Course information

Following a documented failure related to encryption and key management weaknesses, organisations must execute CAPAs with urgency and precision. This course walks through intake and triage, the selection of corrective actions that directly remove the weakness, and preventive actions that address systemic contributors.

 

It provides concrete guidance on crypto standard uplift, HSM governance, and key custody and logging, and explains how to structure evidence so that closure decisions remain defensible under inspection. Learners also cover accountability, timeline management, and escalation for delays or recurrence. The course ends with a sustained effectiveness approach using monitoring, periodic review, and independent validation. 

 

Practical examples are used throughout the course to illustrate how organisations typically fail in this area, such as incomplete remediation plans, poorly defined ownership, or evidence that cannot be reproduced during inspections. The course explains how these weaknesses are identified during audits, supervisory reviews, or testing exercises, and how they translate into concrete findings. Learners work through realistic remediation scenarios, including how to prioritise actions based on criticality, how to document decisions in a way that can be reconstructed months later, and how to demonstrate that preventive measures remain effective after organisational or technical changes.

In this course, you should learn to:

• Assess impact and criticality when encryption and key management weaknesses fails.
• Identify common supervisory findings linked to weak CAPAs. 
• Implement remediation steps addressing key custody and logging and control drift.
• Establish accountable ownership and RACI for closure. 
• Use re-testing and monitoring to prevent recurrence.

Learn corrective and preventive actions after governance after ICT control failures, including governance escalation and inspection-ready closure evidence.

• Board members
• Senior management
• CIO and CISO
• ICT Risk
• IT Operations
• Security
• Data Office
• Internal Audit
• Vendor Management

120 minutes