20. Lesson Recap

Together, we went over:

• A high level overview of what governance means to the organization
• Then will work our way through the most important governance functions, starting with strategic thinking
• Followed by championing security

Then we spent the rest of our time talking about how governance interacts with operational security controls in:

• Designing measurement
• Measurement and reporting
• And finally, policy and procedure management

Congratulations on completing the Governance lesson. In this lesson, we discussed how Governance has a wide-ranging ability to influence the organization by thinking strategically and interfacing with business stakeholders during Information Security Steering Committee meetings and championing security throughout the organization through policy and procedure development and training efforts. We also learned about the critical day-to-day responsibilities that governance professionals have in measuring the effectiveness of security controls and working with stakeholders to remediate any deficiencies the controls might have.

As a side note, this course is a foundational course that is meant to help build the knowledge to become job-ready, but you will likely need additional training and/or coursework in order to obtain a job in this field. These foundations will set you up for success going forward and are vital to your success in this field.