DVMS Institute Announces Version 4 (V4) of its NIST Cybersecurity Framework Digital Value Management Cyber Resilience Certification Training Program
Rick Lemieux – Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of the DVMS Institute
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
In addition to teaching organizations how to tailor NIST CSF 2.0 to their enterprise and supply chain, V4 also equips organizations with the skills to design and implement a Digital Value Management System® (DVMS) capable of integrating fragmented frameworks and systems, such as NIST CSF, GRC, ITSM, DevOps, and AI, into a unified, living overlay system that:
- Enables Adaptive Governance through risk-informed decision-making
- Sustains Operational Resilience through a proactive and adaptable culture
- Measures Performance Assurance with verifiable, evidence-based outcomes
- Ensures Transparent Accountability by unifying intent, execution, and evidence
Murrells Inlet, South Carolina — January 24, 2026 — The DVMS Institute LLC today announced the release of version 4 (V4) of its NIST Cybersecurity Framework Digital Value Management cyber resilience certification training program.
This release represents a major evolution in how organizations educate leadership, practitioners, and employees with the skills to drive a culture capable of creating, protecting, and delivering digital value across complex and volatile digital ecosystems.
The DVMS V4 certification training programs are aligned with NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0 and the DVMS Institute’s newly released body-of-knowledge publications, which are included in the course materials (see below).
- DVMS Cyber Resilience Awareness Training, which includes the Fundamentals of Adopting the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (2nd edition) publication
- DVMS NISTCSF Foundation Certification Training, which includes the Fundamentals of Adopting the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (2nd edition) and A Practitioner’s Guide to Building Operational Cyber Resilience (2nd edition publications
- DVMS Cyber Resilience Practitioner Certification Training, which includes A Practitioner’s Guide to Building Operational Cyber Resilience (2nd edition) and Thriving on the Edge of Chaos – A Holistic Approach to Organizational Cyber Resilience publications.
Together, these advancements position the Institute’s NISTCSF/DVMS certification training programs as a practical, teachable, and certifiable Governance, Resilience, Assurance, and Accountability (GRAA) model for modern digital enterprises.
“For years, organizations have trained professionals to manage controls, frameworks, and dashboards, yet they still struggle when digital systems fail under real-world stress,” said Rick Lemieux, Executive Director and Chief Product Officer of the DVMS Institute. “Version 4 of our certification training fundamentally changes that paradigm by teaching leaders, practitioners, and employees how to govern outcomes—using evidence, behavior, and performance and not just documented intent.”
From Framework Training to Living Cyber Resilience
Traditional cybersecurity and resilience training programs often treat governance, culture, operations, and assurance as separate disciplines. This fragmentation creates compliance-focused professionals who lack visibility into how digital systems behave at scale, across boundaries, and under disruption.
Rather than replacing the frameworks and systems that underpin these disciplines, the DVMS training teaches professionals how to integrate and elevate these frameworks and systems, such as NIST CSF, ITSM, GRC, DEVOPS, and AI, into a unified operational overlay that remains adaptive as risk, technology, and business conditions change.
“Boards and executives are being held accountable for cyber resilience without a credible way to see or validate it,” said David Nichols, Executive Director of the DVMS Institute. “Our Rev 4 certification programs close that gap by training professionals to produce continuous, outcome-based assurance that leadership can trust.”
What’s New in Version 4 Certification Training
The Rev 4 training programs incorporate the latest DVMS models and methods, including:
- Governance Overlay Design — teaching how to connect strategy, authority, and execution across digital value streams
- Behavioral Decision Engineering — enabling high-trust, high-velocity decision-making under uncertainty
- Evidence-Based Assurance — replacing static compliance artifacts with observable, verifiable outcomes
- Culture as a Managed Capability — making learning, behavior, and adaptation measurable and scalable
“These programs go beyond awareness and knowledge transfer,” said David Moskowitz, Executive Director and Content Architect of the DVMS Institute. “They train professionals to operationalize governance, make behavior observable, and turn culture into a managed system that evolves faster than threats and disruption.”
Value for Organizations and Leadership
Organizations adopting DVMS V4 are better positioned to:
- Maintain operational stability amid continuous digital disruption
- Demonstrate cyber resilience across complex ecosystems and supply chains
- Meet regulatory, assurance, and certification expectations with credible evidence
- Leverage cyber resilience as a sustained competitive advantage
- Provide executives and boards a clear, evidence-based line of sight between digital operations, business performance, and enterprise value—something traditional cybersecurity training programs do not deliver.
