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Explore role-based learning paths, then complete optional AI-marked scenario submissions for each job path.

Free members get 1 AI-graded scenario submission per week on our intro tracks (GRC Analyst, Regulatory Compliance Analyst, Risk Manager). Upgrade to Pro to unlock every job path and scenario.

Job Path Index

1. GRC Analyst Job Path2. IT Audit & Assurance Job Path3. Privacy Operations Analyst Job Path4. Security Engineering & Operations Job Path5. Security Compliance Engineer Job Path6. Third-Party Risk Analyst Job Path7. GRC Program Manager Job Path8. Business Continuity Manager Job Path9. Data Governance Lead Job Path10. AI Governance & Model Risk Job Path11. Compliance Analyst / Regulatory Compliance Analyst Job Path12. Risk Manager / Operational Risk Analyst Job Path13. ISO 27001 / Security Compliance Manager Job Path14. Operational Resilience Analyst Job Path15. Executive & Board Reporting Job Path16. Cloud Governance & Asset Lifecycle Job Path17. Quantitative Risk & Insider Threat Job Path18. ESG Governance & Disclosure Job Path

GRC Analyst Job Path

Core progression for analysts building practical governance, risk, compliance, and control execution skills.

Free scenarios available

Path 1

GRC Fundamentals

Build your foundation in governance, risk, and compliance. Learn core concepts, key terminology, and how GRC frameworks work together.

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Path 2

GRC Primer Practice

A beginner-friendly path to practice core GRC concepts with short, practical rooms before moving into larger role-based tracks.

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Path 3

GRC Starter Labs

A second beginner track for building confidence with foundational governance, risk, control, and reporting workflows.

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Path 4

Beginner GRC Foundations Lab

A beginner path for mastering essential GRC terms, policy hierarchy, and practical risk-writing fundamentals.

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Path 5

Beginner Risk & Controls Workshop

An entry-level workshop path covering risk scoring, appetite basics, and understanding control outcomes vs activities.

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Path 6

Risk & Compliance Operations

An intermediate path focused on day-to-day risk analysis, treatment decisions, KRIs, and compliance operations execution.

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Path 7

Risk Management Professional

Master advanced risk assessment methods, treatment planning, monitoring, and executive reporting through practical scenarios.

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Path 8

Control Assurance Practice

Intermediate path focused on control evidence, audit readiness, and practical assurance execution across day-to-day programs.

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Path 9

Framework Mastery

Build fluency across major security and compliance frameworks, then map controls across standards for unified assurance.

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Path 10

Intermediate Risk Treatment Lab

Intermediate path focused on practical risk-treatment prioritization and decision quality in constrained environments.

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Path 11

Control Design & Operating Effectiveness Testing

Build practical GRC skills for evaluating whether controls are designed appropriately and operating effectively through realistic scenarios covering onboarding, daily operations, monitoring, exceptions, remediation, and reporting.

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Path 12

Issue Management Root Cause Analysis & Corrective Action Governance

Build practical GRC skills for identifying issues, analyzing root causes, governing corrective and preventive actions, managing ownership and evidence, and reporting remediation status across realistic operational, compliance, technology, and third-party scenarios.

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Path 13

Control Deficiency Rating & Materiality Governance

Develop advanced judgment for rating control deficiencies, determining materiality, governing aggregation decisions, and escalating nuanced risk scenarios across financial reporting, operational compliance, technology control environments, and executive oversight structures.

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Path 14

Issue Taxonomy Governance & Enterprise Loss Event Classification

Strengthen enterprise GRC decision-making by governing issue taxonomies and classifying loss events across operational risk, technology, compliance, third-party, model, conduct, and cyber scenarios. Practice nuanced classification choices, threshold design, cross-framework mapping, portfolio analytics, and executive reporting under ambiguous real-world conditions.

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AI-marked scenarios

Scenario Submissions

Free members: 1 AI-graded submission per week across the intro scenario tracks.

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Case studies for this job path

Realistic governance narratives with guided comprehension questions.

Case Study

Recurring Vendor Due Diligence Failures and Weak Root Cause Governance

3 guided questions

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Overdue Corrective Actions After a Vendor Risk Review

3 guided questions

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Corrective Action Governance After a Recurring Access Review Failure

3 guided questions

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Rationalize Overlapping Operational Controls in a Shared Services Environment

3 guided questions

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Rationalize a Global Control Library After a Merger

3 guided questions

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Case Study

Rationalize Overlapping Controls Across Three Frameworks

3 guided questions

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Operating Risk Appetite Limits During a Rapid Expansion

3 guided questions

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Operating an Enterprise Risk Appetite, Tolerance, and Limit Framework

3 guided questions

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Launching the Semiannual RCSA Cycle at Harborview Credit Union

3 guided questions

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Case Study

Refresh the RCSA Program for Third-Party Claims Operations

3 guided questions

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GRC Analyst Job Path

Complete every lab, case study, and the scenario path above to unlock the GRC Analyst Job Path certificate.

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Scenario prompts in this job path

  1. Scenario 1Draft an enterprise risk statement and identify the top three business drivers.
  2. Scenario 2Build a control map linking key risks to preventive and detective controls.
  3. Scenario 3Create a short evidence checklist for a monthly control health review.
  4. Scenario 4Run a mock issue triage and assign owners with due dates.
  5. Scenario 5Prepare a one-page leadership summary of risk posture and control gaps.
  6. Scenario 6Design a control testing calendar using risk-weighted prioritization criteria.
  7. Scenario 7Define testing procedures with objective evidence requirements and pass/fail rules.
  8. Scenario 8Review sample quality and identify where sample expansion is warranted.
  9. Scenario 9Create a QA checklist for consistency, traceability, and reviewer sign-off.
  10. Scenario 10Summarize recurring control failure themes and preventive action proposals.

IT Audit & Assurance Job Path

Role-based track for internal audit, control testing, and external assurance readiness.

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Path 1

Beginner Audit & Risk Basics

Beginner path for practical incident classification and evidence quality fundamentals used in day-to-day GRC work.

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Path 2

Intermediate Audit & Assurance Lab

Intermediate practice path for control testing sampling, findings calibration, and remediation tracking discipline.

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Path 3

Intermediate Audit Scoping Lab

Intermediate path focused on scope definition and evidence traceability for stronger assurance outcomes.

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Path 4

Audit Analytics & Assurance

Hands-on advanced training to design, govern, and operate audit analytics & assurance programs.

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Path 5

Audit Ready

Prepare for audits end-to-end: planning, control testing, findings management, and simulated audit execution.

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Path 6

ITGC & SOX Financial Controls: Scope, Access & Testing

Build practical skills for evaluating IT general controls and their impact on financial reporting through realistic scenarios involving access, change, operations, interfaces, evidence, and deficiencies.

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Path 7

ITGC & SOX Financial Controls: Provisioning & Evidence

Build practical skills for operating and assessing IT general controls that support reliable financial reporting, with scenario-driven exercises across access, change, operations, interfaces, evidence, and deficiency handling.

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ITGC & SOX Financial Controls: System Inventory & Execution

Practice scenario-driven governance, risk, and compliance work for IT general controls that support reliable financial reporting, with emphasis on SOX-scoped systems, evidence quality, and control operation.

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ITGC & SOX Financial Controls: Financial Close & Audit Readiness

Build practical skills for designing, operating, and assessing IT general controls that support reliable financial reporting, with scenario-driven exercises across access, change, operations, interfaces, evidence, and deficiency handling.

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Path 10

SOX ITGC Access Recertification & SoD Exception Governance

Build practical SOX ITGC skills through realistic access recertification and segregation of duties exception governance scenarios covering reviewer preparation, quarterly certification, privileged access, ERP conflicts, temporary exceptions, remediation tracking, and audit-ready reporting.

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Path 11

SOC 2: Scoping, Controls & Vendor Risk

A scenario-driven learning path focused on practical SOC 2 work across scoping, controls, evidence, vendor risk, and incident response in a growing SaaS company.

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Path 12

SOC 2: Communication and Information

A practical path focused on SOC 2 Common Criteria 2, covering internal communication, external communication, policy awareness, incident reporting, and evidence gathering through scenario-driven GRC exercises.

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Path 13

SOC 2: Risk Assessment & Monitoring

A practical, scenario-driven path focused on SOC 2 common criteria Path 3, teaching learners how to identify risks, evaluate control changes, assess vendor exposure, and maintain effective risk monitoring in a GRC program.

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Path 14

Framework Mastery

Build fluency across major security and compliance frameworks, then map controls across standards for unified assurance.

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Path 15

Integrated Assurance Mapping & Control Rationalization

Learn how to map overlapping compliance requirements, rationalize duplicate controls, assign evidence owners, and manage exceptions through practical GRC scenarios across onboarding, operations, monitoring, incidents, and reporting.

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Path 16

COBIT Governance & Management Foundations

Build practical COBIT skills through realistic governance, risk, control, assurance, and performance management scenarios across planning, operations, monitoring, exceptions, and reporting.

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Path 17

COSO Internal Control Foundations

Build practical COSO internal control skills through realistic business scenarios involving control design, risk assessment, control activities, information flows, monitoring, exceptions, and remediation across common enterprise processes.

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AI-marked scenarios

Scenario Submissions

Submit scenario responses for AI marking (up to 25 total per day and 1 per scenario per day).

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Case studies for this job path

Realistic governance narratives with guided comprehension questions.

Case Study

Internal Control Deficiency Evaluation and CAPA Governance at Northbridge Fulfillment

3 guided questions

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Case Study

Quarter-End Management Review Governance Breakdown

3 guided questions

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Case Study

Strengthening SOX Entity-Level Controls and Management Review Governance at Alder Ridge Health

3 guided questions

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Strengthening Management Review Governance for Quarterly SOX Certifications

3 guided questions

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Stabilize Management Review Governance for Quarter-End SOX Certification

3 guided questions

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Case Study

Segregation of Duties Governance for Enterprise Business Processes

3 guided questions

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Case Study

Segregation of Duties Governance for Grant-Funded Procurement

3 guided questions

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Case Study

Segregation of Duties Governance Beyond SOX in a Global ERP Program

3 guided questions

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Job path certificate

IT Audit & Assurance Job Path

Complete every lab, case study, and the scenario path above to unlock the IT Audit & Assurance Job Path certificate.

