Business Technology Management

Technology Risk Management: A Practical Framework for Modern Organizations

Learn how to identify, assess, prioritize, and control technology risks across systems, vendors, data, and operations.

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Quick Course Facts
17
Self-paced, Online, Lessons
17
Videos and/or Narrated Presentations
5.5
Approximate Hours of Course Media
About the Technology Risk Management: A Practical Framework for Modern Organizations Course

This course provides a practical introduction to Technology Risk Management for modern Business environments. You will learn how to identify, assess, prioritize, and control technology risks across systems, vendors, data, and operations, so you can make stronger decisions and reduce disruption.

Build a Practical Technology Risk Management Framework for Business Resilience

  • Learn how to identify, assess, prioritize, and control technology risks across systems, vendors, data, and operations.
  • Develop a structured approach to Technology Risk Management that fits real Business needs.
  • Build and use a technology risk register to support clearer governance and faster action.
  • Strengthen your ability to communicate risk to executives, boards, and operational teams.

A hands-on course for managing technology risk across the modern enterprise.

This course is designed to help you understand how Technology Risk Management works in practice, not just in theory. Starting with the foundations of risk, control, and impact in a Business context, you will learn how to spot key technology assets, map risk sources, and create a practical risk register that supports better decision-making.

As you progress, you will explore how to assess likelihood, impact, inherent risk, and the effectiveness of existing controls. The course also shows you how to prioritize risks and select appropriate treatment options, while clarifying governance, ownership, and accountability across the organization. These skills are essential for anyone responsible for keeping Business technology environments stable, secure, and aligned with organizational goals.

You will also examine core technology domains that commonly create exposure, including cybersecurity, cloud and infrastructure, application delivery, data protection, privacy, vendor relationships, and business continuity. By connecting these topics to real-world operational risks, the course helps you apply a consistent method across systems, vendors, data, and operations.

Finally, you will learn how to report risk clearly, integrate risk management into change and project work, and measure the maturity of your program over time. After completing this course, you will be able to contribute to a more resilient, better-governed Business and respond to technology risk with confidence and structure.

Course Lessons

Full lesson breakdown

Lessons are organized by topic area and each includes descriptive copy for search visibility and student clarity.

Foundations

2 lessons

Technology risk management is the disciplined process of identifying, assessing, and treating risks that could disrupt technology services, data, operations, or decision-making. In this introductory l…

Lesson 2: Risk, Control, and Impact in Business Context

18 min
This lesson explains how to translate technical issues into business impact, so risk decisions can be made in terms leaders understand. You will learn the difference between a risk event, a control, a…

Risk Discovery

2 lessons

Lesson 3: Identifying Technology Assets and Risk Sources

20 min
This lesson introduces the discovery phase of technology risk management: finding the assets, systems, dependencies, and people that can create or amplify risk. Students learn how to build a practical…

Lesson 4: Building a Practical Technology Risk Register

18 min
This lesson shows how to build a practical technology risk register that teams will actually use. You will define the purpose of the register, identify the core fields to capture, and learn how to rec…

Risk Analysis

2 lessons

Lesson 5: Assessing Likelihood, Impact, and Inherent Risk

20 min
This lesson explains how to assess likelihood , impact , and inherent risk so technology risks can be compared on a consistent basis. Learners will see how to define simple rating scales, avoid common…

Lesson 6: Evaluating Control Design and Operating Effectiveness

20 min
This lesson explains how to judge whether a control is actually capable of reducing technology risk. You will learn the difference between control design and operating effectiveness , how to test both…

Risk Response

2 lessons

Lesson 7: Prioritizing Risks and Choosing Treatment Options

19 min
This lesson explains how to turn a completed risk assessment into a practical response plan. Learners will see how to prioritize technology risks using impact, likelihood, velocity, and control streng…

Lesson 8: Technology Governance and Risk Ownership

18 min
This lesson explains how technology governance creates clarity around who owns technology risk , who makes decisions , and who is accountable when issues arise . It focuses on practical operating stru…

Core Technology Domains

4 lessons

Lesson 9: Cybersecurity Risk Management Essentials

22 min
This lesson introduces the essentials of cybersecurity risk management as a practical discipline inside technology risk management. Learners will see how to frame cyber risk in business terms, identif…

Lesson 10: Cloud, Infrastructure, and Platform Risk

20 min
This lesson examines how technology risk shows up in cloud, infrastructure, and platform environments, where small configuration mistakes or dependency failures can have broad operational impact. You …

Lesson 11: Application and Software Delivery Risk

20 min
This lesson explains how to manage application and software delivery risk across the full lifecycle: building, testing, deploying, operating, and changing software. Students learn the main failure poi…

Lesson 12: Data Protection, Privacy, and Information Risk

22 min
This lesson explains how technology risk managers protect sensitive data and manage privacy obligations in everyday operations. It focuses on practical controls for data classification, access, retent…

Extended Enterprise

2 lessons

Lesson 13: Third-Party and Vendor Technology Risk

20 min
Third-party and vendor technology risk is the set of risks created when an organization relies on outside parties to deliver technology services, software, infrastructure, or support. In this lesson, …

Lesson 14: Business Continuity, Resilience, and Disaster Recovery

21 min
This lesson explains how business continuity, resilience, and disaster recovery work together to keep critical services available when technology or operations fail. In the extended enterprise, contin…

Communication

1 lesson

Lesson 15: Risk Reporting for Executives and Boards

18 min
This lesson shows how to turn technology risk information into clear, decision-ready reporting for executives and boards. You will learn how to tailor risk messages to the audience, summarize complex …

Operationalization

2 lessons

Lesson 16: Integrating Risk Management into Change and Project Work

19 min
This lesson shows how to make technology risk management part of everyday change and project work, rather than a separate review step at the end. You will learn where risk inputs belong in the project…

Lesson 17: Maturing the Program and Measuring Performance

18 min
This lesson focuses on how to turn a technology risk management program from a set of activities into a repeatable operating capability. Learners will see how to define maturity levels, select practic…
About Your Instructor
Professor Nathan Ward

Professor Nathan Ward

Professor Nathan Ward guides this AI-built Virversity course with a clear, practical teaching style.