GRC Academy Podcast March 10, 2023 S-1 / E-1 00:20:51

NIST Cybersecurity Professional Training Program with Rick Lemieux

Interview with Rick Lemieux about the NIST Cybersecurity Professional training program.

In this episode Jacob speaks with Rick Lemieux of the DVMS Institute about the NIST Cybersecurity Professional training program, how it started, the government and private organizations that have adopted it, and its courses.

The NIST Cybersecurity Professional Program is designed to help organizations create a culture-driven, adaptive, cyber-resilient enterprise capable of creating, protecting, delivering digital business value, and how the NIST CSF can be used to help manage digital business risks and ensure improved governance.

Accredited through APMG International, assured through the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), and listed as qualified cyber training by Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in the USA, the NIST Cybersecurity Professional training program teaches individuals and organizations how to engineer, operationalize and continually improve a NIST CSF Program.

The NIST Cybersecurity Professional program includes 5 courses:

  1. NIST Cybersecurity Professional Digital Business Risk Awareness Certificate
  2. NIST Cybersecurity Professional Foundation Certificate
  3. NIST Cybersecurity Professional 800-53 Practitioner Certificate
  4. NIST Cybersecurity Professional 800-171 Specialist Certificate
  5. NIST Cybersecurity Professional ISO 27001 Specialist Certificate