0 / 102 labs0 / 8 case studies0 / 1 scenario path0%

Scenario prompts in this job path

  1. Scenario 1Define an audit scope for a high-risk business process.
  2. Scenario 2Select a sample strategy and justify why it is risk-based.
  3. Scenario 3Document one control test with clear pass/fail criteria.
  4. Scenario 4Write a finding with condition, criteria, cause, and impact.
  5. Scenario 5Build a remediation tracker with owner, date, and verification step.
  6. Scenario 6Select key risk indicators and data sources to test control performance at scale.
  7. Scenario 7Design an analytic test to detect segregation-of-duties conflicts in transactional data.
  8. Scenario 8Evaluate false positives and tune thresholds while preserving assurance quality.
  9. Scenario 9Document reproducibility requirements for scripts, queries, and evidence snapshots.
  10. Scenario 10Present actionable findings that connect analytic results to remediation priorities.

Privacy Operations Analyst Job Path

For privacy analysts and privacy program operators handling governance, rights workflows, and regulatory compliance.

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Path 1

Data Security & Privacy Operations

Operationalize data classification, retention, privacy workflows, and control assurance across regulated datasets.

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Path 2

Privacy Governance Foundations — Track C

Alternate practice track for the Privacy Governance Foundations chapter. Covers ROPA operations, lawful basis design, vendor due diligence, retention controls, data subject rights, and breach coordination. Track A, B, and C cover the same learning objectives with different rooms — pick any one to complete the chapter.

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Privacy Operations & Compliance — Track C

Alternate practice track for the Privacy Operations & Compliance chapter. Covers data inventory, lawful basis decisions, DSAR triage, retention and disposal, vendor transfer governance, and incident coordination. Track A, B, and C cover the same learning objectives with different rooms — pick any one to complete the chapter.

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Path 4

Advanced Privacy Program Operations — Track C

Alternate practice track for the Advanced Privacy Program Operations chapter. Covers governance operating model, records mapping, impact assessments, data subject rights center, transfers, and incident retention. Track A, B, and C cover the same learning objectives with different rooms — pick any one to complete the chapter.

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Path 5

US State Privacy Law Compliance Operations

Build practical operating skills for managing US state privacy law obligations through intake, classification, consumer rights handling, vendor oversight, assessments, and incident-driven response workflows.

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Path 6

Enterprise Data Retention Governance & Legal Hold Operations

Build practical GRC skills for designing, operating, and improving enterprise data retention and legal hold processes across collaboration platforms, HR systems, finance records, messaging, backups, and cross-functional investigations.

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Path 7

DSAR Governance & Case Operations

Advance DSAR governance and case operations through complex scenarios involving intake triage, identity assurance, search defensibility, legal exceptions, cross-border coordination, deadline risk management, and executive reporting across multi-system privacy operations.

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Path 8

Enterprise Data Deletion Governance & Erasure Operations

Execute advanced data deletion governance through realistic cross-border, multi-system erasure scenarios involving retention conflicts, legal holds, backup constraints, processor oversight, identity resolution, exception handling, metrics, and executive reporting.

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Path 9

Enterprise Data Inventory & Records of Processing Governance

Develop advanced, scenario-driven governance skills for building and sustaining defensible enterprise data inventories and Records of Processing Activities across complex operating models, including M&A, shadow IT, AI use cases, vendor ecosystems, international transfers, incident response, and executive reporting.

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AI-marked scenarios

Scenario Submissions

Submit scenario responses for AI marking (up to 25 total per day and 1 per scenario per day).

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Case studies for this job path

Realistic governance narratives with guided comprehension questions.

Case Study

Freeze the Right Records During a Product Safety Lawsuit

3 guided questions

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Case Study

Legal Hold Breakdown During a Cross-Border Records Disposal Freeze

3 guided questions

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Case Study

Control the Lifecycle of Regulated Research Records

3 guided questions

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Align the Retention Schedule with Legal Hold Governance

3 guided questions

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Case Study

Govern Data Retention and Disposition for Claims Operations

3 guided questions

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Case Study

Stabilize Data Classification and Handling Operations After a Product Launch

3 guided questions

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Case Study

Contain a Vendor Oversight Gap for a HIPAA Business Associate

3 guided questions

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Case Study

Business Associate Oversight for a Cloud Transcription Vendor

3 guided questions

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Preserve HR and Procurement Records During a Cross-Border Vendor Dispute

3 guided questions

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Job path certificate

Privacy Operations Analyst Job Path

Complete every lab, case study, and the scenario path above to unlock the Privacy Operations Analyst Job Path certificate.

0 / 50 labs0 / 9 case studies0 / 1 scenario path0%

Scenario prompts in this job path

  1. Scenario 1Map a data flow and identify controller/processor roles.
  2. Scenario 2Evaluate lawful basis and notice requirements for one processing activity.
  3. Scenario 3Create a DSAR handling checklist with SLA milestones.
  4. Scenario 4Assess vendor transfer risk and define required safeguards.
  5. Scenario 5Draft a privacy incident escalation note with required stakeholders.
  6. Scenario 6Define data ownership roles for critical datasets used in risk and compliance reporting.
  7. Scenario 7Create quality rules for completeness, accuracy, timeliness, and consistency checks.
  8. Scenario 8Design exception handling workflows for failed data controls and unresolved defects.
  9. Scenario 9Assess lineage documentation gaps and prioritize remediation for audit-relevant flows.
  10. Scenario 10Prepare a governance dashboard for quality trend monitoring and accountability.

Security Engineering & Operations Job Path

Hands-on track for security engineers and operators: cloud security architecture, identity, application security, vulnerability management, incident response, operational technology, and ransomware readiness.

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Path 1

Cloud Security & Architecture

Build practical cloud governance and security architecture skills across IAM, network design, workloads, and resilience.

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Path 2

Cloud Governance, FinOps & Risk

Hands-on advanced training to design, govern, and operate cloud governance, finops & risk programs.

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Path 3

Identity Security Engineering

Design resilient IAM controls across joiner-mover-leaver lifecycle, privileged access, federation, and access reviews.

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Path 4

Application Security Assurance

Strengthen secure SDLC outcomes with threat modeling, code review governance, and release security controls.

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Path 5

Security Operations Engineering

Build practical SOC engineering capability across alerting quality, investigations, automation, and detection tuning.

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Path 6

Incident Response Operations

Train for real incident response: triage, containment, communications, and leadership decisions under pressure.

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Path 7

Cyber Resilience & Continuity

Hands-on advanced training to design, govern, and operate cyber resilience & continuity programs.

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Path 8

Vulnerability Management Operations

Hands-on advanced training to design, govern, and operate vulnerability management operations programs.

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Path 9

Zero Trust Implementation

Hands-on advanced training to design, govern, and operate zero trust implementation programs.

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Path 10

Operational Technology Security Governance

Build practical OT security governance skills through realistic scenarios covering asset governance, vendor and remote access oversight, maintenance and change control, monitoring and incident coordination, and remediation reporting across industrial environments.

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Path 11

Ransomware Readiness Governance

Build practical ransomware readiness governance skills through realistic GRC scenarios covering asset visibility, backup governance, third-party oversight, decision-making during incidents, and post-event remediation reporting.

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Path 12

CIS Controls Foundations in Practice

Practice applying CIS Controls v8 through realistic GRC scenarios covering asset visibility, software governance, data protection, secure configuration, access control, logging, vulnerabilities, and response-oriented compliance workflows.

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Path 13

Cryptographic Key Management Governance & Key Lifecycle Oversight

Work through advanced GRC scenarios that test governance over cryptographic key inventories, ownership, generation, distribution, storage, rotation, retirement, exception handling, third-party dependencies, and executive reporting across complex enterprise environments.

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Path 14

SBOM Consumer Governance & Vulnerability Response

Develop advanced, scenario-driven governance skills for consuming supplier SBOMs at scale, validating quality and trust, triaging vulnerability exposure, managing exceptions, and steering executive decisions across procurement, engineering, legal, and incident response workflows.

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AI-marked scenarios

Scenario Submissions

Submit scenario responses for AI marking (up to 25 total per day and 1 per scenario per day).

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Case studies for this job path

Realistic governance narratives with guided comprehension questions.

Case Study

Quarterly Access Review for a Clinical Research Platform

3 guided questions

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Case Study

Identity and Access Review Governance for JML and Privileged Access Oversight

3 guided questions

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Case Study

Govern KMS Key Rotation and Retirement for Regulated Analytics Workloads

3 guided questions

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Case Study

Govern DevSecOps Controls for a Regulated Product Release

3 guided questions

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Case Study

Architecture Review Board Escalation for an Unapproved Customer Analytics Integration

3 guided questions

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Case Study

ARB Governance for a Regional CRM Modernization

3 guided questions

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Case Study

Stabilize Baseline Drift in a Regional Lending Platform

3 guided questions

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Case Study

Prioritize Intelligence-Led Risk Action After Vendor Credential Abuse

3 guided questions

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Case Study

Govern a New Vulnerability Disclosure Program After an Uncoordinated Researcher Report

3 guided questions

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Case Study

Triage Rules for a Public Vulnerability Reporting Channel

3 guided questions

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Case Study

Open Source Release Governance and SBOM Assurance for a Telehealth Platform

3 guided questions

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Case Study

Stabilizing SBOM Assurance for an Open Source Release Pipeline

3 guided questions

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Case Study

Govern SBOM Quality for a Critical Vendor Release

3 guided questions

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Case Study

Governing Remote Vendor Access for a Water Treatment OT Environment

3 guided questions

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Job path certificate

Security Engineering & Operations Job Path

Complete every lab, case study, and the scenario path above to unlock the Security Engineering & Operations Job Path certificate.

