Overview
Gain the cutting-edge skills you need to better manage and mitigate cyber risks. Through this course, you will be able to build holistic cyber risk management strategies for your clients, learn best practices for protecting data, understand the regulatory environment of this evolving threat, and more.
Skills You’ll Gain
Effectively collaborate with colleagues to develop and implement a holistic strategy for managing cyber risks and anticipating emerging threats
Identify cyber vulnerabilities so you can help clients predict and prevent cyber losses before they occur as well as mitigate potentially catastrophic outcomes
Protect your clients from a top cyber vulnerability by learning best practices for properly storing and maintaining data to help eliminate the human elements of cyber risk
Better understand the rapidly evolving legal and regulatory landscape of cyber exposures to ensure you and your clients are compliant
Ready-Made Career Skills:
- Cyber Risk Management
- Cyber Security Risk
- Data Management
- Data Privacy Best Practices
- Risk Management
- Strategic Planning
Assignments
Earn a Digital Badge
Once you complete the ACRM 401 exam, you'll earn a digital badge to help you show off your achievement with pride. You can post it on your social media channels or add it to your email signature to show your manager and peers that you’ve gained in-demand skills to help you stay up to date with this evolving risk.
Exam Prep Tools
ACRM 401 comes with proven, comprehensive study materials to help you pass The Institutes Designations' exam with confidence:
- Printable Study Outline: Perfect for taking notes, the printable study outline has key points for each assignment and review questions (and answers!) to help you test your knowledge as you move through the course.
- Practice Quizzes: Quickly see where your knowledge gaps are with online practice quizzes for each assignment and for the full course. Plus, you can take them as many times as you want.
- Simulated Exam: Designed to give you the full experience of your final exam, the simulated exam is a timed exam that you can take only once. It mimics the exam structure and level of questions you’ll find on the actual exam. Students who take their Institutes simulated exam pass their exams at higher rates than students who don’t.
- Discussion Boards: Understand how concepts you're learning apply to real-life, professional experiences by connecting, gaining tips, and sharing best practices with other individuals in your field.
- Flashcards: Test yourself on key terms with printable flashcards to help you fit studying into your busy schedule.
FAQs
- Does this course give me credit toward The Institutes Designations?
- Yes! ACRM 401 gives you credit towards the Associate in Cyber Risk Management (ACRM), CPCU, and Associate in Information Technology (AIT) designations.
- How long does the course take?
- ACRM 401 typically takes students 6-8 weeks to complete.
- How is The Institutes Designations' exam structured?
- Virtual exams are timed. You will have 65 minutes to complete 50 questions.
- What’s included in my course materials?
- Course materials include the online course, printable study outline, practice quizzes, flashcards, discussion boards, and a simulated exam.
- How do testing windows work?
- We offer The Institutes Designations' exams in 4 testing windows throughout the year.* You can complete your exam at any time in the testing window that you registered for. Access your exam from your account when the window opens and complete any time until 11:59 p.m. ET on the final day of the window.
- Quarter 1: January 15 – March 15
- Quarter 2: April 15 – June 15
- Quarter 3: July 15 – September 15
- Quarter 4: October 15 – December 15
- We offer The Institutes Designations' exams in 4 testing windows throughout the year.* You can complete your exam at any time in the testing window that you registered for. Access your exam from your account when the window opens and complete any time until 11:59 p.m. ET on the final day of the window.
*Exam windows that close on a weekend will be extended to the following business day.