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Course Overview

In an era where digital transformation drives every industry, securing the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) supply chain has become critical to business resilience. Cybersecurity threats targeting ICT supply chains can lead to severe disruptions, data breaches, or even systemic failures. As cyberattacks become more sophisticated and supply chains more globalized, professionals must understand the unique risks and complexities involved in managing ICT supply chains. This course equips learners with essential knowledge to identify vulnerabilities, apply security controls, and implement long-term risk mitigation strategies across supply chain systems.

This course begins with an introduction to the fundamentals of ICT and explores what makes its supply chain particularly vulnerable. It highlights key dangers and presents six principles for maintaining effective control. The next section covers Supply Chain Risk Management, offering structured processes to identify, assess, and reduce risks. Learners then move into Supply Chain Product Assurance, learning how to ensure component integrity through testing and defect prevention. Lifecycle Threat Assurance is addressed with an emphasis on securing systems throughout their operational lifespan. Finally, the course covers Acceptance, Implementation, and Dev/Ops, providing best practices for sustaining security from procurement to retirement.

By the end of the course, learners will gain essential strategies to secure ICT supply chains, apply assurance techniques, and integrate cybersecurity throughout the product lifecycle.

What You Will Learn

  • Do overall lifecycle assurance planning
  • Develop software assurance risk mitigation strategies
  • Describe a valid process to ensure correctness of applied risk mitigation strategies
  • Establish a baseline level of software assurance as part of the upward integration process
  • Perform a proper design decomposition into modules at a foundation level
  • Itemize a valid set of measures for assurance of development practices
  • Ensure all due diligence actions for process risk management

Program Curriculum

  • Introduction to Information and Communication Technology
  • Supply Chain Dangers
  • Six Principles for Ensuring Control - Part 1
  • Six Principles for Ensuring Control - Part 2
  • $7 Million Cybersecurity Scholarship by EC-Council
  • Chapter 1 Quiz

  • Risk Management
  • The Supply Chain Risk Management Process
  • Chapter 2 Quiz

  • Supply Chain Product Assurance
  • Assurance and Testing Best Practices - Part 1
  • Ensuring Against Product Defects
  • Chapter 3 Quiz

  • Supply Chain Lifecycle Assurance Processes
  • Threat Assurance Best Practices
  • Chapter 4 Quiz

  • ICT Supply Chain Acceptance and Operation
  • Best Practices for Lifecycle Sustainment
  • Lifecycle Dev/Ops - Part 1
  • Lifecycle Dev/Ops - Part 2
  • Chapter 5 Quiz
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Instructor

Dan Shoemaker

Dan Shoemaker has been involved in the field of software assurance since its beginnings in 2005. He was part of the original software assurance initiative at the Department of Homeland Security and Chaired its Workforce Training and Education arm for four years, 2008 to 2012. He was a subject matter expert for both the NICE Workforce Framework and the Cybersecurity Curricular Guidelines projects. He has been a consultant and practitioner in the field for close to forty years and a professor for thirty-five. Finally, he is a Distinguished Visitor of the IEEE. and he has written twelve books and close to two-hundred articles in the field.

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