0 / 77 labs0 / 14 case studies0 / 1 scenario path0%

Scenario prompts in this job path

  1. Scenario 1Prioritize attack scenarios by impact and likelihood.
  2. Scenario 2Map detection coverage to a chosen threat scenario.
  3. Scenario 3Define incident command roles for a simulated outage.
  4. Scenario 4Document business continuity dependencies for one critical service.
  5. Scenario 5Create a post-incident improvement plan with measurable outcomes.
  6. Scenario 6Classify a security event and determine escalation based on impact and confidence.
  7. Scenario 7Draft an incident timeline capturing detection, containment, eradication, and recovery.
  8. Scenario 8Define communications for legal, executive, customer, and regulator stakeholders.
  9. Scenario 9Evaluate evidence preservation and chain-of-custody requirements for investigation.
  10. Scenario 10Write a post-incident review with root cause, lessons learned, and prioritized actions.

Security Compliance Engineer Job Path

Framework-focused track for security compliance engineers: NIST CSF 2.0, ISO 27001, multi-framework mapping, control baselines, exception governance, and security metrics.

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Path 1

NIST CSF 2.0 Core Functions in Practice

Apply the NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 through practical GRC scenarios across Govern, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover activities.

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Path 2

NIST CSF 2.0 Govern Function

A practical, scenario-driven path focused on the Govern function in NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0, helping learners apply governance, policy, risk oversight, roles, and supply chain expectations in realistic GRC situations.

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Path 3

NIST CSF 2.0: Governance & Incident Response

A scenario-driven learning path focused on applying NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 concepts to practical governance, risk, and compliance situations. Learners analyze policies, asset inventories, third-party risks, incident workflows, and improvement planning through hands-on GRC tasks.

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Path 4

NIST CSF 2.0: Risk Assessment & Executive Communication

A hands-on learning path focused on practical governance, risk, and compliance scenarios using NIST CSF 2.0. Learners work through realistic situations involving governance, asset understanding, risk assessment, control improvement, and communication with leadership.

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Path 5

ISO 27001: ISMS Foundations & Certification Readiness

A scenario-driven learning path covering core ISO 27001 concepts, implementation steps, risk treatment, documentation, internal audit, and continual improvement in practical GRC contexts.

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Path 6

ISO 27001: Control Implementation & Operations

A practical, scenario-driven path focused on implementing, operating, and evidencing ISO 27001 controls in real-world GRC environments.

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Path 7

ISO 27001: Scope, Controls & Continual Improvement

A practical, scenario-driven path for learning how to apply ISO 27001 concepts in real GRC situations, from scope and risk assessment to controls, incidents, audits, and continual improvement.

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Path 8

ISO 27001: Risk Assessment & Corrective Actions

A practical, scenario-driven path for learning how to apply ISO 27001 concepts in real GRC situations, from scoping and risk assessment to controls, incidents, audits, and continual improvement.

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Path 9

ISO 27001: Access Management & Supplier Assurance

A practical, scenario-driven learning path covering core ISO 27001 concepts through a Path 5-focused GRC lens, including scope, risk assessment, controls, incident response, supplier management, and audit readiness.

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Path 10

ISO 27001: Clause 6 Planning & Objectives

A practical, scenario-driven path focused on ISO 27001 Clause 6 planning activities, including risks and opportunities, information security objectives, and planning changes within an ISMS.

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Path 11

Framework Mastery

Build fluency across major security and compliance frameworks, then map controls across standards for unified assurance.

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Path 12

Security Metrics & KRI Design

Build the skills to design, govern, and operationalise security metrics and key risk indicators — from taxonomy and data quality through to threshold calibration and escalation governance.

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Path 13

NIST RMF Foundations Through Practical GRC Scenarios

Build hands-on NIST Risk Management Framework skills through realistic scenarios covering system categorization, control selection, implementation planning, assessment readiness, authorization support, and continuous monitoring across public sector and regulated environments.

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Path 14

CIS Controls Foundations in Practice

Practice applying CIS Controls v8 through realistic GRC scenarios covering asset visibility, software governance, data protection, secure configuration, access control, logging, vulnerabilities, and response-oriented compliance workflows.

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AI-marked scenarios

Scenario Submissions

Submit scenario responses for AI marking (up to 25 total per day and 1 per scenario per day).

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Case studies for this job path

Realistic governance narratives with guided comprehension questions.

Case Study

Govern a Firewall Logging Exception with Compensating Controls

3 guided questions

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Case Study

Govern a Time-Bound Security Exception for Vendor Access

3 guided questions

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Case Study

Executive KRI Governance for a Rapidly Expanding SaaS Business

3 guided questions

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Job path certificate

Security Compliance Engineer Job Path

Complete every lab, case study, and the scenario path above to unlock the Security Compliance Engineer Job Path certificate.

0 / 102 labs0 / 3 case studies0 / 1 scenario path0%

Third-Party Risk Analyst Job Path

For analysts managing vendor onboarding, due diligence, assurance, and ongoing third-party oversight.

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Path 1

Third-Party Risk Management

Build practical vendor risk workflows from assessment and due diligence through contracting and ongoing monitoring.

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Path 2

Third-Party Assurance Programs

Hands-on advanced training to design, govern, and operate third-party assurance programs programs.

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Path 3

Intermediate Vendor Assurance Lab

Intermediate path for vendor risk scoring and remediation governance with practical assurance workflows.

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Path 4

Third-Party Anti-Bribery Due Diligence

Build practical skills to evaluate, onboard, monitor, and escalate bribery and corruption risks involving agents, distributors, consultants, and other third parties through scenario-driven GRC workflows.

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DORA ICT Third-Party Oversight Operating Model

Build a practical operating model for oversight of ICT third-party providers under DORA, using scenario-driven governance, monitoring, contracting, testing, incident coordination, and exit planning activities.

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Path 6

Third-Party Risk Issue Management & Exit Readiness

Practice managing third-party risk issues from identification through remediation, escalation, contingency planning, and exit readiness using realistic vendor oversight scenarios across onboarding, operations, monitoring, incidents, and termination planning.

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Path 7

Sanctions Compliance Governance & Screening Operations

Build practical sanctions compliance skills through realistic GRC scenarios involving governance design, customer and payment screening, alert handling, escalation, investigations, remediation, and reporting across global operations.

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Path 8

HIPAA Business Associate Oversight & Monitoring

Build practical HIPAA third-party governance skills through realistic scenarios involving vendor classification, BAAs, onboarding reviews, ongoing monitoring, incident coordination, exceptions, and remediation across healthcare business associate relationships.

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Path 9

HIPAA Business Associate Lifecycle Governance

Build practical HIPAA third-party governance skills through realistic scenarios involving vendor classification, business associate agreements, due diligence, operational oversight, incident coordination, and remediation across healthcare ecosystems.

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Path 10

Outsourcing Governance & Intragroup Service Oversight

Navigate advanced GRC decisions for third-party and intragroup service oversight across intake, contracting, criticality assessment, control reliance, concentration risk, incident escalation, remediation, and executive reporting in complex regulated environments.

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Path 11

Third-Party Concentration Risk Governance & Exit Strategy Planning

Build advanced GRC judgment for identifying, quantifying, governing, and exiting concentrated third-party dependencies across critical services, cloud platforms, managed providers, data processors, and niche vendors. Practice scenario-driven decisions involving board reporting, contract design, financial and operational stress, substitutability analysis, incident-driven exits, and regulator-facing remediation.

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Path 12

Vendor Security Incident Notification & Joint Response Governance

Work through advanced third-party incident governance scenarios involving contractual notification triggers, joint response operating models, evidence negotiation, regulatory time-pressure, cross-border constraints, executive escalation, and post-incident remediation across complex vendor ecosystems.

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AI-marked scenarios

Scenario Submissions

Submit scenario responses for AI marking (up to 25 total per day and 1 per scenario per day).

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Case studies for this job path

Realistic governance narratives with guided comprehension questions.

Case Study

Map Fourth-Party Exposure in a Critical Claims Processing Chain

3 guided questions

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Case Study

Stabilize Sanctions Governance After Screening Alert Backlogs

3 guided questions

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Case Study

Stabilize Sanctions Screening Governance After Alert Backlogs

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Software Licensing Compliance and Audit Response Governance at Northbridge Analytics

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Governing Open Source License Obligations Before a Public Sector Release

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Cyber Due Diligence and Integration Governance for a Manufacturing Acquisition

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Cyber Due Diligence and Integration Governance for a Planned Acquisition

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Cyber Due Diligence and Integration Governance for a Cross-Border Acquisition

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Govern ICS2 Shipment Data and Supplier Attestations Before EU Filing

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Escalate a Distributor Screening and Export Classification Conflict

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Third-Party Risk Analyst Job Path

Complete every lab, case study, and the scenario path above to unlock the Third-Party Risk Analyst Job Path certificate.

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Scenario prompts in this job path

  1. Scenario 1Triage a high-risk vendor onboarding request and identify required due diligence evidence.
  2. Scenario 2Assess anti-bribery red flags and document escalation rationale.
  3. Scenario 3Evaluate an ITGC deficiency and classify impact to financial reporting.
  4. Scenario 4Draft a remediation plan with control owner, due date, and retest criteria.
  5. Scenario 5Prepare a regulator-ready summary with supporting evidence references.
  6. Scenario 6Build a tiering model to align due diligence depth with vendor criticality.
  7. Scenario 7Evaluate SOC, ISO, and questionnaire evidence for control design and operating effectiveness.
  8. Scenario 8Define trigger events for reassessment, continuous monitoring, and contract review.
  9. Scenario 9Draft a remediation plan for material findings with accountability and verification steps.
  10. Scenario 10Create a governance summary of vendor risk trends and concentration exposures.

GRC Program Manager Job Path

For leads and managers running enterprise governance operating models, reporting, and cross-functional delivery.

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Enterprise GRC Program Management

Build practical skills to run an enterprise GRC function through governance design, operating cadences, issue handling, metrics, committee reporting, and cross-functional decision-making.

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Enterprise GRC Program Management II

Build enterprise GRC capabilities through charter design, risk intake, policy exceptions, issue escalation, executive reporting, and cross-functional assurance planning.

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Governance & Leadership

Develop executive-ready governance skills: policy lifecycle, reporting, operating models, and risk culture enablement.

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Executive Cyber Risk Reporting

Master the craft of translating cyber risk data into board-level narratives — covering dashboard design, governance actions, remediation storytelling, and cross-functional KRI operating models.

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Board Cyber Oversight & Director Governance

Practice board-level cyber oversight through realistic governance scenarios involving strategy approval, risk appetite, third-party and regulatory scrutiny, incident decision-making, executive challenge, and remediation tracking.

