Security Assurance & Testing Strategy — The Assurance Funnel

A strategic senior-level course that builds the org-wide assurance strategy deciding what gets tested, how often, by whom, and how the results are governed - not how to run any single engagement. Work the assurance funnel - eight stages: Assurance Map, Risk-Based Scope, Testing Portfolio, Independence, Vendor & Scheme Selection, Findings Governance, Evidence & Attestation, and Continuous Assurance - mapping every assurance source onto the three-lines model, scoping by risk, building the annual portfolio, protecting independence, choosing vendors and schemes well, governing findings in one register, reusing evidence, and moving to continuous assurance. Four hands-on activities in every lesson, built from real assurance artifacts, not shell commands.

What you'll learn

• Build and maintain an assurance map placing every testing source on the three-lines model, and close the overlaps and blind spots it reveals.
• Set risk-based assurance tiers and build an annual testing portfolio that sequences methods to real risk within budget.
• Establish independence rules - internal/external boundaries, vendor rotation, conflict-of-interest checks - that satisfy regulator and customer expectations.
• Govern one consolidated findings register with normalized severity, SLAs, ownership, and retest evidence, and build the evidence library and metrics for continuous assurance.

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