Get ready to lead the team or be an independent consultant
Stand on the foundation of what you learned in AKYLADE Certified Cyber Resilience Fundamentals (A/CCRF), to master the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and elevate your career
ABOUT THE EXAM
The AKYLADE Certified Cyber Resilience Practitioner (A/CCRP) certification is designed to test your practical knowledge of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) and how to plan, implement, manage, and optimize the material aspects of the framework for use within your own organization using a management action plan to:
Exam Objectives
- Coordinate with management for organizational buy-in and establishing risk profiles for organizations
- Discover top organizational cybersecurity risks using rigorous prioritization methods
- Create a personalized cybersecurity risk management strategy tailored to an organization's unique requirements
- Conduct maintenance and updates to the organization's cybersecurity risk posture and perform continuous improvement
WHAT SKILLS WILL YOU LEARN?
Implementation Expertise
Gain practical expertise in planning, implementing, managing, and optimizing the NIST Cybersecurity Framework within your organization using a management action plan
Risk Profile Coordination
Learn how to coordinate with key stakeholders and management to gain organization-wide support and establish risk profiles specific to meet organizational requirements
Cybersecurity Risk Prioritization
Master rigorous methods for identifying and prioritizing top cybersecurity risks to ensure that efficient resource allocation occurs within the organization
Personalized Risk Management
Acquire skills to develop a tailored and effective cybersecurity risk management strategy that aligns with an organization’s unique needs
Risk Posture Maintenance
Understand the processes involved in regularly updating and maintaining an organization’s cybersecurity risk posture to adapt to evolving threats and risks
Continuous Improvement
Discover methods to drive continuous improvement in cyber resilience practices, optimize response capabilities, and improve overall security posture
A New Certification Requested by Hiring Managers
Hiring managers in the AKYLADE Advisory Council identified CSF training as a key gap in the certification landscape.
While 22-46 year old certifications like Security+, CISSP, and CISA are valuable, they don't dive deep enough into the CSF to prepare you to add value from day one.
WHAT DOES THE COURSE INCLUDE?
This comprehensive course with everything you need to know to CRUSH the exam includes:
A/CCRP CERTIFICATION DOMAINS
Domain 1: Management Action Plan Fundamentals
Prepare for assessments, comprehend a management action plan process, achieve management buy-in, and understand the relationship between NIST Cybersecurity Framework and a management action plan process
Domain 2: Phase One: Determine Top Cyber Risks
Identify, understand, assess, and present cyber risks using interviews, network diagrams, and custom questionnaires while setting NIST CSF alignment targets
Domain 3: Phase Two: Creating a Management Action Plan
Evaluate and rate risk mitigation, create custom strategies, estimate costs, and develop an implementation roadmap for an organization
Domain 4: Phase Three: Maintenance and Updates
Guide organizational leadership in allocating risk mitigation strategies, updating risk presentations, clarifying proposed measures, and conducting ongoing cybersecurity resilience review
Example Curriculum
- 💡0.0 Become an AKYLADE Certified Cyber Resilience Practitioner (1:11)
- 🔙 0.1 Preface: Where we left off in A/CCRF (1:18)
- 👋 0.2 Welcome to the Course! (13:57)
- 📚 0.3 How to Access Course Resources
- 🧩 0.4 Lesson Components
- 🥊 0.5 What to Expect on Exam Day and How to CRUSH It (4:04)
- 0.6 (Optional): Rethinking Cybersecurity Certifications with Jason Dion | Simply Cyber Hot Takes Toronto (37:14)
- 📚️ 11.1 Introduction & Exam Objectives (8:27)
- 🌟 11.2 The CR-MAP Process - Featuring Dr. Gerald Auger! (10:40)
- ⚠️ 11.3 CR-MAP Process Phase 1 Primer: Discover Your Top Cyber Risks (5:59)
- 📝 11.4 CR-MAP Process Phase 2 Primer: Create Your Action Plan (6:49)
