IT Security Management – Best Practice

Details

A practical program that blends governance, architecture hardening, monitoring, and incident response. Participants learn how to design their security operating model, stand up the right teams and playbooks, detect and contain active threats, coordinate recovery, and communicate with stakeholders. Labs and templates focus on real scenarios such as active intrusion, ransomware, data exfiltration, and business email compromise.

Target Group

Target Group

• Information systems and IT security practitioners
• System, network, and cloud administrators
• SOC analysts and incident responders
• IT managers, service owners, and project leads
• Risk, compliance, legal/privacy, and audit partners supporting security
  

Goals

• Define a security management operating model aligned to business risk and compliance
• Design team structures, roles, and RACI for prevention, detection, response, and recovery
• Build playbooks for identification, containment, eradication, recovery, and post-incident learning
• Establish monitoring with clear use cases, thresholds, and escalation paths
• Coordinate crisis communications, legal/privacy steps, and stakeholder updates
• Measure performance with meaningful KPIs and drive continuous improvement
  

Target Competencies

Target Competencies

• Security governance, risk assessment, and operating-model design
• Incident response leadership, team structuring, and RACI application
• Detection engineering, SOC operations, and threat hunting
• Digital forensics fundamentals and evidence stewardship
• Crisis communication, legal/privacy coordination, and stakeholder management
• Recovery orchestration, resilience planning, and continuous improvement
  

Outlines

Security Leadership, Governance & Risk

• Policy framework and control baselines mapped to recognized standards
• Risk assessment and asset classification tied to business impact
• Security operating model, charters, and decision rights for leaders and teams
• Third-party and supply-chain risk management, contracts, and assurance
• Metrics and reporting cadence for executives and audit committees
  
  

Building the Incident Response Organization

• Team design: incident commander, SOC tiers, incident handlers, threat intel, forensics, IT ops/network, application owners, legal/privacy, communications, business continuity
• Roles and responsibilities using RACI; on-call structure and escalation ladders
• War-room rhythm, out-of-band communications, and decision logs
• Evidence handling and chain of custody for defensible investigations
• Readiness drills: tabletops, playbook walkthroughs, and red/purple-team exercises