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OCTAVE Approach Instructor Training

Dates

2008* Prices (USD)

2008 Dates
June 10-11, 2008 (CMU/CIC Bldg. Pittsburgh, PA)
December 10-11, 2008 (CMU/CIC Bldg. Pittsburgh, PA)

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Software Engineering Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
Phone: 412 / 268-7388
FAX: 412 / 268-7401
Questions: courseregistration@sei.cmu.edu

To Register: 2008 Click Here

This course may also be offered by arrangement at customer sites. E-mail training-info@cert.org or call +1 412-268-9564 for details.

*Course dates and fees are subject to change.

U.S.
Course Fee:
Industry: $2000
Government: $1800
Academic: $1800

International
Course Fee:
$3000

Please review prerequisites before registering below.

Course Description

 

This two-day course teaches candidate OCTAVE instructors how to deliver the Assessing Information Security Risks Using the OCTAVE Approach course. Through lectures, discussions, and class exercises, attendees will learn foundational concepts of the OCTAVE approach and methods, become familiar with course materials and learning objectives, and learn how to tailor the OCTAVE approach to suit a particular customer or domain.

In addition, learning objectives address

  • advanced principles of risk assessment
  • obtaining sponsorship for adopting OCTAVE in an organization
  • extensibility of OCTAVE to other domains such as physical security and insider threat

The course includes a review of training materials from the "Assessing Information Security Risk Using the OCTAVE Approach" course, an overview of delivering the course content, and OCTAVE evaluation planning and scoping tips. The course also covers alternative OCTAVE delivery options and provides guidelines to help instructors learn how to mentor an OCTAVE assessment.

This course builds on information covered in the Assessing Information Security Risk Using the OCTAVE Approach course. To attend this course, participants must be sponsored by an organization that has an OCTAVE course license agreement in place. For more information about licensing the OCTAVE course, please visit the SEI Partner Web site (http://www.sei.cmu.edu/partners/).

Audience   ·    Prerequisites    ·    Objectives   ·    Logistics

 

AUDIENCE

  • professionals desiring an understanding of the concepts underlying the OCTAVE Approach
  • risk professionals who want to conduct OCTAVE Risk Assessment Training

PREREQUISITES

  • attend the Assessing Information Security Risk Using the OCTAVE Approach course

TOPICS

  • concepts underlying the OCTAVE Approach
  • OCTAVE criteria and OCTAVE-consistent methods
  • review of Assessing Information Security Risk Using the OCTAVE Approach materials
  • teaching OCTAVE
  • OCTAVE evaluation planning and scoping
  • alternative OCTAVE delivery options
  • facilitating or delivering an OCTAVE evaluation

OBJECTIVES
This course will help participants to

  • conduct OCTAVE training
  • facilitate an OCTAVE evaluation
  • tailor OCTAVE to suit a particular customer or domain

Course Materials
Participants will receive a course notebook, the OCTAVE Training Instructor's Guide, and an electronic copy of all OCTAVE training materials.

LOGISTICS

Class Schedule
This two-day course meets at the following times:
Day 1, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Day 2, 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

Hotel and Travel Information
Information about traveling to the SEI offices is available on our
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Questions about this course?
Please see our Frequently Asked Questions Web page for answers to some of the more common inquiries about SEI Education and Training.

If you need more information, contact us via e-mail at training-info@cert.org or telephone at +1 412-268-9564.

 

 

Related Products and Services
 

Courses
Assessing Information Security Risk Using the OCTAVE Approach

Publications
Managing Information Security Risks: The OCTAVE Approach (part of the SEI Series in Software Engineering)

CERT's Resiliency Engineering Research

Course Registration
 

Online Registration is not available for this course. Please click the "Register by Mail/Fax" button below, complete the form, print and fax or mail to the SEI for processing. Once verification of prerequisites has been completed by the SEI, you will receive email confirmation of your registration. If the particular course date is no longer available, you will be notified by the course registration department who will then register you for the next available date or date of your choice.

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