• Senior security managers, directors, or leaders who want to step into a CISO role
• Established security professionals (security program managers, security architects) moving toward executive responsibilities
• Professionals who already have technical experience and want to add strategic, governance, and leadership competence
• Candidates preparing to take the CCISO (712-50) exam

• Minimum 5 years of management experience in at least 3 of the 5 CCISO domains (applicants are screened via application)
• Strong understanding of information security, risk, compliance, and controls
• Familiarity with enterprise IT architectures, security operations, and organizational strategy
• Demonstrated leadership, financial, vendor, and audit exposure is highly beneficial

• Architect and lead an information security governance structure aligned with business objectives
• Develop risk management policies, frameworks, and treatment plans
• Design, implement, and monitor security controls, and oversee audits and compliance programs
• Operate and manage security programs, integrating security into operations and projects
• Oversee incident response, continuity planning, and security operations at enterprise scale
• Understand and direct core security technologies and domains (architecture, network, endpoint, identity, data) from a leadership view
• Create and defend strategic security plans, budgets, and investment justifications
• Select, manage, and negotiate with vendors, contracts, and outsourcing relationships
• Define and track meaningful security metrics, KPIs, and dashboards <br>
• Present security strategy to C-Suite, aligning security with business priorities • Managing financial and procurement aspects
• Be fully prepared to attempt and pass the CCISO (712-50) exam

• Define, implement, and maintain information security governance programs

• Understand business structures, organizational maturity, and where CISO fits

• Regulatory, legal, standards, policy management, compliance

• Ethics, leadership, reporting, and stakeholder alignment

• Risk management frameworks (ISO, NIST RMF, OCTAVE, FAIR, COBIT)

• Risk treatment, mitigation strategies, risk communication

• Security control types, control assurance, control design
• Audit processes, compliance assessment, control validation
• Vendor and third-party risk, oversight, contract controls
• Continuous monitoring, metrics, audit reporting, compliance frameworks

• Operational planning, security projects, aligning security with operations
• Integration of security in change management, SDLC, IT service management
• Incident management, continuity & disaster recovery
• Security staffing, organizational design, process maturity

• Core security domains: network, endpoint, identity, application, data, encryption
• Threat and vulnerability management
• Security architecture, systems, infrastructure, cloud, forensics, incident response
• Emerging trends, adversarial techniques, defense strategy

• Strategic planning for security, aligning with business goals
• Budgeting: capital expense (CapEx), operating expense (OpEx), ROI, cost justification
• Vendor and contract management, procurement, outsourcing
• KPIs, security metrics, performance measurement
• Business cases, executive communication, procurement and security in contracts