Turn Security Architecture Skills Into a Credential Decision-Makers Actually Trust

SABSA Foundation Training

Take your cybersecurity career from uncertain to confident with a program built around real enterprise scenarios, real security frameworks, and real boardroom risk decisions.

  • UK Licensed
  • Global Standards
  • Expert Instructor
  • 5 Day Training
  • Overview

Course Overview

Reading a security policy someone else wrote doesn’t make you a security architect. Neither does knowing your way around a few compliance checklists and risk registers. What actually builds competence is taking a messy, poorly defined business risk problem, mapping it through a structured framework, and presenting a security design that someone with budget authority is willing to act on. That’s what this course is built around.

This five-day SABSA certification training covers the full range of skills tied to security architecture training from the SABSA framework and Security Architecture Design through to Enterprise Information Security Architecture and Security Governance Framework design. It doesn’t stop at theory. Every session connects to how organizations actually use the Sherwood Applied Business Security Architecture to make risk-informed decisions, with hands-on exercises running through real enterprise scenarios and governance challenges rather than slide after slide of definitions.

SABSA Security Architecture here means working with the framework every day of the program. You won’t spend most of the week on concepts and squeeze the practical work into a final afternoon. Whether you’re new to formal security architecture or want recognized credentials for architecture work you’ve been doing informally, this program covers both the method and the credential.

It sits within the Global Industries Intelligence portfolio alongside other professional training courses and tech certifications, including business intelligence certification, and a broader set of training programs covering technical, creative, and strategic disciplines. Visit our training portfolio to see the full range, or contact us to discuss what fits your team.

  • Goals

Course Objectives

By the end of this program, participants will be able to:

  • Build a working Enterprise Security Architecture Framework and apply the SABSA framework across all six SABSA layers
  • Apply security architecture training methods across the platforms and governance models commonly used for enterprise risk and compliance
  • Work through Security Architecture Design exercises that turn business risk appetite into recommendations that security leadership can act on
  • Develop the Information Security Architecture skills expected on a SABSA foundation course
  • Support strategic security decisions for executives through governance design, policy frameworks, and clear presentation of architecture findings
  • Sit the SABSA foundation exam prepared against the current F1 and F2 certification blueprint requirements
  • Key Points

Who Should Attend?

This program is ideal for:

  • Security Architects
  • Information Security Managers
  • Enterprise Architects
  • IT Governance and Risk Professionals
  • Penetration Testers Moving Into Advisory Roles
  • Key Benefits

Key Benefits of the Course

  • Build real hands-on ability with the Cybersecurity Architecture Framework and Enterprise Information Security Architecture methods used across regulated industries
  • Gain the confidence to handle security architect certification tasks from business context through to a polished, presentable architecture deliverable
  • Strengthen Security Governance Framework practices, risk traceability, policy alignment, and architecture documentation standards
  • Understand how the Enterprise Security Architecture Framework connects into a wider SABSA Security Architecture strategy
  • Earn a SABSA security architect certification recognized across financial services, government, healthcare, and critical infrastructure roles
  • Outline

Course Outline

Day 1: Foundations of SABSA Security Architecture

  • Understand how security risk moves through an organization and where architecture and governance fit into the bigger picture
  • Break down the Sherwood Applied Business Security Architecture into components that make sense for different enterprise sizes and industries
  • Map the SABSA foundation exam objectives to the practical tasks covered across the week

Day 2: SABSA Layers, Security Architecture Design, and Traceability

  • Work through security architecture training using the SABSA layers, connecting business attributes, risk, policy, and technical controls
  • Compare Security Architecture Design approaches and governance structures, including what works for the SABSA Foundation F1 F2 training and certification assessment
  • Plan architecture structures suited to different organizational needs, based on real enterprise examples

Day 3: Enterprise Information Security Architecture in Practice

  • Run hands-on Enterprise Information Security Architecture exercises covering identity, data, application, and infrastructure domains
  • Apply security architect certification techniques, gap analysis, risk-based prioritization, and architecture documentation across environments with known complexity
  • Identify weaknesses in existing enterprise security postures and propose redesigns that hold up against real business questions

Day 4: Security Governance Framework and Strategic Decision Making

  • Apply Security Governance Framework methods, policy alignment, compliance mapping, and risk management across the enterprise
  • Work through Cybersecurity Architecture Framework case studies and strategic security planning exercises
  • Practice presenting security architecture findings clearly to senior stakeholders under realistic time pressure