About the DVMS Institute
The DVMS Institute LLC is a global authority on digital governance, cyber resilience, performance assurance, and transparent accountability. Through its accredited publications, certification programs, and research, the Institute equips leaders and professionals to govern digital value outcomes in complex, high-risk environments.
Learn More
To learn more about the DVMS V4 Cyber Resilience Certification Training Programs, visit www.dvmsinstitute.com or contact support@dvmsinstitute.com.
About the Author
Rick Lemieux
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of the DVMS Institute
Rick has 40+ years of passion and experience creating solutions to give organizations a competitive edge in their service markets. In 2015, Rick was identified as one of the top five IT Entrepreneurs in the State of Rhode Island by the TECH 10 awards for developing innovative training and mentoring solutions for boards, senior executives, and operational stakeholders.
DVMS Cyber Resilience Professional Accredited Certification Training
Teaching Enterprises How to Govern, Assure, and Account for Operational Resilience in Living Digital Ecosystems
Moving From Paper to Practice-Based Operational Resilience
Explainer Video – Governing By Assurance
Despite an abundance of frameworks, metrics, and dashboards, many leaders still lack a clear line of sight into how their digital value streams perform when conditions deteriorate.
Strategic intent, organizational structures, and day-to-day behaviors are evaluated separately, producing static snapshots that fail to reveal how decisions, dependencies, and human actions interact within a dynamic digital system.
The result is governance that appears comprehensive in documentation yet proves fragile under pressure, leaving leaders to reconcile disconnected controls rather than systematically strengthen operational resilience.
What is needed is a framework-agnostic operating overlay that enables operational resilience to be governed, assured, and accounted for coherently across complex, living digital ecosystems.
DVMS Institute White Papers – The Assurance Mandate Series
Explainer Video – From Compliance Rituals to Evidence-Based Resilience
The whitepapers below present a clear progression from compliance-driven thinking to a modern system of Governance, Resilience, Assurance, and Accountability (GRAA). Together, they define an evidence-based approach to building and governing resilient digital enterprises.
The Assurance Mandate Paper explains why traditional compliance artifacts offer reassurance, not proof, and challenges boards to demand evidence that value can be created, protected, and delivered under stress.
The Assurance in Action Paper shows how DVMS turns intent into execution by translating outcomes into Minimum Viable Capabilities, aligning frameworks through the Create–Protect–Deliver model, and producing measurable assurance evidence of real performance.
The Governing by Assurance Paper extends this model to policy and regulation, positioning DVMS as a learning overlay that links governance intent, operational capability, and auditable evidence—enabling outcome-based governance and proof of resilience through measurable performance data.
The Digital Value Management System® (DVMS)
Explainer Video – What is a Digital Value Management System (DVMS)
The DVMS is an overlay management system that governs, assures, and accounts for operational resilience in complex, living digital ecosystems. It does so by ensuring living-system outcomes account for paper-system intent.
At its core, the DVMS is a simple but powerful integration of:
- Governance Intent – shared expectations and accountabilities
- Operational Capabilities – how the digital business performs
- Assurance Evidence – proof that outcomes are achieved and accountable
- Cultural Learning – for governance intent and operational capability fine-tuning
Underpinning this integration are three distinctive DVMS models
Create, Protect, and Deliver (CPD) – The CPD Model™ is a systems-based model within the DVMS that links strategy-risk and governance to execution to create, protect, and deliver digital business value as an integrated, continuously adaptive capability.
3D Knowledge (3DK) – The 3D Knowledge Model is a systems-thinking framework that maps team knowledge over time (past, present, future), cross-team collaboration, and alignment to strategic intent to ensure that organizational behavior, learning, and execution remain integrated and adaptive in delivering digital business value.
Minimum Viable Capabilities (MVC) – The Minimum Viable Capabilities (MVCs) model supports the seven essential, system-level organizational capabilities—Govern, Assure, Plan, Design, Change, Execute, and Innovate—required to reliably create, protect, and deliver digital business value in alignment with strategy-risk intent.
The models work together to enable the following organizational capabilities:
A Governance Overlay that replaces fragmentation with unity. The DVMS provides organizations with a structured way to connect strategy with day-to-day execution. Leaders gain a consistent mechanism to direct, measure, and validate performance across every system responsible for digital value.
