Certified ISO/IEC 27034 Foundation Training — Lesson 2: Applying Application Risk, Security Requirements, Controls, and Target Trust

Learning Objectives

• Interpret the purpose, responsibilities, inputs, and decision points shaping applying application risk, security requirements, controls, and target trust.
• Apply the workflow and produce application risk and control worksheet that another practitioner can review.
• Analyze “requirements do not reflect application threats” and recommend a proportionate, evidence-based response.

Detailed Topics

• application risk
• threat modelling
• security requirements
• control selection
• target trust
• risk treatment
• acceptance criteria
• responsibility mapping
• Governance, competence, communication, documentation, validation, risk, and follow-up considerations

Instructor Demonstration

The instructor demonstrates the applying application risk, security requirements, controls, and target trust workflow, identifies applicable responsibilities, records checkpoints in application risk and control worksheet, and contrasts the accepted state with a condition where requirements do not reflect application threats.

Hands-On Exercise

Complete a controlled implementation, management, audit, assessment, foundation, introduction, awareness, or transition exercise for Applying Application Risk, Security Requirements, Controls, and Target Trust. Establish scope and criteria, collect or create evidence, examine “requirements do not reflect application threats,” reach a supported conclusion, and preserve the result in application risk and control worksheet.

1. Confirm objectives, scope, roles, criteria, stakeholders, and expected outputs.
2. Perform the planned activities while recording assumptions, evidence, and decisions.
3. Test a normal case, an exception, and a follow-up or improvement condition.
4. Document conclusions, owners, due dates, escalation, and verification requirements.

Scenario Analysis

• Identify the requirement or principle with the strongest influence on applying application risk, security requirements, controls, and target trust.
• Compare two defensible responses and explain their governance, risk, and evidence trade-offs.
• Determine how the application risk and control worksheet should be approved, retained, reviewed, and updated.

Troubleshooting Guidance

Separate missing evidence from ineffective practice, and distinguish a documentation issue from a control, process, governance, or competence failure. Use application risk and control worksheet to trace the earliest divergence. Treat “requirements do not reflect application threats” as a hypothesis until the response is validated against the applicable requirement and intended outcome.

Validation Checklist

• The scope, criteria, stakeholders, and intended outcome for applying application risk, security requirements, controls, and target trust are explicit.
• The application risk and control worksheet links statements and decisions to objective, reviewable support.
• Responsibilities, competence, communication, risk, legal duties, and change impact were considered where relevant.
• Findings, corrective actions, monitoring, review triggers, and improvement ownership are clear.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can apply Applying Application Risk, Security Requirements, Controls, and Target Trust, explain the reasoning used, and defend the result through application risk and control worksheet.