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Regulatory Change Management & Compliance Obligations

Build practical skills for identifying, assessing, assigning, implementing, monitoring, and reporting regulatory changes through realistic GRC scenarios across legal, compliance, operational, incident, and governance workflows.

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Policy Exception Management & Compensating Controls

Practice managing policy exceptions and compensating controls through realistic GRC scenarios covering intake, risk evaluation, approvals, operations, monitoring, incident handling, remediation, and reporting.

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Security Awareness & Culture

Hands-on advanced training to design, govern, and operate security awareness & culture programs.

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Insider Threat Program Governance: Charter & Escalation

Build a practical insider threat governance program through chartering, data handling rules, escalation design, and oversight decisions grounded in realistic GRC scenarios.

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Insider Threat Program Governance: Investigations & Assurance

Build a practical insider threat governance program by defining oversight, triage, investigations, and continuous improvement controls for real-world organizational scenarios.

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Quantitative Risk Methods: FAIR Analysis & Loss Estimation

Practice applying quantitative cyber risk methods such as FAIR to estimate loss exposure, compare treatment options, and support defensible GRC decisions in realistic business scenarios.

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Quantitative Risk Methods: Calibrated Estimation & Decision Support

Apply practical quantitative cyber risk methods, including FAIR-style analysis, calibrated estimation, loss event modeling, and decision support in realistic GRC scenarios.

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ESG Environmental Governance: Foundations & Oversight

Build practical ESG governance skills through scenario-driven exercises covering environmental data controls, supplier oversight, climate risk decisions, reporting governance, incident response, and board-level accountability.

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ESG Environmental Governance: Scope & Performance

Build practical skills for governing environmental ESG obligations through scenarios involving data quality, supplier oversight, climate risk, target tracking, incident response, and board reporting.

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ESG Environmental Governance: Obligations & Assurance

Build practical GRC skills for environmental ESG scenarios by identifying obligations, setting controls, validating evidence, managing incidents, overseeing vendors, and reporting performance without overstating results.

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ESG Environmental Governance: GHG & Emissions Controls

Build practical skills for governing environmental ESG obligations through scenario-driven controls, evidence, escalation, and operational decision-making.

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ESG Environmental Governance: Reporting & Board Accountability

Build practical ESG capability by handling environmental governance scenarios involving emissions data, supplier oversight, control evidence, reporting decisions, incident response, and board-level accountability.

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Compliance Training & Attestation Governance

Advance enterprise governance for mandatory compliance training and control attestation programs across regulated teams, third parties, executives, and distributed operations. Navigate edge cases involving role-based obligations, evidence quality, exceptions, overdue populations, investigations, metric design, and board-level reporting under real-world operational pressure.

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Anti-Bribery & Corruption Internal Investigations Governance

Run advanced anti-bribery and corruption investigations governance across intake, triage, evidence preservation, cross-border fact-finding, privilege strategy, disciplinary decisions, third-party misconduct, executive escalation, remediation, and regulator-facing reporting through realistic enterprise scenarios.

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Case studies for this job path

Realistic governance narratives with guided comprehension questions.

Case Study

Board Oversight of Cyber Risk After a Cloud Control Failure

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Governing New Regulatory Obligations After a Cross-Border Product Launch

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Update Regulatory Obligations After a Cross-Border Product Expansion

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Coordinating a State Regulator Examination Response

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Policy Exception and Risk Acceptance Governance for Legacy Vendor Access

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Policy Exception and Waiver Operations for Legacy Endpoint Encryption

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Govern a Firewall Logging Exception with a Compensating Control

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Protecting Speak-Up Integrity During a Procurement Investigation

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Whistleblower Hotline Governance and Investigation Triage at Northstar Biologics

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Scaling an Ethics Hotline: Intake SLAs, Escalations, and Independence

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Repair Governance Gaps in a Global Speak-Up Program

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Vendor Bank Detail Change Controls After a Suspected CEO Spoof

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Cyber Insurance Readiness and Renewal Governance for a Manufacturing Group

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Cyber Insurance Readiness and Renewal Governance for a Mid-Market Manufacturer

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Prepare Claim-Ready Governance After a Ransomware Near Miss

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Governance Gaps in Sustainability Disclosure Readiness

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Govern a Materiality Assessment for Enterprise Risk and Disclosure

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Govern Third-Party Access and Incident Escalation for an Open Banking Payment Initiation Service

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Govern WCAG Compliance for a Multi-Department Public Services Portal

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GRC Program Manager Job Path

Complete every lab, case study, and the scenario path above to unlock the GRC Program Manager Job Path certificate.

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Scenario prompts in this job path

  1. Scenario 1Define governance forum cadence and decision rights for a new GRC program.
  2. Scenario 2Create KPI/KRI metrics for executive reporting and board visibility.
  3. Scenario 3Prioritize competing remediation initiatives under constrained capacity.
  4. Scenario 4Resolve a cross-functional ownership conflict using a RACI approach.
  5. Scenario 5Write a quarterly GRC update with top risks, actions, and blockers.
  6. Scenario 6Define a measurable loss event scenario using threat, asset, and effect.
  7. Scenario 7Estimate frequency and probable loss magnitude ranges with assumptions.
  8. Scenario 8Compare treatment options using expected risk reduction and cost.
  9. Scenario 9Document uncertainty drivers and sensitivity to key assumptions.
  10. Scenario 10Present a decision recommendation in business terms for leadership.

Business Continuity Manager Job Path

For leaders designing resilience programs, coordinating crisis response, and strengthening service continuity.

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Business Continuity Impact Analysis & Recovery Strategy

Build practical business continuity skills through realistic GRC scenarios involving impact analysis, recovery prioritization, dependency mapping, alternate operating models, crisis decision-making, and recovery strategy design across enterprise functions.

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Business Impact Analysis & Recovery Prioritization

Build practical skills in assessing business impact, defining recovery priorities, and translating disruption scenarios into actionable resilience decisions across operations, technology, vendors, and executive governance.

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Operational Resilience: IBS Identification & Mapping

Build practical skills in identifying, scoping, and mapping Important Business Services through realistic operational resilience scenarios covering customer journeys, supporting resources, dependencies, tolerances, governance, and change handling.

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Operational Resilience: IBS Mapping & Dependency Governance

Build practical skills in identifying important business services, mapping dependencies, defining impact tolerances, validating resilience information, and responding to mapping gaps across real-world operational resilience scenarios.

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Cyber Resilience & Continuity

Hands-on advanced training to design, govern, and operate cyber resilience & continuity programs.

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Incident Response Operations

Train for real incident response: triage, containment, communications, and leadership decisions under pressure.

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Ransomware Readiness Governance

Build practical ransomware readiness governance skills through realistic GRC scenarios covering asset visibility, backup governance, third-party oversight, decision-making during incidents, and post-event remediation reporting.

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Security Operations Engineering

Build practical SOC engineering capability across alerting quality, investigations, automation, and detection tuning.

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Vulnerability Management Operations

Hands-on advanced training to design, govern, and operate vulnerability management operations programs.

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Business Impact Analysis Governance for Shared Services & Internal Dependencies

Apply advanced BIA governance techniques to shared services and internal dependencies using scenario-driven decisions across service intake, operational change, resilience monitoring, incident prioritization, and remediation reporting.

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Operational Resilience Impact Tolerance Calibration & Breach Escalation Governance

Calibrate impact tolerances with quantitative rigor and govern breach escalation across severe but plausible scenarios involving payments, customer access, market activity, third parties, cyber disruption, data integrity loss, and executive decision making.

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Case studies for this job path

Realistic governance narratives with guided comprehension questions.

Case Study

Critical Process Mapping for a Regional Pharmacy Distributor

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Govern Impact Tolerances for a Retail Broker's Trade Confirmation Service

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Payment Outage Scenario Testing and Impact Tolerance Breach Governance

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Executive Escalation During a Product Safety Recall

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Classify and Escalate a Payment Platform Outage Under DORA

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Coordinate NIS2 Governance and Incident Reporting for a Cross-Border SaaS Provider

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Coordinate NIS2 Governance and Incident Reporting for a Cross-Border Logistics Provider

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Coordinate NIS2 Governance and Incident Reporting After a Supplier-Linked Outage

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Classifying a Significant Cyber Event Under NIS2 Governance

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Cross-border Outage at an MSP: NIS2 Operational Readiness and Reporting

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Business Continuity Manager Job Path

Complete every lab, case study, and the scenario path above to unlock the Business Continuity Manager Job Path certificate.

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Scenario prompts in this job path

  1. Scenario 1Define critical business services and map maximum tolerable downtime for each.
  2. Scenario 2Document dependency chains across people, process, technology, and third parties.
  3. Scenario 3Design crisis command roles and decision thresholds for service disruption events.
  4. Scenario 4Run a tabletop exercise scenario and capture response timeline strengths and gaps.
  5. Scenario 5Build a continuity improvement backlog with ownership, due dates, and validation tests.
  6. Scenario 6Classify a security event and determine escalation based on impact and confidence.
  7. Scenario 7Draft an incident timeline capturing detection, containment, eradication, and recovery.
  8. Scenario 8Define communications for legal, executive, customer, and regulator stakeholders.
  9. Scenario 9Identify critical outsourced services and map recovery requirements for each.
  10. Scenario 10Evaluate supplier resiliency evidence and define minimum assurance thresholds.

Data Governance Lead Job Path

For practitioners building data ownership models, quality controls, and governance operating rhythms.

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Data Security & Privacy Operations

Operationalize data classification, retention, privacy workflows, and control assurance across regulated datasets.

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Privacy Governance Foundations — Track C

Alternate practice track for the Privacy Governance Foundations chapter. Covers ROPA operations, lawful basis design, vendor due diligence, retention controls, data subject rights, and breach coordination. Track A, B, and C cover the same learning objectives with different rooms — pick any one to complete the chapter.

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Privacy Operations & Compliance — Track C

Alternate practice track for the Privacy Operations & Compliance chapter. Covers data inventory, lawful basis decisions, DSAR triage, retention and disposal, vendor transfer governance, and incident coordination. Track A, B, and C cover the same learning objectives with different rooms — pick any one to complete the chapter.