- 🛠️ 11.5 CR-MAP Process Phase 3 Primer: Maintenance and Updates (2:51)
- 🤔 11.6 The Five Questions (2:34)
- 🛡️ 11.7 Fostering Security Culture (9:07)
- ⚖️ 11.8 Attorney-Client Privilege (2:47)
- ✅ 11.9 Conclusion and Touchpoints (2:19)
- 📝 11.10 Quiz
- 📚️ 12.1 Introduction & Exam Objectives (5:02)
- 🧭 12.2 Be a Compass for Risk Decisions (2:34)
- 🌐 12.3 Step 1: Widen Your Scope - Part 1 Featuring Dr. Gerald Auger! (8:21)
- 🌐 12.4 Step 1: Widen Your Scope - Part 2 (4:22)
- 🤝 12.5 Step 2: Get Buy In, "Winning Hearts and Minds" (7:37)
- 👥 12.6 Step 3: Select Interviewees (3:02)
- 📋️ 12.7 Step 4: Generate the Questionnaire (7:06)
- ✔️ 12.8 Step 4 Continued: Scoring Criteria and Question Count (7:21)
- 🛠️ 12.9 Spreadsheet Lab: How to Make a CR-MAP Scorecard That Wins Hearts and Minds (50:35)
- 🎯 12.10 Step 5: Determine Target Scores - Featuring Dr. Gerald Auger! (5:03)
- ✨ 12.11 Step 5: Determine Target Scores - Examples (4:48)
- 📋 12.12 Step 6: Conduct the Interviews (8:17)
- 📑 12.13 Step 7: Compile and Average the Scores (2:23)
- 💬 12.14 Step 8: Communicate Your Top 5 Cyber Risks (6:17)
- 📈 12.15 Part 1: EXCLUSIVE TO SIMPLY CYBER ACADEMY: Analyzing Network Diagrams - Featuring Dr. Gerald Auger! (8:08)
- 📈 12.16 Part 2: EXCLUSIVE TO SIMPLY CYBER ACADEMY: Analyzing Network Diagrams - Featuring Dr. Gerald Auger! (17:49)
- ✅ 12.17 Conclusion and Touchpoints (1:53)
- 📝 12.18 Quiz
- 📚️ 13.1 Introduction & Exam Objectives - Featuring Simply Cyber Jaw Jacking (5:22)
- 📰 13.2: ASUS Responsible Disclosure Case Sudy (3:54)
- 🛡️ 13.3: Responsible Disclosure: 6 More Business Case Studies (5:48)
- 🔑 13.4: Keys to Success: Prioritization, Roles and Responsibilities, Keep It Simple - Featuring Simply Cyber Jaw Jacking (12:36)
- ⭐ 13.5: Key Success Factors Continued: Controlling the Rate of Change (4:46)
- 📈 13.6: Five Steps to Developing an Action Plan (3:29)
- 🚧 13.7: (Step 1) Close the Identified Gaps - Featuring Dr Gerald Auger! (7:40)
- ⚠️ 13.8: Backgrounder on Supply Chain Risk Management | GV.SC-01 (18:36)
- 📦 13.9: GV.SC-05 (and some GV.SC-07): Requirements to Address Cybersecurity Risks in Supply Chains (7:58)
- 🤖 13.10: AI Aigmented Contract Review - Fabric Demo (6:41)
- 🌍 13.11: GV.SC-07 Supply Chain Risks Understood, Recorded, Prioritized, Assessed, Responded to, and Monitored (15:03)
- 🛠️ 13.12: GV.SC: Example Supply Chain Risk Assessment Tools (6:57)
- 🔐 13.13: PR.AA: Identity Management, Authentication, and Access Control - Featuring Dr. Gerald Auger in the Daily Cyber Threat Briefing! (10:28)
- 📢 13.14 🧠 PR.AT Awareness and Training (10:31)
- 📢 13.15 RS.CO: Incident Response Reporting and Communication (9:03)
- 🤔 13.16 (Step 1) Considerations: Cybersecurity Org Size and Design (9:15)
- ☕ 13.17 3TCO: 3-Year Total Cost of Ownership - Featuring Jason Dion in Cyber Coffee Hour! (19:50)
- 💡 13.18-Part 1: (Step 2) Business Value Analysis - Featuring Jason Dion in Cyber Coffee Hour! (9:17)
- 💡 13.18-Part 2: (Step 2) Business Value Analysis (20:13)
- 🗺️ 13.19 (Step 3) Create a Dashboard and Roadmap (4:31)
- 📊 13.20 (Step 4) Internal Marketing Cyber Risk Scorecard Presentation (9:05)
- ⭐ 13.21 Internal Marketing Key Success Factors (5:10)
- 📢 13.22 (Step 5) External Marketing (2:53)
- ✅ 13.23 Conclusion & Touchpoints (1:55)
- 📝 13.24 Quiz
About Your AKYLADE Authorized Instructor, Steve McMichael, CCRP
Authorized AKYLADE instructor Steve McMichael from Simply Cyber Academy is committed to helping you accelerate your cybersecurity career.
Steve is passionate about guiding students from backgrounds as diverse as accounting, into cybersecurity GRC. He successfully made this shift himself and shares his journey in the popular blog, CPA to Cybersecurity. Exam prep courses for the AKYLADE Certified Cyber Resilience Fundamentals (A/CCRF) and AKYLADE Certified Cyber Resilience Practitioner (A/CCRP) are key parts of that journey.
Steve holds advanced degrees in business (BBA, MBA), along with top cybersecurity certifications (CCRP, CISSP, CISA), and is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA). With nearly 20 years of experience in tech, he currently serves as the Director of Governance, Risk, and Compliance at BlackBerry.
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