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Governance, Risk & CompliancePaid

The Practical GRC - Beginner to Advanced

In the Practical GRC Program class, you're going to learn Governance, Risk & Compliance the way it's actually practiced, not by memorizing definitions, but by doing the real work, class by class, on realistic organizations. Every single class ends with you having built something real — a risk register, a control assessment, an audit report, a privacy record, a board dashboard. These are the same work-products a working GRC professional produces every week. By the end, you won't just understand GRC, you'll have a portfolio that proves you can do it. If you genuinely complete a class and its project, you can list that work as a real skill because you did the actual job.

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17 modules

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Meet your tutor

Abel Olumide

Tutor

I help professionals find their paths in cybersecurity. I have been enabling security operations, managing technical teams, and building security tools for over 15 years, covering Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America.

What you'll cover

1

Standing Up Your GRC Program & Toolkit

2

Governance: Policies, Standards & the Control Hierarchy

3

Enterprise Risk Management: Building & Running a Risk Register

4

Quantifying Risk: From Heat Maps to FAIR

5

Control Frameworks I: Implementing NIST CSF 2.0

6

Control Frameworks II: Building an ISO 27001 ISMS

7

Control Rationalization: Crosswalks & a Common Controls Framework

8

SOC 2 Readiness & Gap Assessment

9

Control Testing & Evidence: The Auditor's Workpaper

10

Internal Audit: From Audit Plan to Report

11

Third-Party & Vendor Risk Management (TPRM)

12

Privacy Program Management: GDPR & CCPA/CPRA

13

Regulatory Compliance: Mapping DORA, NIS2, HIPAA & PCI DSS 4.0

14

Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery

15

GRC Automation & Continuous Controls Monitoring

16

Metrics, Reporting & the Board-Level GRC Dashboard

17

AI Governance & Emerging Technology Risk

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