The Credential that Stands Above the Rest

Today, organizations that fully integrate information technology into their company-wide governance, risk management, and compliance initiatives can leverage IT to support business goals – giving them a distinct advantage over their competition. That’s why you should seek out IT candidates who hold the GRC Group’s IT-GRC certification, and why you should pave the way for your current IT managers to attend advanced GRC training and become Certified in IT governance, risk management, and compliance.

The Certified in IT-GRC credential signifies that the candidate has three years of professional experience and has been certified, though testing, as having the following knowledge:

• The value proposition of IT
• Comprehensive and integrated IT/business alignment
• Planning, execution, and governance of IT
• Flexible and scalable processes
• Enabling technology
• Demand management and alignment
• Execution management
• Performance, risk, and contingency management
• Securing IT systems that store, process, or transmit organizational information
• How to make well-informed risk management decisions to justify IT expenditures
• Authorizing or accrediting IT systems as part of risk management
• How to foster an organizational climate where IT risk is automatically considered
• How information security issues translate to organizational security concerns
• Roadmaps for effective security policy and controls
• How to test IT security, policy, and governance
• IT compliance and standards requirements
• How to apply risk analysis techniques to technical audits
• How information systems audit and assessment can be used to meet compliance issues

The GRC Group also offers the following credentials to those delving deeply into one facet of IT-GRC: Certified in IT Governance (CITG), Certified in IT Risk Management (CITR), and Certified in IT Compliance (CITC).

The GRC Group’s Pro-Level Certifications certifies that a candidate has all of the knowledge associated with his or her specialty, along with 1,200 hours of related work experience over the past three years. Pro-Level Certifications include Certified IT Governance Professional (CITCP), Certified IT Risk Management Professional (CITRP), Certified IT Governance Professional (CITGP), Certified IT Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance Professional (CGRCP-IT), and Certified IT Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance Manager (CGRCM-IT).

Today, many organizations recognize that the CGRC-IT credential is an indicator that the candidate stays abreast of best practices and provides their organization with a roadmap and enabling technologies that add value to IT systems while supporting business goals and objectives.