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Cybersecurity and IT

Information Security Risk Management

This course gives risk and IT professionals a structured methodology for identifying, assessing and treating information security risk across complex organisations. Participants work through practical risk registers, control frameworks and audit techniques relevant to banking, insurance and public sector environments where regulatory scrutiny is intensifying. The course emphasises defensible, evidence based risk decisions rather than checklist compliance.

Course objectives

  • Apply recognised risk assessment methodologies to information assets and systems
  • Build and maintain an information security risk register
  • Select and justify security controls proportionate to identified risk
  • Align information security risk management with recognised standards and frameworks
  • Report information security risk exposure to senior management and audit committees

Who should attend

  • Information security and IT risk officers
  • Internal and external auditors
  • Compliance and governance managers
  • IT managers responsible for system security
  • Enterprise risk management professionals

Course outline

  1. 01Foundations of information security risk management
  2. 02Asset identification, classification and threat modelling
  3. 03Risk assessment methodologies and scoring
  4. 04Control selection, implementation and validation
  5. 05Aligning practice with recognised security standards
  6. 06Reporting risk to executives and audit and risk committees

Scheduled sessions

Scheduled sessions for Information Security Risk Management
DatesVenueFormatPriceRegister
28 to 30 October 2026Windhoek, NamibiaClassroomR11,995 per delegateRegister Now
12 to 14 November 2026Pretoria, South AfricaClassroomR11,995 per delegateRegister Now
21 to 23 November 2026Windhoek, NamibiaClassroomR11,995 per delegateRegister Now
7 to 9 February 2027Cape Town, South AfricaClassroomR11,995 per delegateRegister Now
22 to 24 June 2027Nairobi, KenyaClassroomR11,995 per delegateRegister Now
17 to 19 July 2027Durban, South AfricaClassroomR11,995 per delegateRegister Now