- security policies
- physical, technical and social security controls
- usable security
- security standards and certifications, governance and compliance
- security roles and responsibilities, culture and awareness raising, and professionalism
- recognising security needs across platforms (including Operating Systems, Applications, and Cloud systems)
- threat, vulnerability and risk concepts
- asset valuation and management
- risk analysis methodologies
- threat agents and motivations, adversarial thinking
- common human and technical attacks, insider threat, malicious code
- situational awareness, threat trends and landscape, CERTs
- handling risk and selecting countermeasures/controls to mitigate risk
- understanding impacts and consequences
- third party management
- risk communication
- security economics Auditing, and Continuity planning and management (including backup and disaster recovery)