E019: Cybersecurity Strategy

E019 is a three-unit graduate course in WGU's Master of Science, Information Technology. WGU lists no prerequisites.

The guidebook says the course approaches an organization's cybersecurity needs from a management perspective. Students analyze threats across policies, people and culture as well as technology, evaluate costs and investment, and map out a cybersecurity plan.

WGU states clearly that it is strictly strategic: learners are not expected to implement solutions or perform technical tasks.

That note shapes how to write. Evaluators want prioritized decisions and justified spending, not command lines or configuration steps.

What E019 Covers

Key Concepts Explained

Challenges Beyond Technology

Many breaches begin with people and process. A strong evaluation looks at weak policies, uneven training, shadow IT and a culture that treats security as someone else's job, alongside technical gaps.

Investment Logic

Spending is justified by the risk it reduces. Show roughly what an incident could cost, what the control costs, and why the control is proportionate.

Roadmaps and Culture

A roadmap sequences work: quick wins, then structural changes. The culture element names behaviors to change and how leaders will model and reinforce them.

Typical Assignments and How to Approach Them

Phasing a Roadmap

A roadmap reads best in phases. Early actions are cheap and reduce the biggest risk. Middle phases build capability, such as policy updates and training programs. Later phases mature the program with measurement and review.

A Short Worked Challenge Evaluation

Imagine a regional logistics company with drivers, warehouse staff and an office team. Security policy exists on paper, but few staff have read it, and several share logins on warehouse terminals.

The ranking is the valuable part. It shows the reader why those actions come first and how the investment is proportionate to the risk.

A Study Approach for Each Competency

For the challenges competency, build your evidence list first. Note every fact in the scenario that signals weakness, then sort the facts under policy, people, culture and technology. Rank them by how much harm each could cause and how likely it is.

For the investment competency, treat each option as a small business case: what it costs, which risk it reduces and what happens if the organization does nothing. For the roadmap, turn your ranking into phases and add the culture work that makes each technical or policy change stick.

Where Students Get Stuck

• Too technical. The course says no implementation; spend your words on decisions.
• Unjustified spending. Every recommended investment should be tied to a risk it reduces.
• Culture as an afterthought. The roadmap competency names culture explicitly.
• No prioritization. A long list of equal-weight actions is less useful than a ranked plan.

Study Tips for E019

• Draw a small matrix of threat types (policy, people, culture, technology) and fill it for the scenario.
• Keep one recognized framework in mind to reference when judging best practice.
• Express costs approximately and state your assumptions.
• Read the rubric against your headings at the end.

How We Help with E019

Send the scenario, task instructions and rubric. A writer can prepare a model roadmap, explain how to justify investment, or review your draft for gaps. This is study support; submit your own work under WGU's academic integrity policy.

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