ISACA Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Cert Prep
9h 23mIntermediate2025-05-20
Authors

Cybrary
Course details
Are you getting ready to take the ISACA Certified Information System Manager (CISM) certification exam? This course was designed for you. With expert instruction from industry-leading cybersecurity professional development platform Cybrary, discover the core skills and technical know-how required to tackle the four domains of the official exam. By the end of this course, you’ll be equipped with cutting-edge skills for successfully transitioning from being a contributing member on an IT or security team to becoming a leader or manager.
Skills covered
Governance, Risk, and ComplianceNetwork SecurityCybersecurityCert Prep
Concepts
Introduction
- Introduction and overview
Governance
- Information security governance
- Frameworks
- Governance, risk, and compliance
- COBIT 2019
- ISO 27000 series
- NIST Cybersecurity Framework
- General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
- Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
- Legal and compliance
- Information security strategy
- Organizational culture
Risk Management
- Risk definitions
- Bias
- Developing a risk management program
- NIST 800-39
- NIST 800-30
- Risk management lifecycle
- Risk assessment and analysis
- NIST SP 800-37 Rev. 1 and SDLC
- Risk response
- Risk action plan
- Risk acceptance
- Risk mitigation
- Risk avoidance, sharing, and transfer
- Risk scenarios
- Risk register
- Cost-benefit analysis and ROI
- Risk monitoring and communications
- Risk governance and management
- Risk review
Information Security Program
- Information security program concepts
- Elements of an information security program
- Business case and budget
- Asset identification and classification
- Management controls
- Operational controls, part 1
- Operational controls, part 2
- Technical controls
- Symmetric cryptography
- Asymmetric cryptography
- Integrity and non-repudiation
- Data security and endpoint protection
- Network protection - segmentation
- Network address translation
- Wireless networks
- Network services
- Cloud integration
Incident Management
- Incident management overview
- Incident management processes
- Incident response plan
- Business continuity and disaster recovery planning
- Contingency planning and subplanning
- Contingency planning and project initiation
- Business impact analysis (BIA)
- Preventive controls and contingency strategies
- Data backup and recovery phase
- Components of contingency plans
- Plan testing, training, and exercise
- ISO 27031
Conclusion
- Course conclusion