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Advanced Privacy Program Operations — Track C

Alternate practice track for the Advanced Privacy Program Operations chapter. Covers governance operating model, records mapping, impact assessments, data subject rights center, transfers, and incident retention. Track A, B, and C cover the same learning objectives with different rooms — pick any one to complete the chapter.

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Technology Asset Lifecycle Governance

Practice governing technology assets from intake through retirement using realistic GRC scenarios covering acquisition, inventory, ownership, change, monitoring, exceptions, disposal, and reporting.

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Enterprise GRC Program Management II

Build enterprise GRC capabilities through charter design, risk intake, policy exceptions, issue escalation, executive reporting, and cross-functional assurance planning.

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Enterprise Data Retention Governance & Legal Hold Operations

Build practical GRC skills for designing, operating, and improving enterprise data retention and legal hold processes across collaboration platforms, HR systems, finance records, messaging, backups, and cross-functional investigations.

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Business Impact Analysis Data Governance & Evidence Quality

Build practical beginner-level skills for governing BIA data and evaluating evidence quality across intake, analysis, operations, monitoring, exceptions, and reporting scenarios.

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Integrated Assurance Mapping & Control Rationalization

Learn how to map overlapping compliance requirements, rationalize duplicate controls, assign evidence owners, and manage exceptions through practical GRC scenarios across onboarding, operations, monitoring, incidents, and reporting.

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Enterprise Data Lineage Governance & Critical Data Element Control

Build advanced capability to govern enterprise data lineage and critical data elements through high-stakes scenarios involving regulatory change, cross-border transformations, model consumption, control failures, executive escalation, and remediation planning across finance, risk, operations, and technology domains.

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Enterprise Data Minimization Governance & Purpose Limitation Operations

Run advanced, scenario-driven governance operations for data minimization and purpose limitation across intake, design, production use, monitoring, exceptions, and executive reporting in complex enterprise environments.

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Enterprise Data Inventory & Records of Processing Governance

Develop advanced, scenario-driven governance skills for building and sustaining defensible enterprise data inventories and Records of Processing Activities across complex operating models, including M&A, shadow IT, AI use cases, vendor ecosystems, international transfers, incident response, and executive reporting.

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Scenario Submissions

Submit scenario responses for AI marking (up to 25 total per day and 1 per scenario per day).

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Case studies for this job path

Realistic governance narratives with guided comprehension questions.

Case Study

Repair Governance Gaps in a Product Analytics Data Domain

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Stabilize Critical Data Quality Controls for a Master Data Governance Program

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Tracing Revenue Recognition Data Across Policy Systems

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Stabilize Data Classification and Handling Operations After a Product Launch

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Govern Data Retention and Disposition for Claims Operations

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Freeze the Right Records During a Product Safety Lawsuit

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Govern Retired Engineering Assets After a Data Center Exit

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Control the Lifecycle of Regulated Research Records

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Align the Retention Schedule with Legal Hold Governance

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Data Governance Lead Job Path

Complete every lab, case study, and the scenario path above to unlock the Data Governance Lead Job Path certificate.

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Scenario prompts in this job path

  1. Scenario 1Define data ownership roles for critical datasets used in risk and compliance reporting.
  2. Scenario 2Create quality rules for completeness, accuracy, timeliness, and consistency checks.
  3. Scenario 3Design exception handling workflows for failed data controls and unresolved defects.
  4. Scenario 4Assess lineage documentation gaps and prioritize remediation for audit-relevant flows.
  5. Scenario 5Prepare a governance dashboard for quality trend monitoring and accountability.
  6. Scenario 6Map a data flow and identify controller/processor roles for a business-critical system.
  7. Scenario 7Design control self-assessment workflows and evidence retention standards for data assets.
  8. Scenario 8Classify findings by severity, systemic impact, and regulatory sensitivity for data quality issues.
  9. Scenario 9Define risk screening criteria for data migration and system change requests.
  10. Scenario 10Build a policy taxonomy aligned to data governance obligations and retention requirements.

AI Governance & Model Risk Job Path

For teams establishing AI oversight, model inventory governance, and accountable risk controls.

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AI Governance & Model Risk Management

Build practical AI governance and model risk management skills through realistic GRC scenarios covering intake, use-case classification, data and vendor risk, validation, human oversight, monitoring, incident handling, and remediation across enterprise AI deployments.

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Model Risk Management Governance

Build practical governance skills for model risk management through realistic scenarios involving model intake, roles and accountability, committee oversight, policy exceptions, change governance, monitoring, issue escalation, and board reporting across the model lifecycle.

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Risk Management Professional

Master advanced risk assessment methods, treatment planning, monitoring, and executive reporting through practical scenarios.

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Path 4

Framework Mastery

Build fluency across major security and compliance frameworks, then map controls across standards for unified assurance.

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Governance & Leadership

Develop executive-ready governance skills: policy lifecycle, reporting, operating models, and risk culture enablement.

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Enterprise GRC Program Management

Build practical skills to run an enterprise GRC function through governance design, operating cadences, issue handling, metrics, committee reporting, and cross-functional decision-making.

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EU AI Act Compliance Operations

Practice operating an EU AI Act compliance program through realistic GRC scenarios covering system intake, risk classification, conformity obligations, transparency controls, post-market monitoring, incident handling, supplier oversight, and remediation reporting.

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Control Design & Operating Effectiveness Testing

Build practical GRC skills for evaluating whether controls are designed appropriately and operating effectively through realistic scenarios covering onboarding, daily operations, monitoring, exceptions, remediation, and reporting.

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Path 9

ISO/IEC 42001 Foundations in Practice

Build practical AI management system skills through realistic ISO/IEC 42001 scenarios involving governance, risk assessment, supplier oversight, operational controls, monitoring, incidents, and reporting.

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ISO/IEC 42001 Applied Management System Scenarios

Practice AI management system controls through realistic ISO/IEC 42001 scenarios covering context, risk treatment, supplier oversight, operational governance, monitoring, incidents, and continual improvement.

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Scenario Submissions

Submit scenario responses for AI marking (up to 25 total per day and 1 per scenario per day).

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Case studies for this job path

Realistic governance narratives with guided comprehension questions.

Case Study

Human Oversight Gaps in a Claims Triage AI Rollout

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Escalating Governance Gaps in a Credit Decision Model Program

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Coordinate EU AI Act Compliance for a High-Risk Hiring System

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Govern a Time-Bound Security Exception for Vendor Access

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Govern a Firewall Logging Exception with a Compensating Control

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AI Governance & Model Risk Job Path

Complete every lab, case study, and the scenario path above to unlock the AI Governance & Model Risk Job Path certificate.

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Scenario prompts in this job path

  1. Scenario 1Classify an AI use case by risk tier and define required governance checkpoints.
  2. Scenario 2Document model inventory fields including owner, purpose, data sources, and controls.
  3. Scenario 3Evaluate bias, explainability, and performance monitoring requirements for deployment.
  4. Scenario 4Draft incident response procedures for harmful output, drift, or control failure events.
  5. Scenario 5Prepare board-level reporting on model risk exposure and mitigation status.
  6. Scenario 6Build a control map linking AI-specific risks to preventive and detective controls.
  7. Scenario 7Define approval workflows, review cadence, and exception governance for model deployments.
  8. Scenario 8Define risk screening criteria for AI use cases entering production environments.
  9. Scenario 9Map recurring AI compliance obligations to owner teams and operating cadence.
  10. Scenario 10Resolve a cross-functional ownership conflict for shared AI models using a RACI approach.

Compliance Analyst / Regulatory Compliance Analyst Job Path

For compliance analysts tracking regulatory obligations, managing change programmes, and ensuring ongoing adherence to industry standards.

Free scenarios available

Path 1

Compliance Analyst

Learn how to collect evidence, prepare audits, and manage compliance obligations with repeatable analyst workflows.

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GRC Fundamentals

Build your foundation in governance, risk, and compliance. Learn core concepts, key terminology, and how GRC frameworks work together.

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GRC Primer Practice

A beginner-friendly path to practice core GRC concepts with short, practical rooms before moving into larger role-based tracks.

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Risk & Compliance Operations

An intermediate path focused on day-to-day risk analysis, treatment decisions, KRIs, and compliance operations execution.

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Framework Mastery

Build fluency across major security and compliance frameworks, then map controls across standards for unified assurance.

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Path 6

Regulatory Change Management & Compliance Obligations

Build practical skills for identifying, assessing, assigning, implementing, monitoring, and reporting regulatory changes through realistic GRC scenarios across legal, compliance, operational, incident, and governance workflows.

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Path 7

Policy Exception Management & Compensating Controls

Practice managing policy exceptions and compensating controls through realistic GRC scenarios covering intake, risk evaluation, approvals, operations, monitoring, incident handling, remediation, and reporting.

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US State Privacy Law Compliance Operations

Build practical operating skills for managing US state privacy law obligations through intake, classification, consumer rights handling, vendor oversight, assessments, and incident-driven response workflows.

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Path 9

PCI DSS Cardholder Data Governance

Build practical PCI DSS skills through realistic GRC scenarios involving scoping, access control, evidence handling, third-party oversight, and incident response for cardholder data environments.

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PCI DSS: Cardholder Data Governance & Incident Response

Build practical PCI DSS skills through scenario-driven governance exercises focused on scoping, access, logging, third-party oversight, and incident response for cardholder data environments.

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Enterprise KYC / CDD Governance & Periodic Review Operations

Advance enterprise-grade KYC and customer due diligence judgment through complex governance, periodic review, risk segmentation, exception handling, remediation, and executive reporting scenarios spanning onboarding inheritances, BAU review operations, trigger events, data quality failures, and regulator-facing decisions.

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AML Transaction Monitoring Governance & Alert Disposition Oversight

Build advanced AML governance skills through realistic oversight scenarios covering model governance, alert disposition quality, threshold change control, escalation decisioning, backlog risk treatment, investigator consistency, sanctions and fraud interface boundaries, regulator-facing documentation, and board-level reporting for transaction monitoring programs.

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Regulatory Complaint Management & Escalation Governance

Work through advanced, scenario-driven complaint governance challenges involving multi-channel intake, jurisdictional classification, escalation thresholds, vulnerable customer risk, root cause analysis, remediation governance, executive reporting, and regulator-facing decision making.

