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Cybersecurity

GRC Professional Training (GRCP)

The GRC Professional (GRCP) certification validates that you understand and can apply GRC in your organization

Total Duration
40 Hours
Level
Intermediate / Advanced
Category
Cybersecurity
About this course

About this course

GRC Professional ensures that you have the versatile skill set to integrate and advise on governance, strategy, performance, risk, compliance, ethics, internal control, security, privacy, and audit activities.

Become a versatile professional who integrates governance, strategy, performance, risk, compliance, ethics, security, privacy, and audit to achieve Principled Performance.

Target Audience

Risk managers and internal auditors dealing with risk management
Compliance officers handling compliance and regulation requirements
Business executives dealing with GRC integration into their organizations
Individuals preparing to take the GRCP certification

Prerequisites

Preferably 2+ years’ experience in governance, risk management, compliance, internal audit

Course Outline

  • The use of frameworks
  • Available GRC individual certifications
  • Business context and the need for a GRC approach and Principled Performance
  • The "Big" picture of business illustration
  • Defining Principled Performance
  • Advantages of Principled Performance
  • Defining common GRC terms
  • GRC Concepts
  • GRC roles and responsibilities (e.g. audit, legal, human resources, IT, compliance, risk management, ethics, the boards etc.)
  • Gaining commitment from senior management and the board
  • Overview of the OCEG GRC Capability Model
  • Implementing the OCEG GRC Capability Model at an organization
  • Understanding the external context of your organization
  • Understanding the internal context of your organization
  • Understanding and assessing culture
  • Understanding relevant stakeholders and developing a stakeholder relations plan
  • Setting direction and management decision-making criteria in accordance with mission, vision and values
  • Defining high-level and lower-level objectives
  • Identifying opportunities, threats and requirements for your organization
  • Assessing levels of reward, risk and compliance - inherent and residual basis
  • Designing relevant options and controls to respond to levels of reward, risk and compliance
  • Determining the right mix of proactive, detective, and responsive internal controls
  • Developing relevant policies and procedures
  • Providing communication to the right people, in the right way, at the right time
  • Delivering education to relevant individuals
  • Designing and implementing appropriate incentives
  • Designing notification methods to detect desired and undesirable events
  • Designing inquiry methods to detect desired and undesirable events
  • Responding to desired and undesirable events
  • Monitoring the GRC capability
  • Providing assurance on the GRC capability
  • Making improvements to the GRC capability
  • Elements of a GRC strategic plan
  • Completing risk and compliance assessments as a starting point - Fraud risk assessment, Organizational risk assessment, Compliance gap analysis
  • Moving from the current state to desired state
  • Degrees of integration and maturity models
  • Building and explaining the business case for integrated GRC
Learning outcomes

What you'll learn

Develop a GRC strategic plan
Align governance, risk and compliance in context of the organization
Understand, define, and enhance organizational culture as it relates to performance, risk, and compliance
Implement effective, efficient and agile GRC processes using the OCEG GRC Capability Model
Motivate and inspire desired conduct through the concept of Principled Performance
Understand technology’s role in GRC
Develop ongoing monitoring and continuous improvement of GRC activities through metrics and measurement
How to explain the value of Principled Performance, and an integrated approach to GRC, to your management and board

Skills you'll learn

9 skills
GRC Fundamentals
Risk Assessment
Compliance Management
Governance Frameworks
Policy Development
Culture Assessment
GRC Strategy
Performance Monitoring
Principled Performance

Certificate

  • Attendance Certificate from CLS Learning Solutions 


GRC Professional Training (GRCP)

Potential Career Paths

GRC Analyst
GRC Specialist
GRC Consultant
Risk & Compliance Officer
Governance Specialist