Skills
Information security management
Governance, risk assessment, policy, treatment plan, indicators, audit: information security is steered like an executive function. This skill provides the standards framework and the vocabulary a board and an auditor expect.
Security as an executive function
A board arbitrates risks, not configurations. The skill consists in translating one into the other: start from a business asset, measure its exposure, propose a costed treatment and track it with indicators that speak to executives. Standards frameworks supply the shared grammar of that exchange, and audit supplies its proof. The programme teaches that chain, from the risk register to the dashboard presented in committee.
- Maintain a risk register and rank it by business impact
- Draft an applicable security policy and secure its adoption
- Build a costed treatment plan and track its execution
- Prepare for and support a compliance audit
What you command on completion
You carry an organisation's security policy before its leadership and demonstrate its application to an auditor. The statement below is a commitment: it is what the training makes you able to carry out.
- teaching blocks
- 3
- of taught instruction
- 360 h
- credits in total
- 36
- professional qualifications concerned
- 3
Catalogue rule: one credit is twenty-five hours of work, ten of them taught.
The blocks that build it
The skill is built block after block, in the order of the years. You see here exactly where it is taught, and for how many taught hours.
| Teaching block | Programme | Taught hours | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Governance, risk and compliance | Cybersecurity programme — Bac+5 level | 100 h | Year 2 |
| Security fundamentals | Cybersecurity programme — Bac+5 level | 220 h | Year 1 |
| Data and sovereignty | Digital Transformation Certificate | 40 h | Year 1 |
The roles that call for it
These professional qualifications target a named occupation. Their official framework carries this skill.
| Professional qualification | Target occupation | Level | Taught volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chief Information Security Officer | CISO | 7 · Expert and executive | 700 h |
| Enterprise Architect | IS architect | 7 · Expert and executive | 700 h |
| Compliance Manager | compliance officer | 6 · Manager and professional | 750 h |
Choosing your programme
The right choice depends on the time you have as much as on the level you target. Both appear here.
| Programme | Level | Duration | Fees |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cybersecurity programme — Bac+5 level | Master's degree | 2 years | 7 500 000 GNF per year |
| Digital Transformation Certificate | Professional certification | 6 months | 3 600 000 GNF in total |
Three questions, three answers
Does this skill require a technical background?
It requires understanding systems, which the programme teaches in year one. The steering itself is management work: risk, policy, indicators and audit.
Are international standards covered?
Yes: the governance, risk and compliance block builds on the recognised security management standards and their audit requirements.
What level of responsibility does it lead to?
To level 7 of the framework, that of expert and executive: the information systems security manager qualification is prepared over 700 taught hours.
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