Title: NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF) Fundamentals

• Modalities: Self-Paced Online: REGISTER

  • Contact us for private, client-sponsored training; a minimum of five students are required.​

• Duration: Approximately 2 days

• Price: $1,495

 

Overview 

Risk management is the foundation of the Risk Management Framework (RMF). It plays a crucial role in identifying, assessing, and mitigating security and privacy risks across an organization’s systems. The RMF ensures that risks are addressed throughout the system development life cycle, enabling organizations to balance operational needs with security requirements. By integrating risk management into each RMF step—from preparation to continuous monitoring—organizations can make informed, risk-based decisions that protect critical assets, reduce vulnerabilities, and increase resilience in the face of evolving threats. Effective risk management helps maintain compliance with regulatory standards and ensures that systems operate within acceptable risk levels, ultimately safeguarding organizational missions and objectives.

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This course delves into the foundational concepts of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Risk Management Framework (RMF), which equips professionals with essential knowledge and practical skills to manage security and privacy risks throughout the system development life cycle, enhancing organizational resilience and ensuring compliance with NIST SP 800-37 Revision 2.

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Course Materials

• This course includes a digital copy of the training material.

• This course includes module quizzes.

• This course includes a 40-question end-of-course exam

• Course completion certificate with 16 CEUs/PDUs.

• Digital badge.

 

Who Should Attend

• Line of Business Leadership

• Non-Technical Managers

• Technical Managers

• Industry Members (e.g., Manufacturing Extension Program, State-Federal Liaisons)

 

Course Agenda

• Module 1: Introduction and NIST RMF Overview
  This module introduces the NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF) and its integration of security and privacy into the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC), providing an overview of the RMF’s seven steps and its benefits for managing risks in organizations.

• Module 2: RMF Core Elements
  Participants learn the importance of risk management across the entire organization, focusing on the roles, responsibilities, and concepts like risk tolerance and risk-based decision-making that guide effective RMF implementation.

• Module 3: Key Preparatory Concepts for the RMF Process
  This module covers the foundational steps necessary to align RMF with the SDLC, including task delegation, streamlining RMF implementation, and developing security and privacy requirements.

• Module 4: The Prepare Step
  The focus is on organizational-level preparation and system-level preparation, such as defining roles, identifying system stakeholders, developing a risk management strategy, conducting a risk assessment, identifying common controls to ensure readiness for RMF implementation, and conducting system-specific risk assessments to ensure that each system is ready for RMF.

• Module 5: The Categorize Step
  Participants will learn how to categorize systems based on the potential impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, including documenting system characteristics and obtaining senior leadership approval.

• Module 6: The Select Step
  This module focuses on selecting and tailoring security and privacy controls based on system categorization, allocating controls to system components, and documenting plans for control implementation and continuous monitoring.

• Module 7: The Implement Step
  Participants learn how to implement selected controls within the system's operational environment, ensuring that the controls are functioning effectively to mitigate identified risks and updating security documentation.

• Module 8: The Assess Step
  This module teaches how to assess the effectiveness of implemented controls, selecting independent assessors, developing an assessment plan, and documenting findings to improve system security.

• Module 9: The Authorize Step
  Participants will understand the process for evaluating and accepting residual risks, with Authorizing Officials making formal decisions to authorize the system for operation based on risk assessments.

• Module 10: The Monitor Step
  This module focuses on continuous monitoring of the system’s security posture, responding to incidents, and making necessary adjustments to ensure ongoing risk management and system protection.

• Module 11: Course Summary
  This module focuses on wrapping up and summarizing the entire RMF course.

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