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Scenario Submissions

Free members: 1 AI-graded submission per week across the intro scenario tracks.

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Case studies for this job path

Realistic governance narratives with guided comprehension questions.

Case Study

Governing New Regulatory Obligations After a Cross-Border Product Launch

3 guided questions

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Update Regulatory Obligations After a Cross-Border Product Expansion

3 guided questions

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Coordinating a State Regulator Examination Response

3 guided questions

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Stabilize Sanctions Governance After Screening Alert Backlogs

3 guided questions

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Stabilize Sanctions Screening Governance After Alert Backlogs

3 guided questions

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Govern Third-Party Access and Incident Escalation for an Open Banking Payment Initiation Service

3 guided questions

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Escalating KYC Gaps in a High-Risk SME Onboarding Queue

3 guided questions

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Software Licensing Compliance and Audit Response Governance at Northbridge Analytics

3 guided questions

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Stabilize Digital Accessibility Compliance Operations After a Public Portal Rollout

3 guided questions

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Govern WCAG Compliance for a Multi-Department Public Services Portal

3 guided questions

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Policy Exception and Risk Acceptance Governance for Legacy Vendor Access

3 guided questions

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Policy Exception and Waiver Operations for Legacy Endpoint Encryption

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Compliance Analyst / Regulatory Compliance Analyst Job Path

Complete every lab, case study, and the scenario path above to unlock the Compliance Analyst / Regulatory Compliance Analyst Job Path certificate.

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Scenario prompts in this job path

  1. Scenario 1Triage an incoming regulation and map impacted obligations to business functions.
  2. Scenario 2Estimate implementation complexity, deadlines, and dependency risks for each obligation.
  3. Scenario 3Define control and policy changes needed to satisfy new regulatory requirements.
  4. Scenario 4Create stakeholder governance for legal interpretation, implementation, and validation.
  5. Scenario 5Deliver an executive readiness update with risks, blockers, and decision requests.
  6. Scenario 6Map recurring compliance obligations to owner teams and operating cadence.
  7. Scenario 7Design control self-assessment workflows and evidence retention standards.
  8. Scenario 8Evaluate control exceptions and determine compensating control requirements.
  9. Scenario 9Develop a centralized obligations tracker with status and due-date governance.
  10. Scenario 10Prepare an annual compliance effectiveness review with improvement priorities.

Risk Manager / Operational Risk Analyst Job Path

For risk managers and operational risk analysts running risk registers, RCSA programmes, appetite frameworks, and control effectiveness reviews.

Free scenarios available

Path 1

Risk Management Professional

Master advanced risk assessment methods, treatment planning, monitoring, and executive reporting through practical scenarios.

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Risk & Compliance Operations

An intermediate path focused on day-to-day risk analysis, treatment decisions, KRIs, and compliance operations execution.

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Beginner Risk & Controls Workshop

An entry-level workshop path covering risk scoring, appetite basics, and understanding control outcomes vs activities.

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Path 4

Intermediate Risk Treatment Lab

Intermediate path focused on practical risk-treatment prioritization and decision quality in constrained environments.

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Path 5

Control Assurance Practice

Intermediate path focused on control evidence, audit readiness, and practical assurance execution across day-to-day programs.

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Enterprise Risk Appetite & Tolerance Frameworks

Practice building and applying enterprise risk appetite and tolerance frameworks through realistic GRC scenarios covering strategy setting, operational decision-making, monitoring, exception handling, and board reporting.

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Framework Mastery

Build fluency across major security and compliance frameworks, then map controls across standards for unified assurance.

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Control Design & Operating Effectiveness Testing

Build practical GRC skills for evaluating whether controls are designed appropriately and operating effectively through realistic scenarios covering onboarding, daily operations, monitoring, exceptions, remediation, and reporting.

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Path 9

Quantitative Risk Methods: FAIR Analysis & Loss Estimation

Practice applying quantitative cyber risk methods such as FAIR to estimate loss exposure, compare treatment options, and support defensible GRC decisions in realistic business scenarios.

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Quantitative Risk Methods: Calibrated Estimation & Decision Support

Apply practical quantitative cyber risk methods, including FAIR-style analysis, calibrated estimation, loss event modeling, and decision support in realistic GRC scenarios.

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FAIR Foundations in Practice

Build practical FAIR analysis skills through realistic GRC scenarios involving loss event scoping, factor estimation, control-informed risk reduction, third-party exposure, incident-informed recalibration, and executive reporting.

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FAIR Applied Risk Quantification

Build practical skills applying the FAIR model to quantify cyber and operational risk through realistic GRC scenarios involving intake, analysis, monitoring, incident reassessment, treatment selection, and executive reporting.

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Control Deficiency Rating & Materiality Governance

Develop advanced judgment for rating control deficiencies, determining materiality, governing aggregation decisions, and escalating nuanced risk scenarios across financial reporting, operational compliance, technology control environments, and executive oversight structures.

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Case studies for this job path

Realistic governance narratives with guided comprehension questions.

Case Study

Operating Risk Appetite Limits During a Rapid Expansion

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Operating an Enterprise Risk Appetite, Tolerance, and Limit Framework

3 guided questions

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Refresh the RCSA Program for Third-Party Claims Operations

3 guided questions

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Launching the Semiannual RCSA Cycle at Harborview Credit Union

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Recurring Vendor Due Diligence Failures and Weak Root Cause Governance

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Overdue Corrective Actions After a Vendor Risk Review

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Corrective Action Governance After a Recurring Access Review Failure

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Rationalize Overlapping Operational Controls in a Shared Services Environment

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Govern a Time-Bound Security Exception for Vendor Access

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Policy Exception and Risk Acceptance Governance for Legacy Vendor Access

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Risk Manager / Operational Risk Analyst Job Path

Complete every lab, case study, and the scenario path above to unlock the Risk Manager / Operational Risk Analyst Job Path certificate.

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Scenario prompts in this job path

  1. Scenario 1Draft an enterprise risk statement and identify the top three business drivers.
  2. Scenario 2Build a control map linking key risks to preventive and detective controls.
  3. Scenario 3Define a measurable loss event scenario using threat, asset, and effect.
  4. Scenario 4Estimate frequency and probable loss magnitude ranges with assumptions.
  5. Scenario 5Compare treatment options using expected risk reduction and cost.
  6. Scenario 6Classify findings by severity, systemic impact, and regulatory sensitivity.
  7. Scenario 7Define remediation plans with milestones, dependencies, and acceptance criteria.
  8. Scenario 8Assess overdue issues and determine escalation based on residual risk.
  9. Scenario 9Design verification testing to confirm sustainable closure of issues.
  10. Scenario 10Create portfolio reporting on remediation velocity and repeat issue drivers.

ISO 27001 / Security Compliance Manager Job Path

For security compliance managers leading ISMS implementation, certification readiness, and multi-framework control alignment.

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ISO 27001: ISMS Foundations & Certification Readiness

A scenario-driven learning path covering core ISO 27001 concepts, implementation steps, risk treatment, documentation, internal audit, and continual improvement in practical GRC contexts.

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ISO 27001: Control Implementation & Operations

A practical, scenario-driven path focused on implementing, operating, and evidencing ISO 27001 controls in real-world GRC environments.

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ISO 27001: Scope, Controls & Continual Improvement

A practical, scenario-driven path for learning how to apply ISO 27001 concepts in real GRC situations, from scope and risk assessment to controls, incidents, audits, and continual improvement.

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ISO 27001: Risk Assessment & Corrective Actions

A practical, scenario-driven path for learning how to apply ISO 27001 concepts in real GRC situations, from scoping and risk assessment to controls, incidents, audits, and continual improvement.

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ISO 27001: Access Management & Supplier Assurance

A practical, scenario-driven learning path covering core ISO 27001 concepts through a Path 5-focused GRC lens, including scope, risk assessment, controls, incident response, supplier management, and audit readiness.

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ISO 27001: Clause 6 Planning & Objectives

A practical, scenario-driven path focused on ISO 27001 Clause 6 planning activities, including risks and opportunities, information security objectives, and planning changes within an ISMS.

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Path 7

NIST CSF 2.0 Core Functions in Practice

Apply the NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 through practical GRC scenarios across Govern, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover activities.

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NIST CSF 2.0 Govern Function

A practical, scenario-driven path focused on the Govern function in NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0, helping learners apply governance, policy, risk oversight, roles, and supply chain expectations in realistic GRC situations.

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NIST CSF 2.0: Governance & Incident Response

A scenario-driven learning path focused on applying NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 concepts to practical governance, risk, and compliance situations. Learners analyze policies, asset inventories, third-party risks, incident workflows, and improvement planning through hands-on GRC tasks.

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NIST CSF 2.0: Risk Assessment & Executive Communication

A hands-on learning path focused on practical governance, risk, and compliance scenarios using NIST CSF 2.0. Learners work through realistic situations involving governance, asset understanding, risk assessment, control improvement, and communication with leadership.

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SOC 2: Scoping, Controls & Vendor Risk

A scenario-driven learning path focused on practical SOC 2 work across scoping, controls, evidence, vendor risk, and incident response in a growing SaaS company.

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SOC 2: Communication and Information

A practical path focused on SOC 2 Common Criteria 2, covering internal communication, external communication, policy awareness, incident reporting, and evidence gathering through scenario-driven GRC exercises.

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SOC 2: Risk Assessment & Monitoring

A practical, scenario-driven path focused on SOC 2 common criteria Path 3, teaching learners how to identify risks, evaluate control changes, assess vendor exposure, and maintain effective risk monitoring in a GRC program.

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Path 14

Framework Mastery

Build fluency across major security and compliance frameworks, then map controls across standards for unified assurance.

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Path 15

Control Assurance Practice

Intermediate path focused on control evidence, audit readiness, and practical assurance execution across day-to-day programs.

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NIST RMF Foundations Through Practical GRC Scenarios

Build hands-on NIST Risk Management Framework skills through realistic scenarios covering system categorization, control selection, implementation planning, assessment readiness, authorization support, and continuous monitoring across public sector and regulated environments.

