The RESILIA® Cyber Resilience Foundation course was retired by PeopleCert on 1st February 2025.
The final date to order exam vouchers is 1st August 2025.
The final day to take the exam, including Take2, is February 1 2026.
This RESILIA Foundation course teaches staff at all levels of an organization how to make business decisions that will lead to robust cyber resilience. It also shows learners how to embed cyber security best practices across a business and demonstrates how cyber resilience can support operational effectiveness.
Enrol today and prepare yourself to sit and pass the RESILIA Cyber Resilience Foundation certification exam.
Welcome to RESILIA Foundation
Learning Objectives
This module introduces students to the course’s main features, learning plan, aims and objectives, and structure.
It includes a syllabus, diagram pack, further reading document, glossary, and links to download essential copies of the framework publications. It also addresses some of the most frequently asked questions about RESILIA.
Module 1: Introduction to Cyber Resilience and Risk Management
Learning Objectives
Module 1 introduces cyber resilience and risk management. It covers the benefits of cyber resilience for the organization, how to understand the risks faced by an organization, and how to address those risks.
Module 2: Management Systems
Learning Objectives
Module 2 introduces management systems and describes best practices and common standards. This module also establishes the roles of management, governance and compliance in the organization.
Module 3: Memory Game 1
Learning Objectives
Module 3 features an interactive knowledge check designed to test your memory and consolidate your learning.
Module 4: Cyber Resilience Strategy
Learning Objectives
Module 4 focuses on the first stage of the cyber resilience lifecycle: strategy. It covers the purpose and key features of cyber resilience strategies and how they interact with IT Service Management (ITSM).
Module 5: Cyber Resilience Design
Learning Objectives
Module 5 looks at the design phase of the lifecycle. It covers the purpose and key features of good design.
Module 6: Cyber Resilience Transition
Learning Objectives
Module 6 looks at the transition phase of the lifecycle. This phase prepares the designs established in the previous stage for operation. This module covers the key control objectives of cyber resilience transition.
Module 7: Cyber Resilience Operations
Learning Objectives
In this module, we look at the operation phase of the cyber resilience lifecycle. We cover the purpose and key objectives of cyber resilience operations and how they interact with IT service management.
Module 8: Cyber Resilience Continual Improvement
Learning Objectives
Module 8 focuses on the final stage of the lifecycle, continual improvement. This section looks at the purpose and key objectives of continual improvement, including the seven-step improvement process and the ITIL CSI approach. We also look at the segregation of duties and how it benefits the organization.
Module 9: Memory Game 2
Learning Objectives
Module 9 consists of a second interactive knowledge check designed to test your memory and consolidate your learning.
Module 10: Course Review and Wrap-up
Learning Objectives
This is the final module of the RESILIA Foundation course. The course concludes with a summary video and signposts to further reading.
Practice Exams
Learning Objectives
Here, you’ll find two sample papers (with rationales) to help you prepare for the RESILIA Foundation exam.
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RESILIA® Cyber Resilience Foundation exam:
- This is a multiple choice exam consisting of 50 questions
- There is a time limit of 1 hour and 40 minutes to complete the exam
- The exam is closed book, with only the provided materials being permitted for use
- The pass mark for the exam is 65%: you must get 33 out of 50 questions correct
What is RESILIA Foundation?
RESILIA Foundation is an introductory qualification that covers basic knowledge of how to handle cyber risk. The Foundation certification can be obtained by passing the official exam. It leads on to more advanced qualifications such as RESILIA Practitioner.
Who is RESILIA aimed at?
Studying RESILIA can be of use to staff across multiple departments and at all levels of seniority. Knowledge of the benefits associated with cyber resilience is also useful to everyone, from IT service staff to boardroom executives.
In addition, all core business departments – HR, Finance, Procurement, Operations, and Marketing – can benefit from having cyber resilience knowledge within their team. Having preventative measures and best practices ready to go will always be the best way to deal with potential threats.
How does RESILIA align itself with ITIL?
RESILIA is designed to complement ITIL and was developed using a lifecycle structure adapted from ITIL V3. While it functions as an independent framework, it is keenly aware of ITSM concerns and has many similarities with ITIL’s process and practice-based approach.
Both frameworks are certified by AXELOS, so organizations that already use ITIL will find it easy to integrate RESLIA into existing processes.
What is Cyber Resilience?
Cyber Resilience measures an organization’s capacity to prepare for, resist, respond to and recover from cyberattacks. A cyber resilient organization can also adapt to unknown crises and thrive in adverse conditions.
How does Cyber Resilience differ from Information Security/Assurance?
Traditionally, cybersecurity has focused on an organization’s ability to detect and prevent cyber-attacks using regularly tested technical controls and security standards.
Due to the quickly evolving nature of cyber-attacks, it is no longer feasible to prevent all attacks, regardless of how up-to-date a company’s IT controls are. Cyber resilience accepts that attacks will happen and focuses instead on how a business responds and recovers.
Why should I study RESILIA over CISSP, CISM or CISA?
CISM, CISA and CISSP are technical certifications explicitly aimed at security professionals.
RESILIA takes a broader view, aiming to teach staff in a variety of roles and positions how to handle cyber-attacks and implement cyber resilience into the organization as a whole.
What is AXELOS?
AXELOS is a joint venture company that manages several of the world’s most popular corporate frameworks. These include MoR, PRINCE2, AgileSHIFT, MSP and RESILIA.
