Course curriculum

  • 1. Emerging Trend on Technology in Financial Industry

    • 1.1 The Evolution of Technology

    • 1.2 Technology Security Programmes

  • 2. Technology Risk in Financial Industry

    • 2.1 The Trade-off in Technology Risk

    • 2.2 Establishing Cyber Security Defences

  • 3. Critical Systems

    • 3.1 When Critical Systems Fail

    • 3.2 Managing Critical Systems

    • 3.3 Recovery Plans for Critical Systems

    • 3.4 Risks Involved with External Vendors

  • 4. Effective Management of Technology Risk

    • 4.1 Managing Risk as Technology Evolves

    • 4.2 Aligning IT to Business Strategy

    • 4.3 IT Security Awareness Training

    • 4.4 The Technology Risk Management Framework

    • 4.5 Protecting Critical Systems

    • 4.6 Passwords as the First Line of Defence

    • 4.7 Other Best Practices

  • 5. Technology Related Regulations

    • 5.1 The Need for Technology Regulations

    • 5.2 Singapore’s Technology Regulatory Framework

    • 5.3 The Board’s Oversight

    • 5.4 MAS’s Guidelines

    • 5.5 Summary

  • 6. Assessment

    • Instructions

    • Questions