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CIS Controls Foundations in Practice

Practice applying CIS Controls v8 through realistic GRC scenarios covering asset visibility, software governance, data protection, secure configuration, access control, logging, vulnerabilities, and response-oriented compliance workflows.

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Scenario Submissions

Submit scenario responses for AI marking (up to 25 total per day and 1 per scenario per day).

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Case studies for this job path

Realistic governance narratives with guided comprehension questions.

Case Study

Stabilize Baseline Drift in a Regional Lending Platform

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Govern a Firewall Logging Exception with Compensating Controls

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Govern a Time-Bound Security Exception for Vendor Access

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Govern a Firewall Logging Exception with a Compensating Control

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Architecture Review Board Escalation for an Unapproved Customer Analytics Integration

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ARB Governance for a Regional CRM Modernization

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Executive KRI Governance for a Rapidly Expanding SaaS Business

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Internal Control Deficiency Evaluation and CAPA Governance at Northbridge Fulfillment

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Rationalize a Global Control Library After a Merger

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Rationalize Overlapping Controls Across Three Frameworks

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ISO 27001 / Security Compliance Manager Job Path

Complete every lab, case study, and the scenario path above to unlock the ISO 27001 / Security Compliance Manager Job Path certificate.

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Scenario prompts in this job path

  1. Scenario 1Define ISMS scope boundaries, exclusions, and ownership for a realistic organization.
  2. Scenario 2Draft a risk assessment approach and treatment decision model aligned to business context.
  3. Scenario 3Build a practical control selection rationale and Statement of Applicability structure.
  4. Scenario 4Design evidence requirements for policy operation, control execution, and monitoring.
  5. Scenario 5Prepare an internal audit and management review agenda with clear outputs.
  6. Scenario 6Design a control testing calendar using risk-weighted prioritization criteria.
  7. Scenario 7Define testing procedures with objective evidence requirements and pass/fail rules.
  8. Scenario 8Evaluate control exceptions and determine compensating control requirements.
  9. Scenario 9Build a policy taxonomy aligned to regulatory obligations and internal risk themes.
  10. Scenario 10Define approval workflows, review cadence, and exception governance requirements.

Operational Resilience Analyst Job Path

For resilience analysts mapping important business services, setting impact tolerances, and running scenario testing programmes.

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Operational Resilience: IBS Identification & Mapping

Build practical skills in identifying, scoping, and mapping Important Business Services through realistic operational resilience scenarios covering customer journeys, supporting resources, dependencies, tolerances, governance, and change handling.

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Operational Resilience: IBS Mapping & Dependency Governance

Build practical skills in identifying important business services, mapping dependencies, defining impact tolerances, validating resilience information, and responding to mapping gaps across real-world operational resilience scenarios.

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Digital Operational Resilience Testing & Scenario Governance

Build practical skills for planning, governing, executing, and improving digital operational resilience testing through realistic scenarios involving test strategy, scenario design, third-party disruption, crisis decision-making, remediation, and board reporting.

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Business Continuity Impact Analysis & Recovery Strategy

Build practical business continuity skills through realistic GRC scenarios involving impact analysis, recovery prioritization, dependency mapping, alternate operating models, crisis decision-making, and recovery strategy design across enterprise functions.

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Business Impact Analysis & Recovery Prioritization

Build practical skills in assessing business impact, defining recovery priorities, and translating disruption scenarios into actionable resilience decisions across operations, technology, vendors, and executive governance.

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Business Impact Analysis Data Governance & Evidence Quality

Build practical beginner-level skills for governing BIA data and evaluating evidence quality across intake, analysis, operations, monitoring, exceptions, and reporting scenarios.

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Cyber Resilience & Continuity

Hands-on advanced training to design, govern, and operate cyber resilience & continuity programs.

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Incident Response Operations

Train for real incident response: triage, containment, communications, and leadership decisions under pressure.

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Path 9

Ransomware Readiness Governance

Build practical ransomware readiness governance skills through realistic GRC scenarios covering asset visibility, backup governance, third-party oversight, decision-making during incidents, and post-event remediation reporting.

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Crisis Management Team Governance & Executive Decision-Making

Build practical skills for structuring crisis governance, assigning executive decision rights, running cross-functional coordination, handling escalation, and documenting decisions across cyber, operational, regulatory, third-party, and public-facing crises.

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Operational Resilience Impact Tolerance Calibration & Breach Escalation Governance

Calibrate impact tolerances with quantitative rigor and govern breach escalation across severe but plausible scenarios involving payments, customer access, market activity, third parties, cyber disruption, data integrity loss, and executive decision making.

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Operational Resilience Self-Assessment & Regulatory Attestation Governance

Develop advanced judgment for drafting, challenging, and governing operational resilience self-assessments and regulatory attestations across impact tolerance setting, important business service mapping, scenario testing, third-party dependency management, incident-driven reassessment, and executive certification under regulatory scrutiny.

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Scenario Submissions

Submit scenario responses for AI marking (up to 25 total per day and 1 per scenario per day).

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Case studies for this job path

Realistic governance narratives with guided comprehension questions.

Case Study

Govern Impact Tolerances for a Retail Broker's Trade Confirmation Service

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Payment Outage Scenario Testing and Impact Tolerance Breach Governance

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Critical Process Mapping for a Regional Pharmacy Distributor

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Executive Escalation During a Product Safety Recall

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Classify and Escalate a Payment Platform Outage Under DORA

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Classify and Escalate an ICT Disruption at a Cross-Border Investment Platform

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Classifying a Significant Cyber Event Under NIS2 Governance

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Cross-border Outage at an MSP: NIS2 Operational Readiness and Reporting

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Operational Resilience Analyst Job Path

Complete every lab, case study, and the scenario path above to unlock the Operational Resilience Analyst Job Path certificate.

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Scenario prompts in this job path

  1. Scenario 1Define critical business services and map maximum tolerable downtime for each.
  2. Scenario 2Document dependency chains across people, process, technology, and third parties.
  3. Scenario 3Design crisis command roles and decision thresholds for service disruption events.
  4. Scenario 4Run a tabletop exercise scenario and capture response timeline strengths and gaps.
  5. Scenario 5Build a continuity improvement backlog with ownership, due dates, and validation tests.
  6. Scenario 6Classify a security event and determine escalation based on impact and confidence.
  7. Scenario 7Draft an incident timeline capturing detection, containment, eradication, and recovery.
  8. Scenario 8Define communications for legal, executive, customer, and regulator stakeholders.
  9. Scenario 9Classify an ICT provider's criticality and document rationale against DORA expectations.
  10. Scenario 10Evaluate concentration risk across key ICT providers and propose mitigation options.

Executive & Board Reporting Job Path

For governance leads and CISOs preparing board-level cyber risk reporting, KRI dashboards, and executive oversight materials.

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Executive Cyber Risk Reporting

Master the craft of translating cyber risk data into board-level narratives — covering dashboard design, governance actions, remediation storytelling, and cross-functional KRI operating models.

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Board Cyber Oversight & Director Governance

Practice board-level cyber oversight through realistic governance scenarios involving strategy approval, risk appetite, third-party and regulatory scrutiny, incident decision-making, executive challenge, and remediation tracking.

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Governance & Leadership

Develop executive-ready governance skills: policy lifecycle, reporting, operating models, and risk culture enablement.

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Enterprise GRC Program Management

Build practical skills to run an enterprise GRC function through governance design, operating cadences, issue handling, metrics, committee reporting, and cross-functional decision-making.

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Enterprise GRC Program Management II

Build enterprise GRC capabilities through charter design, risk intake, policy exceptions, issue escalation, executive reporting, and cross-functional assurance planning.

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Security Metrics & KRI Design

Build the skills to design, govern, and operationalise security metrics and key risk indicators — from taxonomy and data quality through to threshold calibration and escalation governance.

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Security Awareness & Culture

Hands-on advanced training to design, govern, and operate security awareness & culture programs.

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Path 8

COBIT Governance & Management Foundations

Build practical COBIT skills through realistic governance, risk, control, assurance, and performance management scenarios across planning, operations, monitoring, exceptions, and reporting.

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COSO Internal Control Foundations

Build practical COSO internal control skills through realistic business scenarios involving control design, risk assessment, control activities, information flows, monitoring, exceptions, and remediation across common enterprise processes.

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Scenario Submissions

Submit scenario responses for AI marking (up to 25 total per day and 1 per scenario per day).

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Case studies for this job path

Realistic governance narratives with guided comprehension questions.

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Board Oversight of Cyber Risk After a Cloud Control Failure

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Cyber Insurance Readiness and Renewal Governance for a Manufacturing Group

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Cyber Insurance Readiness and Renewal Governance for a Mid-Market Manufacturer

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Prepare Claim-Ready Governance After a Ransomware Near Miss

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Govern a Materiality Assessment for Enterprise Risk and Disclosure

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Governance Gaps in Sustainability Disclosure Readiness

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Executive KRI Governance for a Rapidly Expanding SaaS Business

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Vendor Bank Detail Change Controls After a Suspected CEO Spoof

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Executive & Board Reporting Job Path

Complete every lab, case study, and the scenario path above to unlock the Executive & Board Reporting Job Path certificate.

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Scenario prompts in this job path

  1. Scenario 1Define board-level risk appetite indicators and threshold breach triggers.
  2. Scenario 2Create a concise risk dashboard balancing trend clarity with decision relevance.
  3. Scenario 3Translate technical control findings into strategic business impact statements.
  4. Scenario 4Draft decision memos for top risk tradeoffs and funding implications.
  5. Scenario 5Build a quarterly board pack with accountability, status, and escalation items.
  6. Scenario 6Create KPI/KRI metrics for executive reporting and board visibility.
  7. Scenario 7Select KRIs linked to top enterprise risks and owner accountability.
  8. Scenario 8Set tolerance bands and escalation triggers with management response actions.
  9. Scenario 9Validate metric quality through back-testing and anomaly review.
  10. Scenario 10Present metric insights that drive concrete risk treatment decisions.

Cloud Governance & Asset Lifecycle Job Path

For cloud governance analysts and asset managers overseeing cloud risk, FinOps controls, and technology asset lifecycle programmes.

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Cloud Security & Architecture

Build practical cloud governance and security architecture skills across IAM, network design, workloads, and resilience.