Day 5: Capstone Project, Exam Prep, and Certification Review

  • Complete a SABSA Foundation course capstone project, from business context through to a structured architecture deliverable
  • Hit the highest-weighted SABSA foundation exam blueprint sections through structured F1 and F2 practice
  • Walk away with a clear study plan and a realistic sense of certification readiness
  • Terms

Training Methodology

This Sabsa Foundation training combines:

  • Hands-on application of the SABSA framework to real enterprise architecture problems across all five days of the program
  • Case studies drawn from genuine Security Governance Framework challenges across regulated industries
  • Exam preparation sessions tied to the SABSA foundation exam F1 and F2 objective weightings
  • Cross-industry peer discussion and group problem-solving throughout the week
  • Direct, honest feedback on architecture outputs, governance logic, and presentation of security findings
  • Achievements

Certification

Participants who complete the program receive a course completion certificate from Global Industries Intelligence Corporate and Industrial Training Center. The program prepares you fully for the official SABSA foundation exam, including the SABSA foundation f1 f2 training and certification online pathway for those who prefer remote testing.

  • Case Study

Case Study Example

A mid-sized financial services firm had security controls scattered across teams, no consistent architecture rationale, and three different departments citing three different risk priorities in the same board meeting. Two of their senior analysts went through a structured SABSA foundation training program one they found through the broader training portfolio at Global Industries Intelligence and came back with a working Enterprise Security Architecture Framework and a Security Governance Framework tied to the organization’s actual risk appetite. They consolidated architecture documentation, rebuilt the core governance model, and established consistent policy traceability across business units. Within months, security reporting time dropped sharply, both analysts passed their SABSA security architect certification, and leadership started using the new framework directly in strategic planning sessions.

  • Why Choose

Why Choose This Program?

If you’ve sat through security architecture training that felt more like a vendor product walkthrough than real architecture work, this is different. The Global Industries Intelligence SABSA Foundation Training is built around genuine enterprise security problems, hands-on framework application, and a certification pathway that prepares you for the job, not just the exam. Whether you’re starting from the basics of the SABSA framework or want formal recognition for the SABSA chartered security architect path you’re already on, this course makes your architecture capability measurable and credible.

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Ready to enroll or set up corporate group training? Contact us now for upcoming dates, in-house delivery options, and packages tailored to your industry. If your team is exploring other tech certifications alongside this one, from business intelligence certification to other technical and strategic training programs, visit our training portfolio for the full range.

  • FAQs

Fequently Asked Questions

What is SABSA certification?

SABSA certification is a globally recognized credential confirming the ability to design, govern, and manage enterprise security architectures using the Sherwood Applied Business Security Architecture framework to support risk-informed decision-making at an organizational level.

Security architecture training, the full SABSA framework across all six SABSA layers, Security Architecture Design, Enterprise Information Security Architecture, Security Governance Framework design, and a Cybersecurity Architecture Framework component built around real enterprise case studies.

Anyone designing or governing organizational security, including security architects, information security managers, enterprise architects, and risk professionals, who need to connect business strategy to technical security decisions. It suits both a SABSA foundation course entry path and experienced professionals seeking the SABSA chartered security architect designation.

Yes. Global Industries Intelligence delivers this program as open enrollment for individuals and as in-house training for corporate teams. Contact us now to discuss dates and delivery options tailored to your organization.

Most participants sit the F1 and F2 papers within a few weeks of completing the program. You leave day five with a full readiness assessment and a structured study plan to close any remaining gaps before exam day.

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Course Schedule

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10 Feb -- 14 Feb

Switzerland

GBP 4595/Person

2 Jun -- 6 Jun

USA

GBP 4595/Person

25 Aug -- 29 Aug

UAE

GBP 4595/Person

30 Nov -- 04 Dec

Germany

GBP 4595/Person

GBP 3595/Person

10 Feb -- 14 Feb

Switzerland

GBP 3595/Person

2 Jun -- 6 Jun

USA

GBP 3595/Person

25 Aug -- 29 Aug

UAE

GBP 3595/Person

30 Nov -- 04 Dec

Germany

GBP 3595/Person

Duration

5 Days

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