E019: Cybersecurity Strategy

Cybersecurity Strategy approaches security purely from a leadership and roadmapping perspective — evaluating threats, costs, and investment without touching implementation or technical tasks.

What E019 covers

The course approaches an organization's cybersecurity needs from a management perspective. The student will analyze a wide range of threats to cybersecurity such as policies, people, and culture as well as technology.

The student will evaluate the costs and investment while road mapping an organization's cybersecurity plan. This is strictly from a strategic perspective — the learner will not be expected to implement actual solutions or perform technical tasks.

The E019 performance assessment

Expect a performance assessment requiring you to build a cybersecurity roadmap for a given organization, analyzing threats across policy, people, culture, and technology, with cost/investment justification.

Key topics in E019

• Cybersecurity threat analysis (policy, people, culture, technology)
• Cost and investment evaluation
• Cybersecurity roadmapping

Writing tips for E019

Follow the task instructions and rubric line by line

WGU performance assessments for E019 are graded against a fixed rubric — every rubric line has to be visibly addressed, usually with a labeled heading that mirrors the rubric language. Skipping a rubric point because it seems minor is the single most common reason a competent submission comes back "Not Yet Competent" for revision.

Ground strategy recommendations in the specific scenario, not generic best practice

Management and strategy courses like E019 typically hand you a realistic organizational scenario (a company profile, a set of constraints, existing systems). Evaluators are checking whether your recommendation genuinely fits THAT organization's situation — a textbook-generic answer that could apply to any company usually loses rubric points for lacking scenario specificity.

Because WGU is self-paced, don't let "no deadline pressure" become no submission

There's no weekly due date forcing progress, which means procrastination costs more at WGU than at a traditional term-based school — a stalled task can quietly eat weeks of a term. Treat your own target date for each E019 assessment as a real deadline.

Why students seek help with E019

Students with a technical background sometimes drift into implementation detail (specific tools, configurations) when the course explicitly wants strategic-level analysis only — staying at the management/strategy altitude the rubric expects matters here.

How GradeEssays helps with E019

Share your organizational scenario and rubric, and your writer will build a strategic cybersecurity roadmap at the management level the course requires, not implementation detail.

Prerequisites and program context

E019 has no prerequisites.

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