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GRC Analyst Path

Career-changers entering Cybersecurity through governance, risk & compliance, no technical background needed.

5 stepsHands-on labsCapstone + portfolioA named role

Save $247 vs. courses separately

By the end, you can

What this path makes you able to do.

  • Build and maintain a risk register and run qualitative risk assessments
  • Map controls across ISO 27001, NIST and SOC 2
  • Write policies and support internal & external audits
A guided journey, not a pile of courses

The 5-step path.

  1. 1

    Cybersecurity Foundations

    The core concepts & landscape

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  2. 2

    GRC Analyst Certification

    Governance, risk & compliance core

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  3. 3

    ISO 27001 Internal Auditor

    Audit against Annex A

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  4. 4

    SOC 2 Readiness

    Gap to audit-ready

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  5. Capstone: full GRC package

    Policies, risk register, control matrix, audit-prep report

Practice, not just reading

Hands-on lab work.

Every step above is backed by real practice in Atlas, our simulated workbench. You do the work an employer would hand you, and you keep the artifacts as portfolio evidence.

Third-Party Risk

Third-Party Risk Assessment

Run a vendor through the full TPRM lifecycle: due diligence, a security questionnaire, a SOC 2 review, risk scoring, and continuous monitoring. Then decide whether to approve, mitigate, or walk away.

ISO 27001 / ISMS

ISO 27001 ISMS Implementation

Stand up a real ISMS end to end: scope and context, leadership, the risk assessment and treatment, the asset inventory, and the Statement of Applicability across all 93 Annex A controls, the way a lead implementer builds it for certification.

Audit & Compliance

SOC 2 Readiness Assessment

Take a company from gap to audit-ready: map controls to the Trust Services Criteria, run the gap analysis, write the findings using the five Cs, and build the remediation plan before the CPA engagement.

GRC Program

GRC Program Foundations

Build a GRC program from scratch: governance and scope, the core policy library, and a cross-framework control matrix that maps each control once to NIST, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and CMMC. Implement once, comply many.

Privacy / Data Protection

Privacy & Data Protection

Stand up a privacy program: build the Records of Processing Activities with the right GDPR lawful bases, run a DPIA on the high-risk profiling, and handle data-subject rights and transfers across GDPR and CCPA.

Healthcare / HIPAA

HIPAA Security & Risk Analysis

Make a healthcare provider HIPAA-defensible: run the foundational ePHI risk analysis, then assess the Security Rule's Administrative, Physical, and Technical safeguards (Required vs. Addressable), the way an OCR audit tests them.

Every path is backed by

Hands-on labs. A final exam & capstone. A real role.

You finish with a portfolio you can show, a cumulative exam, and the skills to land the GRC Analyst role.

Not sure this is the one? Take the free fit and aptitude check first: twelve short questions, instant answer.