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Course Overview

Are you struggling to keep up with evolving cyber threats? In today's fast-paced digital world, falling behind in cybersecurity puts your entire organization at risk. You and your team are focused on starting and running a business, so adding cybersecurity threats to your workload can feel overwhelming at times. Where do you begin to be effective in a field like cybersecurity, which may not be your core function or expertise? "Cybersecurity for Startups" is the essential course to help you run a secure and stable business while focusing on growing your sales and profits.  

This course will provide you with practical, hands-on strategies and tactics to protect your business and assets, both physical and digital. It includes specific examples, use cases, and documentation to support entrepreneurs, startups, and small businesses in managing cybersecurity, privacy requirements, and GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance).   

By the end of this course, you will be able to ensure secure operations and integrate cybersecurity as a market differentiator to boost sales and profits. 

What You Will Learn

  • Implement cybersecurity and privacy strategies to significantly enhance your organization's safety and security
  • effectively detecting and responding to modern cyber threats.
  • Ability to understand and enforce important privacy regulations (GDPR
  • CCPA
  • and others) to ensure your organization does not end up on a regulator radar.
  • Design and deploy a Governance
  • Risk and Compliance policy to ensure you and your team can consistently perform the cybersecurity and privacy strategies and tactics.
  • How to perform a risk assessment and develop a security policy.
  • Learn how to make you and your employees’ part of a human firewall
  • lowering the risk of social engineering to compromise your cyber and privacy strategy.
  • Develop a process to manage your third-party (vendor) risks
  • how to evaluate and choose important cyber and privacy software and vendors.
  • Learn how to secure your business and data
  • including physical security risks.
  • Gain an understanding of how to communicate cybersecurity to your customers and how to mature your cybersecurity posture as your startup scales and your team grows.

Program Curriculum

  • Content Overview
  • Introduction Topics
  • Chapter 1 Quiz

  • Assess Your Risk
  • Develop Policies
  • Chapter 2 Quiz

  • Identify Your Risks
  • Threats and Asking for Help
  • Chapter 3 Quiz

  • Protect Your Business
  • Communicate How to Protect
  • Chapter 4 Quiz

  • Detect Your Risks
  • Detect With Vigilance
  • Chapter 5 Quiz

  • Respond to Risks
  • How to Respond
  • Chapter 6 Quiz

  • Recover from Incidents
  • Questions for Recovery
  • Chapter 7 Quiz

  • Conclusion and Q&A
  • Resources
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Instructor

Gregory Rasner

Gregory is a CEO, author, and cybersecurity leader with 30+ years of experience in IT, zero trust, and third-party risk. He has authored two Wiley books, created TPRA’s Third-Party Cyber Risk Assessor program, and launched the Securing SaaS Applications course. His third book, Privileged Access Management, co-authored with Maria Rasner, is due in 2025. A frequent speaker and award winner, Gregory previously led cyber third-party risk at Truist Financial and holds degrees and certifications in IT, cybersecurity, and project management. He also has a fourth book coming out namely "AI and Third-party Risk" in January 2026.

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