The target groups for CAS, the Certificate of Advanced Studies continuing education courses are often somewhat more narrowly defined in the area of risk management and, depending on the focus of the course, are aimed at brokers, financial planners and broker employees (CAS Insurance Broking), but there are also a large number of courses here, which are aimed at those responsible in a wide range of management departments (project, quality, safety, IT, risk, environment), senior process and development engineers, risk analysis experts and managers who are looking for practical continuing, further training, for example with the CAS Risk Analysis and Risk Assessment. However, a prerequisite for every CAS, DAS or MAS in risk management is that participants have a university degree or comparable professional qualification and professional experience. The respective schools will inform you about the exact admission requirements for the individual continuing education, further training courses.

The continuing education course on Management of Risk at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland (CAS Information Security and Risk Management) consists of five modules and focuses on the following topics: BSI and CISSP, business continuity strategy, BSI basic structure of the security framework and audit process, disaster recovery concepts, crisis management, security architecture, evaluation of security standards, security models, identity & access management, service-oriented architecture, application security, software development methods, infrastructure, perimeter security, cryptography, attack methods, mobile security, law and information security and security awareness.