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IT Risk and AI Governance, a free technology course on Tomo

IT Risk and AI Governance

Learn to identify cyber threats, evaluate third-party vendor security, and safely oversee enterprise AI deployments. Built for enterprise professionals stepping into IT risk, TPRM, and technology compliance roles.

Like Duolingo, but for IT Risk and AI Governance. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.

A short one: 12 levels across 2 sections, about 24 minutes end to end, roughly 5 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Evaluating the Enterprise Perimeter and Governing Enterprise AI Systems. It starts from scratch.

12 bite-size levelsAbout 5 minutes each

Free forever · No credit card · iPhone & Android

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12
Levels
2
Sections
5
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What you'll learn

Key ideas in IT Risk and AI Governance

  • Confidentiality is breached when unauthorized eyes view private training data or model weights
  • Integrity is violated when data or models are silently tampered with to produce incorrect results
  • Availability is lost when legitimate users or services are blocked from querying the AI system
  • A vulnerability is an existing flaw or weakness in the system (like an unpatched library)
  • A threat is the external actor or event capable of exploiting that flaw (like a hacker)
  • A control is the safeguard or tool put in place to reduce that exposure (like a scanner or patch policy)
  • Preventive controls stop an unauthorized action or intrusion before it happens
  • Detective controls identify and flag unauthorized activity while it is occurring or immediately after
  • Corrective controls repair damage and restore operations after an incident has occurred
  • Defense-in-depth requires layered controls so that if one fails (e.g., a stolen password), another still blocks access (e.g., encryption or MFA)
  • Single barriers create single points of failure, leaving data exposed if bypassed
  • Layers should cover identity, access permissions, and data protection simultaneously
  • Zero risk is practically impossible without shutting down operations and blocking all technological adoption
  • Security governance defines an acceptable level of risk (risk tolerance) and applies controls to keep residual risk within those boundaries
  • Security exists to safely enable business operations, not to halt all activity until absolute safety is reached
  • Inherent risk measures the raw danger a vendor poses based strictly on what data they touch and what systems they access
Why not just Google it

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Wikipedia

Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.

YouTube

You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.

ChatGPT

One answer, then back to scrolling.

Online courses

Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.

Tomo gives IT Risk and AI Governance the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.

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Keeping AI Safe and Sound

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Course map

How to learn IT Risk and AI Governance, step by step

Go in order. 12 short levels across 2 sections, about 24 minutes in all, five minutes a day.

  1. 1

    Evaluating the Enterprise Perimeter

    • The Security Baseline: CIA and Threat Controls
    • Third-Party Risk: Vendor Audits and OSFI B-10
  2. 2

    Governing Enterprise AI Systems

    • AI Vulnerabilities, Data Leakage, and Guardrails
    • Operationalizing the NIST AI Risk Management Framework

2 sections · 4 units · 12 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.

Questions

Questions about IT Risk and AI Governance

  1. How do I learn IT Risk and AI Governance?

    Go in order: start with Evaluating the Enterprise Perimeter, then Governing Enterprise AI Systems. On Tomo that's 12 short levels, about 24 minutes in all, played five minutes a day. Start free and play the first level in under a minute.

  2. Is there a Duolingo-style app for IT Risk and AI Governance?

    Yes. Tomo works like Duolingo: short daily lessons, streaks and quick quizzes. IT Risk and AI Governance is one of its free courses, and you can type any other topic to get a course of your own.

  3. Is the IT Risk and AI Governance course free?

    Yes. IT Risk and AI Governance is playable on Tomo's free plan, which doesn't expire. No credit card, no waitlist. Download the app and start your first lesson.

  4. How long does it take to learn IT Risk and AI Governance?

    12 levels across 2 sections, about 24 minutes of play in total. It's built for five minutes a day, so you finish it a little at a time instead of all at once.

  5. Do I need any background to start IT Risk and AI Governance?

    No. It's pitched at a beginner level, so it starts where you are and builds up. If you can tap a phone, you can start.

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