Lion Cipher Lab
Do your first risk assessment (GRC, no coding)
- GRC / Compliance
- Beginner
- ~45 min
- Free · no account required
Why it matters
Most people think a career in cyber means hacking or writing code. It doesn't. Governance, Risk, and Compliance is one of the largest tracks in the field, and its central skill is exactly what you'll practice here: looking at something worth protecting, thinking clearly about what could go wrong, and deciding what to do about it first. Risk assessment is the beating heart of every security program — the NIST frameworks the whole industry runs on are built around it. Learning to do one, even for your own laptop, is a real, resume-shaped skill and a true on-ramp into the profession.
What you'll learn
- risk assessment
- risk register
- likelihood vs. impact
- GRC vocabulary
- NIST frameworks
Steps in this lab
- Cyber is not all hacking — meet GRC
- The seven words that unlock the whole field
- Where this fits: the NIST frameworks the industry runs on
- Pick one asset you actually care about
- List the threats and the weaknesses that let them in
- Rate each risk: likelihood times impact
- Build your risk register
- What you just did — and why it counts