Course · NCSAIPM
NSD Certified Security & AI Product Management
Become a Security Product Leader: security, product and AI in one role.
A course by the Cybersecurity & AI Initiative, an ISAC Foundation centre.
- Length
- 6 months · 230 learning hours
- When
- Live online weekend sessions
- Format
- Live online weekends, guided offline study and capstone mentoring
- Certification
- NSD certification; assessed on attendance (30%), cases, assignments and labs (30%) and the capstone (40%)
- Before you start
- NCBIS; graduates with 3+ years of relevant experience, diploma holders with 6 years, or MBA and PG students with 2 years
About the course
An executive programme that develops Security Product Leaders: professionals who combine enterprise security, product management and responsible AI to create customer value, resilient platforms and measurable business outcomes. Most programmes teach one of the three; this one brings them together around the emerging role of the Security Product Leader.
What you become
A Security Product Leader who can turn security, customer and business problems into products, and present them to executives.
Who it is for
- Product and technical product managers
- Security engineers and architects
- SOC and cloud-security professionals
- Customer success and presales professionals
- Founders and consultants
- Leaders, regulators and policy makers
Curriculum
Enterprise security as a platform
Weeks 1–4: security value, Zero Trust, secure-by-design, SOC workflows
Security as an enabler of trust and business-risk thinking; enterprise security platforms and Zero Trust; secure-by-design and privacy-by-design; security UX and sustainability; SOC workflows, incident management and alert fatigue.
Building product thinking
Weeks 5–8: discovery, strategy, roadmaps, storytelling
Customer discovery, personas and journeys; vision, market analysis and business models; prioritisation and roadmaps; ROI, value proposition and executive storytelling.
AI-enabled security products
Weeks 9–12: copilots, responsible AI, design studio, PRDs
Security copilots, AI-assisted SOC, UEBA and automation; adversarial AI, prompt injection, governance and red teaming; metrics, dashboards, wireframes and usability; threat modelling and product requirements documents.
Enterprise product leadership
Weeks 13–16: product studios, economics, go-to-market, executive review
Industry product studios; security economics, governance and influence; pricing, positioning, adoption and launch; the final executive product review.
Guided product incubation (capstone)
A real enterprise security challenge, from problem to executive review
Individually or in small teams, participants take a real enterprise security challenge (such as an AI-assisted SOC, insider risk or cloud security posture) from problem statement and customer discovery to a PRD, prototype, business case and go-to-market plan, presented at the Executive Product Review.
What is included
- Live online weekend sessions and guided study
- Labs, masterclasses and industry product studios
- Capstone mentoring and the Executive Product Review
Enrol
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