Course Description:
This course provides an overview of how to measure and analyze several aspects of cybersecurity risk. This course includes slides as well as a simple Monte Carlo spreadsheet for measuring cybersecurity risk. If you have not yet purchased or enrolled in this course, please click here.
Course Syllabus
Objective
Learn the pitfalls of using qualitative methods for measuring cybersecurity risk and learn a set of quantitative measurement methods to replace them.
Prerequisites
None
Format
- Live 2 Hour Online Webinar
- 1 Online Review Quiz
Materials Provided
- Monte Carlo Tool and Spreadsheets for Measuring Cybersecurity Risk
- PDF copy of PowerPoint slides
Recommended Next Courses
Calibration, Creating Simulations in Excel Basic and Intermediate, Making Decisions Under Uncertainty, Measurement Methods in Excel Basic and Intermediate
Douglas Hubbard is the inventor of the Applied Information Economics (AIE) method and founder of Hubbard Decision Research (HDR). He is the author of How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business, The Failure of Risk Management: Why It’s Broken and How to Fix It, Pulse: The New Science of Harnessing Internet Buzz to Track Threats and Opportunities and his latest book, How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk (Wiley, 2016). He has sold over 100,000 copies of his books in eight different languages. Two of his books are required reading for the Society of Actuaries exam prep. In addition to his books, Mr. Hubbard has been published in several periodicals including Nature, The IBM Journal of Research and Development, OR/MS Today, Analytics, CIO, Information Week, and Architecture Boston.
Please download the following spreadsheet and slide deck to follow along in the course examples and to answer review questions.