Updated in May 2025.

This course now features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. This course equips IT managers with essential skills in cyber risk management, focusing on identifying, analyzing, and managing cybersecurity risks. Learn strategies like mitigation, avoidance, transference, and acceptance to tackle threats and vulnerabilities. Understand threat dynamics, information classification, and security control implementation. Explore vulnerability management techniques, including ethical hacking and penetration testing. Gain insights into quantitative and qualitative risk analysis methods in real-world scenarios. By course end, IT managers will be ready to implement robust strategies to defend against cyber threats and enhance their company's security posture. Learn the foundations of risk management: determine, analyze, mitigate, transfer, avoid, and monitor risks. Manage third-party cyber risks, perform ethical hacking/penetration testing, and calculate quantitative/qualitative risk analyses. Designed for IT or cybersecurity managers, this course requires a basic understanding of cybersecurity and offers comprehensive insights into cyber risk management.