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.
Digital Value Management System® (DVMS)
Training Leaders to Govern Digital Value Outcomes Through Operational Resilience, Performance Assurance, and Transparent Accountability
Despite abundant frameworks and dashboards, leadership still struggles to see how their complex digital system actually behaves at its boundaries under stress.
Leadership intent, structure, and day-to-day behavior are viewed separately, creating fragmented, flat perspectives that hide how real decisions and human responses interact within digital value streams.
As a result, organizations can look well-governed on paper while still experiencing catastrophic events in practice. Without an integrated view, leaders end up managing isolated components and controls rather than governing the system as a whole.
The Digital Value Management System® (DVMS) training programs teach leadership, practitioners, and employees how to integrate fragmented frameworks and systems such as NISTCSF, 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 adaptive culture
- Measures Performance Assurance through evidence-based outcomes
- Ensures Transparent Accountability by making intent, execution, and evidence inseparable
At its core, the DVMS is a simple but powerful integration of:
- Governance Intent – shared expectations and accountabilities
- Operational Capabilities – how the digital business actually performs
- Assured Evidence – proof that outcomes are achieved and accountable
Through its MVC, CPD, 3D Knowledge, and FastTrack Models, a DVMS turns this integration into three distinctive 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 Organizational Benefits
Instead of replacing existing operational frameworks, 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, organizations 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
DVMS Leadership Benefits
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 White Papers
The whitepapers below present a coherent progression that shifts organizations from compliance-driven thinking to a modern system of Governance, Resilience, Assurance, and Accountability (GRAA). Collectively, the three papers define a comprehensive system for building and governing resilient digital enterprises, grounded in evidence rather than assumptions.
The Assurance Mandate Paper sets the stage by showing why traditional GRC artifacts provide only reassurance—not evidence—and calls boards to demand forward-looking proof that their organizations can continue to create, protect, and deliver value under stress.
The Assurance in Action Paper elevates the conversation from leadership intent to managerial execution, demonstrating how the DVMS operationalizes resilience by translating outcomes into Minimum Viable Capabilities, connecting frameworks through the Create–Protect–Deliver model, and generating measurable assurance evidence that managers can use to demonstrate real performance rather than activity.
The Governing by Assurance Paper elevates the approach to the policy and regulatory level, showing how DVMS functions as a learning overlay system that links governance intent, operational capability, and verifiable evidence into a continuous loop—enabling regulators, agencies, and enterprises to govern by outcomes rather than checklists and to prove capability with measurable, auditable performance data.
DVMS Cyber Resilience Certified Training Programs
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.
This investment fosters a culture that is prepared to operate within a system capable of transforming systemic cyber risks into operational resilience.
DVMS NISTCSF Foundation Certification Training
The DVMS NISTCSF 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.
This investment fosters IT, GRC, Cybersecurity, and Business professionals with the skills to operate within a system capable of transforming systemic cyber risks into operational resilience.
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.
This investment fosters IT, GRC, Cybersecurity, and Business practitioners with the skills to assess, design, implement, operationalize, and continually innovate a Digital Value Management System® program that operationalizes a shared model of governance, resilience, assurance, and accountability for creating, protecting, and delivering digital value.
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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