Module 8: Cyber risk assessment portfolio

Theme

Cyber risk assessment portfolio

Essential Question

What evidence supports risk decisions?

Module Components

• Book prose: conceptual framing, domain scenario, methods, and failure modes

• Assignment: evidence-backed production of a specific artifact

• Slides: presentation sequence for seminar or lecture delivery

• Narration: spoken version of the slide flow

• Rubric: criteria for evaluating the module artifact

• Notebook: executable lab aligned with the module theme using synthetic asset risk records with exposure, vulnerability severity, control strength, threat activity, and business impact

Module Artifact

cyber risk assessment package with scoring rationale, treatment plan, and executive dashboard focused on cyber risk assessment portfolio: Deliver a final risk assessment package.

Professional Setting

Students work as if advising a cyber risk committee prioritizing mitigation across assets with different exposure and business value. Their work must be intelligible to CISO, risk officer, system owner, auditor, and executive sponsor.

Use This Module in Order

1. Read the learning chapter.

2. Review the slide deck with the matching narration.

3. In Populi, open the private student-repository link for this course and enter modules/module-8.

4. Clone the repository once or open its Codespace/Colab copy; run lab.ipynb and complete exercise.ipynb there.

5. Self-check with the rubric, commit and push the work, then submit exactly what Populi requests.