A Behavioral Engine that drives high-trust, high-velocity decision-making. The DVMS embeds decision models and behavioral patterns that help teams think clearly and act confidently, even in uncertain situations. It is engineered to reduce friction, prevent blame-based cultures, and strengthen organizational reliability.
A Learning System that makes culture measurable, adaptable, and scalable. Culture becomes a managed asset—not an abstract concept. The DVMS provides a repeatable way to observe behavior, collect evidence, learn from outcomes, and evolve faster than threats, disruptions, or market shifts.
DVMS Benefits – Organizational and Leadership
Explainer Video – DVMS Organization and Leadership Benefits
Instead of replacing existing operational frameworks and platforms, the DVMS elevates them, connecting and contextualizing their data into actionable intelligence that validates performance and exposes the reasons behind unmet outcomes.
By adopting a DVMS, enterprises are positioned to:
- Maintain Operational Stability Amidst Constant Digital Disruption
- Deliver Digital Value and Trust Across A Digital Ecosystem
- Satisfy Critical Regulatory and Certification Requirements
- Leverage Cyber Resilience as a Competitive Advantage
The Digital Value Management System (DVMS) provides leaders with a unified, evidence-based approach to governing and enhancing their digital enterprise, aligning with regulatory requirements and stakeholder expectations.
For the CEO, the DVMS provides a clear line of sight between digital operations, business performance, and strategic outcomes—turning governance and resilience into enablers of growth and innovation rather than cost centers.
For the Board of Directors, the DVMS provides ongoing assurance that the organization’s digital assets, operations, and ecosystem are governed, protected, and resilient—supported by evidence-based reporting that directly links operational integrity to enterprise value and stakeholder trust.
For the CIO, CRO, CISO, and Auditors, an integrated, adaptive, and culture-driven governance and assurance management system that enhances digital business performance, resilience, trust, and accountability.
DVMS – Accredited Certification Training Program
Explainer Video – The DVMS Training Pathway to Cyber Resilience
The Digital Value Management System® (DVMS) training programs teach leadership, practitioners, and employees how to integrate fragmented systems into a unified, culture-driven governance and assurance system that accounts for the resilience of digital value within a living digital ecosystem.
DVMS Cyber Resilience Awareness Training
The DVMS Cyber Resilience Awareness course and its accompanying body of knowledge publication educate all employees on the fundamentals of digital business, its associated risks, the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, and their role within a shared model of governance, resilience, assurance, and accountability for creating, protecting, and delivering digital value.
DVMS NISTCSF Cyber Resilience Foundation Certification Training
The DVMS NISTCSF Cyber Resilience Foundation certification training course and its accompanying body of knowledge publications provide ITSM, GRC, Cybersecurity, and Business professionals with a detailed understanding of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and its role in a shared model of governance, resilience, assurance, and accountability for creating, protecting, and delivering digital value.
DVMS Cyber Resilience Practitioner Certification Training
The DVMS Practitioner certification training course and its accompanying body of knowledge publications teach ITSM, GRC, Cybersecurity, and Business practitioners how to elevate investments in ITSM, GRC, Cybersecurity, and AI business systems by integrating them into a unified governance, resilience, assurance, and accountability system designed to proactively identify and mitigate the cyber risks that could disrupt operations, erode resilience, or diminish client trust.
A FastTrack Approach to Launching Your DVMS Program
Explainer Video – Scaling a DVMS Program
The DVMS FastTrack approach is a phased, iterative approach that helps organizations mature their DVMS over time, rather than trying to do everything simultaneously.
This approach breaks the DVMS journey into manageable phases of success. It all starts with selecting the first digital service you want to make cyber resilient. Once that service becomes resilient, it becomes the blueprint for operationalizing cyber resilience across the enterprise and its supply chain.
Company Brochures and Presentation
Explainer Videos
- DVMS Architecture Video: David Moskowitz explains the DVMS System
- DVMS Case Study Video: Dr. Joseph Baugh Shares His DVMS Story.
- DVMS Overlay Model – What is an Overlay Model
- DVMS MVC ZX Model – Powers the CPD
- DVMS CPD Model – Powers DVMS Operations
- DVMS 3D Knowledge Model – Powers the DVMS Culture
- DVMS FastTrack Model – Enables A Phased DVMS Adoption
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