IT Governance, Risk and Cybersecurity Assurance

About This Course

This course brings together IT governance, enterprise risk management, and cybersecurity assurance so participants can see how decisions, risks, and independent review fit together. It is designed for professionals who must align technology with organisational objectives, manage cyber and IT risk in a structured way, and provide credible assurance that controls are designed and operating as intended.

The course covers governance structures and accountability, risk identification and treatment, control frameworks, and assurance techniques used in internal audit, compliance, and cybersecurity reviews. Participants work through practical cases on governance design, risk assessment, control evaluation, and assurance reporting, using approaches aligned with COBIT, ISO 31000, ISO/IEC 27001, and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework.

Course Objectives

Explain how IT governance directs and monitors technology decisions and risk.
Define roles, accountability, and decision rights for IT and cybersecurity.
Identify, assess, and treat IT and cyber risks in line with organisational risk appetite.
Evaluate whether security controls are appropriately designed and operating effectively.
Plan and perform cybersecurity assurance activities, including control testing and evidence review.
Report governance, risk, and assurance findings to management and oversight bodies.
Connect governance, risk, and assurance so they reinforce each other rather than operate as separate programmes.

What You Will Learn

How IT governance sets direction, accountability, and oversight for technology and cyber risk
How to assess IT and cybersecurity risks and record treatment decisions
How major control frameworks relate and where they overlap
How to test whether cybersecurity controls are designed and working
How to gather sufficient evidence and write clear assurance findings
How to report residual risk and assurance results to senior stakeholders
How to connect governance decisions, risk treatment, and assurance follow-up

Skills You Will Gain

IT governance design and accountability mapping
IT and cyber risk assessment and treatment
Control framework mapping (COBIT, ISO/IEC 27001, NIST CSF)
Cybersecurity control evaluation
Assurance planning, testing, and evidence review
Finding development and issue tracking
Executive and board-level risk and assurance reporting
Coordination of governance, risk, and assurance activities

Why Choose Komatek Academy

Practitioner-led instruction from professionals experienced in governance, risk, and assurance work
Integrated cases that show how a governance decision, a risk, a control, and an assurance test fit together
Framework-informed content aligned with widely used standards without reducing the course to exam memorisation
Hands-on workshops on risk assessment, control evaluation, and assurance reporting
Flexible delivery for individuals or cross-functional teams from IT, security, risk, and internal audit
Practical outputs including accountability maps, risk views, test approaches, and reporting outlines participants can adapt

Who Should Attend

IT Risk Managers

Cybersecurity Managers

Information Security Officers

Technology Governance Specialists

Cybersecurity Risk Analysts

Internal Auditors

Third-Party Risk Managers

Security Architects

Business Continuity Managers

Chief Information Security Officers

Course Content

MODULE 01

Foundations of IT Measurement

Why IT measurement fails and how to avoid vanity metrics

Metrics, KPIs, targets, thresholds, and service levels

Leading and lagging indicators

Linking measures to services, processes, and outcomes

Common metric families: availability, reliability, incidents, changes, capacity, cost, and experience

MODULE 02

Designing Metrics That Matter

Defining purpose, audience, formula, data source, and owner for each metric

Setting baselines, targets, and acceptable ranges

Balancing volume, quality, speed, cost, and risk measures

Avoiding conflicting incentives and misleading averages

Workshop: Building a metric catalogue for a sample IT service

MODULE 03

Data for Reporting and Analytics

Typical data sources: service desk, monitoring, change, asset, and financial systems

Data definitions, consistency, and timeliness

Aggregation, filtering, and time windows

Data quality checks and common reporting errors

Preparing a simple data model for recurring reports

MODULE 04

Dashboard Design

Audience-specific views: executive, management, and operational

Layout, hierarchy, and visual focus

Choosing the right chart for the question being asked

Scorecards, trend views, exception reports, and drill-down

Workshop: Designing a service performance dashboard

MODULE 05

Performance Analytics in Practice

Trend analysis, seasonality, and moving baselines

Comparing performance across teams, services, or periods

Diagnosing outliers and recurring failure patterns

Connecting dashboard signals to root-cause questions

Turning analysis into actions, owners, and follow-up measures

Capstone: Present a metric set, dashboard concept, and short performance narrative