“"How to Break Into GRC" is a comprehensive and well structured email course for those actively breaking in or just want to explore the GRC industry. It's full of valuable career and business insights that can be applied in many other aspects of life as well!”

“This course was super helpful for getting ready for the fundamentals exam. The instructor was awesome too! I'm really glad they have this series of certifications now, it makes it so much easier to learn about NIST CSF. Big shout out to Steve McMichael for putting this course together. The explanations were clear and easy to follow. Overall, amazing course - short, sweet, and packed with useful info.”

“Thanks to 👉🏼 Gerald Auger, Ph.D. & Steve McMichael, CPA, CCRP, CISSP, CISA for this amazing preparing material to obtain AKYLADE Certified Cyber Resilience Fundamentals.

It does not just give you the confidence to go to the exam, but also strengthen your professionalism, and cyber resilience skills.”

“I’m happy to share that I’ve obtained a new certification: CompTIA Security+ ce Certification from CompTIA!

After completing the exam, I am taking a step further towards my professional goals. I look forward to the coming school year.

I want to thank Steve McMichael for recommending this certification to me. Your content and advice are helping me pave the path towards GRC.”

“Cyber Resilience w/ NIST CSF is a great course to take if you’re looking to break into cybersecurity as a consultant or a GRC practitioner. It takes a village to raise a child, and it takes a diverse team to build a strong cyber security operation. The problem is, a lot of smart people with people, process or technology skills and experience don’t think they have what it takes to get into cybersecurity. As a security consulting practice leader, and a line exec in risk and cybersecurity, I saw first-hand the rich value and team strength that came from having people in the team that came from many walks of life and work. The only really important thing is an inquiring mind!

The course is a great way to get started in cyber security. It takes you through the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, which other courses can do, but provides a top down business-like approach to understanding the requirements of the NIST CSF. This helps both IT professionals and non-IT professionals cross the bridge from their current skills and knowledge to cyber security, particularly cyber security governance, risk management and assessment. It gives you a base to expand from. It will help get you started. Once you have started, you will learn more about the various domains of expertise and experience required in cyber security, and you can be the CEO of your own cyber security career by charting a path to learn more, do more, consider further qualifications. Show initiative. Act your way into a new way of thinking, don’t think you way into a new way of acting.

Act now! And never be afraid of asking questions.”