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Cloud Governance, FinOps & Risk

Hands-on advanced training to design, govern, and operate cloud governance, finops & risk programs.

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Technology Asset Lifecycle Governance

Practice governing technology assets from intake through retirement using realistic GRC scenarios covering acquisition, inventory, ownership, change, monitoring, exceptions, disposal, and reporting.

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Zero Trust Implementation

Hands-on advanced training to design, govern, and operate zero trust implementation programs.

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Path 5

Vulnerability Management Operations

Hands-on advanced training to design, govern, and operate vulnerability management operations programs.

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Path 6

Identity Security Engineering

Design resilient IAM controls across joiner-mover-leaver lifecycle, privileged access, federation, and access reviews.

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Data Security & Privacy Operations

Operationalize data classification, retention, privacy workflows, and control assurance across regulated datasets.

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FedRAMP Authorization and Continuous Compliance

Build practical FedRAMP skills through realistic GRC scenarios covering system categorization, boundary definition, control implementation, assessment readiness, continuous monitoring, and incident and exception handling in cloud service environments supporting U.S. federal customers.

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CIS Controls - Control 4: Secure Configuration of Enterprise Assets and Software

Practice applying CIS Control 4 through realistic GRC scenarios covering baseline creation, deployment standards, exception handling, monitoring, third-party coordination, and remediation reporting for secure configurations across enterprise assets and software.

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Scenario Submissions

Submit scenario responses for AI marking (up to 25 total per day and 1 per scenario per day).

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Case studies for this job path

Realistic governance narratives with guided comprehension questions.

Case Study

Govern Retired Engineering Assets After a Data Center Exit

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Govern KMS Key Rotation and Retirement for Regulated Analytics Workloads

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Quarterly Access Review for a Clinical Research Platform

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Identity and Access Review Governance for JML and Privileged Access Oversight

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Open Source Release Governance and SBOM Assurance for a Telehealth Platform

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Stabilizing SBOM Assurance for an Open Source Release Pipeline

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Govern SBOM Quality for a Critical Vendor Release

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Open Source Software Governance and SBOM Compliance During a Product Release

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Cloud Governance & Asset Lifecycle Job Path

Complete every lab, case study, and the scenario path above to unlock the Cloud Governance & Asset Lifecycle Job Path certificate.

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Scenario prompts in this job path

  1. Scenario 1Identify cloud account governance gaps and define ownership guardrails by business unit.
  2. Scenario 2Assess cost anomalies and map optimization options without weakening control coverage.
  3. Scenario 3Design policy-as-code checks for tagging, encryption, and network exposure controls.
  4. Scenario 4Create a risk register for cloud misconfiguration trends and unresolved exceptions.
  5. Scenario 5Prepare an executive update on cloud spend, risk posture, and remediation progress.
  6. Scenario 6Define joiner-mover-leaver control objectives and required evidence artifacts.
  7. Scenario 7Test privileged access reviews for timeliness, completeness, and revocation quality.
  8. Scenario 8Define risk screening criteria for business and technology change requests.
  9. Scenario 9Assess control impacts from major releases and process redesign initiatives.
  10. Scenario 10Design pre-implementation assurance checks for high-risk changes.

Quantitative Risk & Insider Threat Job Path

For analysts applying quantitative risk methods and building insider threat detection, investigation, and governance programmes.

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Path 1

Quantitative Risk Methods: FAIR Analysis & Loss Estimation

Practice applying quantitative cyber risk methods such as FAIR to estimate loss exposure, compare treatment options, and support defensible GRC decisions in realistic business scenarios.

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Quantitative Risk Methods: Calibrated Estimation & Decision Support

Apply practical quantitative cyber risk methods, including FAIR-style analysis, calibrated estimation, loss event modeling, and decision support in realistic GRC scenarios.

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Insider Threat Program Governance: Charter & Escalation

Build a practical insider threat governance program through chartering, data handling rules, escalation design, and oversight decisions grounded in realistic GRC scenarios.

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Insider Threat Program Governance: Investigations & Assurance

Build a practical insider threat governance program by defining oversight, triage, investigations, and continuous improvement controls for real-world organizational scenarios.

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Risk Management Professional

Master advanced risk assessment methods, treatment planning, monitoring, and executive reporting through practical scenarios.

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Path 6

Security Awareness & Culture

Hands-on advanced training to design, govern, and operate security awareness & culture programs.

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Path 7

Security Operations Engineering

Build practical SOC engineering capability across alerting quality, investigations, automation, and detection tuning.

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Path 8

Security Metrics & KRI Design

Build the skills to design, govern, and operationalise security metrics and key risk indicators — from taxonomy and data quality through to threshold calibration and escalation governance.

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Path 9

FAIR Foundations in Practice

Build practical FAIR analysis skills through realistic GRC scenarios involving loss event scoping, factor estimation, control-informed risk reduction, third-party exposure, incident-informed recalibration, and executive reporting.

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FAIR Applied Risk Quantification

Build practical skills applying the FAIR model to quantify cyber and operational risk through realistic GRC scenarios involving intake, analysis, monitoring, incident reassessment, treatment selection, and executive reporting.

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Scenario Submissions

Submit scenario responses for AI marking (up to 25 total per day and 1 per scenario per day).

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Case studies for this job path

Realistic governance narratives with guided comprehension questions.

Case Study

Vendor Bank Detail Change Controls After a Suspected CEO Spoof

3 guided questions

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Protecting Speak-Up Integrity During a Procurement Investigation

3 guided questions

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Whistleblower Hotline Governance and Investigation Triage at Northstar Biologics

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Scaling an Ethics Hotline: Intake SLAs, Escalations, and Independence

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Repair Governance Gaps in a Global Speak-Up Program

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Triage and Escalation in a Regional Whistleblower Investigation

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Prioritize Intelligence-Led Risk Action After Vendor Credential Abuse

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Executive KRI Governance for a Rapidly Expanding SaaS Business

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Quantitative Risk & Insider Threat Job Path

Complete every lab, case study, and the scenario path above to unlock the Quantitative Risk & Insider Threat Job Path certificate.

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Scenario prompts in this job path

  1. Scenario 1Define a measurable loss event scenario using threat, asset, and effect.
  2. Scenario 2Estimate frequency and probable loss magnitude ranges with assumptions.
  3. Scenario 3Compare treatment options using expected risk reduction and cost.
  4. Scenario 4Document uncertainty drivers and sensitivity to key assumptions.
  5. Scenario 5Present a decision recommendation in business terms for leadership.
  6. Scenario 6Draft insider threat program scope, objective, and governance charter language.
  7. Scenario 7Design intake and triage criteria for suspicious insider activity referrals.
  8. Scenario 8Define privacy guardrails for monitoring and investigations.
  9. Scenario 9Create escalation pathways for legal, HR, and security coordination.
  10. Scenario 10Build monthly oversight metrics and assurance checks.

ESG Governance & Disclosure Job Path

For ESG analysts and sustainability governance leads managing disclosure frameworks, materiality assessments, and environmental compliance reporting.

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ESG Environmental Governance: Foundations & Oversight

Build practical ESG governance skills through scenario-driven exercises covering environmental data controls, supplier oversight, climate risk decisions, reporting governance, incident response, and board-level accountability.

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ESG Environmental Governance: Scope & Performance

Build practical skills for governing environmental ESG obligations through scenarios involving data quality, supplier oversight, climate risk, target tracking, incident response, and board reporting.

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ESG Environmental Governance: Obligations & Assurance

Build practical GRC skills for environmental ESG scenarios by identifying obligations, setting controls, validating evidence, managing incidents, overseeing vendors, and reporting performance without overstating results.

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ESG Environmental Governance: GHG & Emissions Controls

Build practical skills for governing environmental ESG obligations through scenario-driven controls, evidence, escalation, and operational decision-making.

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ESG Environmental Governance: Reporting & Board Accountability

Build practical ESG capability by handling environmental governance scenarios involving emissions data, supplier oversight, control evidence, reporting decisions, incident response, and board-level accountability.

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Path 6

Governance & Leadership

Develop executive-ready governance skills: policy lifecycle, reporting, operating models, and risk culture enablement.

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Path 7

Enterprise GRC Program Management II

Build enterprise GRC capabilities through charter design, risk intake, policy exceptions, issue escalation, executive reporting, and cross-functional assurance planning.

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Path 8

Framework Mastery

Build fluency across major security and compliance frameworks, then map controls across standards for unified assurance.

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AI-marked scenarios

Scenario Submissions

Submit scenario responses for AI marking (up to 25 total per day and 1 per scenario per day).

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Case studies for this job path

Realistic governance narratives with guided comprehension questions.

Case Study

Governance Gaps in Sustainability Disclosure Readiness

3 guided questions

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Case Study

Govern a Materiality Assessment for Enterprise Risk and Disclosure

3 guided questions

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Case Study

Update Regulatory Obligations After a Cross-Border Product Expansion

3 guided questions

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Governing New Regulatory Obligations After a Cross-Border Product Launch

3 guided questions

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Case Study

Govern WCAG Compliance for a Multi-Department Public Services Portal

3 guided questions

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Stabilize Digital Accessibility Compliance Operations After a Public Portal Rollout

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Job path certificate

ESG Governance & Disclosure Job Path

Complete every lab, case study, and the scenario path above to unlock the ESG Governance & Disclosure Job Path certificate.

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Scenario prompts in this job path

  1. Scenario 1Identify material ESG topics and map accountable executive owners for each topic.
  2. Scenario 2Design controls for source data quality, versioning, and disclosure approvals.
  3. Scenario 3Evaluate a climate-risk scenario and define decision triggers for adaptation planning.
  4. Scenario 4Build an issue log for disclosure gaps with remediation owner and due date.
  5. Scenario 5Draft an audit committee briefing summarizing ESG reporting readiness and residual risks.
  6. Scenario 6Triage an incoming regulation and map impacted obligations to business functions.
  7. Scenario 7Define control and policy changes needed to satisfy new regulatory requirements.
  8. Scenario 8Create stakeholder governance for legal interpretation, implementation, and validation.
  9. Scenario 9Deliver an executive readiness update with risks, blockers, and decision requests.
  10. Scenario 10Prepare an annual compliance effectiveness review with improvement priorities.
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