select, blend, and apply these broadly across business domains.
• Law and Policy for Emerging Technologies:
This elective examines the emergence of new technologies and its impacts on modern society, ethics, law, regulation, and policy. You'll study a range of theories and approaches for developing suitable regulations that are able to keep up and remain flexible with technological change.

Assessment:

• Ongoing throughout the teaching period
• Includes essays, reports, presentations, case studies, quizzes, and research projects.

Teaching:

• 100% online program
• Delivered via Canvas, RMIT's online learning platform
• Engaging and easy-to-follow coursework
• Access to discussion boards, online forums, electronic assignment submission, the library, and business journals
• Faculty includes industry experts and experienced practitioners
• Hands-on strategy project option delivered in conjunction with RMIT CIC, AWS

Careers:

• Cybersecurity governance and risk manager
• Cybersecurity auditor
• Cybersecurity consultant
• Cybersecurity systems engineer
• Cybersecurity risk analyst
• Cybersecurity incident responder