ISACA offers new IT risk certification

SCHAUMBURG - ISACA's new IT Risk Fundamentals Certificate helps information technology professionals gain the requisite knowledge to be able to better communicate with other professionals, or to begin their own risk career journey, the organization said.

The online IT Risk Fundamentals Certificate exam can be taken from anywhere, and covers six risk topic areas - introduction to risk, risk governance and management, risk identification, risk assessment and analysis, risk response, and risk monitoring, reporting and communications.

"Risk has wide-ranging impacts across the enterprise, and even those not tasked with managing risk are finding they need an understanding of risk principles that informs important business decisions," says Nader Qaimari, ISACA chief product officer.

The certificate exam costs $175 for ISACA members and $225 for others, and the IT Risk Fundamentals Study Guide costs $75 for both members and nonmembers, the Schaumburg-based organization said.