Duration 4 days – 28 hrs
Overview
The CRISC Training Course prepares professionals to identify, assess, and manage IT and enterprise technology risk, and to design, implement, and maintain effective risk controls. This course aligns with the CRISC job practice domains and equips participants with practical techniques for risk governance, risk assessment, control design/testing, and ongoing monitoring and reporting supporting readiness for the CRISC certification exam and real-world risk management responsibilities.
Objectives
- Explain key concepts of IT risk management and how CRISC aligns with governance and business objectives.
- Establish and communicate a technology risk management strategy and risk appetite/tolerance concepts.
- Perform technology risk identification, analysis, evaluation, and risk response planning.
- Design and evaluate risk and control frameworks, including preventive/detective/corrective controls.
- Support control implementation and validation (testing/assurance) using practical approaches.
- Develop KRIs, dashboards, and reporting to stakeholders for risk and control monitoring.
- Apply CRISC-aligned techniques to common scenarios (third-party risk, change risk, cloud risk, cyber risk, project risk).
- Strengthen exam readiness through domain mapping, practice questions, and scenario-based drills.
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Audience
- IT Risk Managers / Officers, Technology Risk Analysts
- IT Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) practitioners
- Internal/IT Auditors and assurance professionals shifting toward risk ownership
- Information Security / Cybersecurity leads involved in risk-based controls
- Business continuity / resilience professionals
- IT Managers / Project Managers / Product Owners with risk/control responsibilities
- Professionals pursuing CRISC certification
Prerequisites
- Basic knowledge of IT systems and common controls
- Familiarity with risk concepts (likelihood/impact, mitigation, residual risk)
- Exposure to audit, compliance, security, or IT operations is helpful
Course Content
Module 0: Orientation & Exam Mapping
- What CRISC is and who it’s for
- Certification pathway: exam blueprint, question style, and study approach
- CRISC domains, task statements, and how the course maps to them
- Baseline assessment quiz (optional)
Domain 1: Governance (IT Risk Management Strategy)
- Principles of IT risk governance and business alignment
- Risk appetite, tolerance, and acceptable risk
- Roles and responsibilities: three lines model, risk ownership, escalation paths
- Policies, standards, and enterprise governance integration
- Building a risk management strategy and operating model
- Stakeholder communication and decision enablement
Workshop: Draft a risk strategy one-pager and RACI for a sample organization
Domain 2: IT Risk Assessment
- Risk identification methods: process mapping, threat modeling (high-level), interviews, data review
- Asset/value identification and risk scenario development
- Inherent vs residual risk; control strength concepts
- Qualitative and quantitative approaches (when to use each)
- Risk analysis: likelihood, impact dimensions (financial, operational, regulatory, reputational)
- Risk evaluation and prioritization: heat maps, risk register design
- Risk response planning: avoid/mitigate/transfer/accept
Workshop: Build a risk register and perform scoring for multiple scenarios
Domain 3: Risk Response and Reporting (Risk Treatment & Communication)
- Selecting risk responses and documenting justification
- Control selection approaches: baseline, risk-based, control objectives
- Risk treatment plans: owners, milestones, resources, dependencies
- Third-party and vendor risk: assessment, contractual controls, ongoing monitoring
- Risk reporting: stakeholder-specific reporting, dashboards, and narratives
- Exception management, waivers, and risk acceptance workflow
Workshop: Create a risk treatment plan + executive risk report slide
Domain 4: Information Technology and Security (Control Design, Implementation, Monitoring)
- Control types and control design principles
- Control lifecycle: design → implement → operate → monitor → improve
- Control testing and assurance: evidence, sampling, walkthroughs, effectiveness criteria
- Common control areas and risk/control examples:
- Access management (IAM)
- Change & release management
- Incident response and problem management
- Backup, DR, business continuity
- Data protection and privacy controls
- Logging/monitoring, vulnerability management
- Cloud/shared responsibility basics
- Metrics: KRIs/KPIs, thresholds, trend analysis, risk events
Workshop: Define a control set and testing plan for a high-risk process
Integrated Case Studies (Scenario-Based Practice)
- Case 1: Cloud migration risk assessment and control recommendations
- Case 2: Vendor onboarding with data processing risk + contract controls
- Case 3: Major change implementation and go/no-go risk decision
- Case 4: Security incident post-mortem: risk event, root cause, control improvements
- Building a mini “CRISC pack”: risk register + treatment plan + monitoring dashboard
Exam Preparation & Final Review
- Domain-by-domain recap and common pitfalls
- Time management strategy for the exam
- Practice questions and rationales (mock exam-style)
- Personal study plan and next steps
