The Institute’s Mission is to design an overlay governance system that orchestrates operational resilience, performance assurance, and transparent accountability across digital value chains.
The Institute’s Vision is to create training and tools for organizations of any size to deploy this innovative solution
From Visibility to Viability – The Dual Pillars of Cyber Resilience
As enterprises accelerate the adoption of cloud-native architectures and complex adaptive systems such as AI, they face a new order of complexity. Infrastructure dissolves into services, workloads become ephemeral, and traditional risk boundaries blur.
Organizations are now composed of interconnected technologies, cloud services, data pipelines, software platforms, and automated processes, all operating alongside human and non-human AI actors. In this environment, risk no longer resides within isolated components; it emerges at the boundaries where systems, dependencies, and decisions interact.
This is the domain in which the Digital Value Management System® (DVMS) certified training programs operate.
The DVMS Cyber Resilience Professional certified courses teach a disciplined, outcome-driven approach to governing operational resilience, performance assurance, and transparent accountability as an integrated dimension of digital business performance.
In January 2017, the Institute released its NIST Cybersecurity Framework accredited certification training programs to teach organizations of any size, scale, or complexity a standardized approach to adapting the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and its informative reference control systems (NIST 800-53, ISO 27001) across an enterprise and its supply chain.
In January 2020, the Institute released an updated version (Rev 2) of its NIST Cybersecurity Framework training program.
In November 2022, the Institute released its first two bodies of knowledge, providing detailed guidance on operationalizing a NIST Cybersecurity Framework program using a Digital Value Management System® (DVMS).
The Institute also released another update (Rev 3) to its NIST Cybersecurity Framework training programs, which now includes the DVMS publications in its courseware kit.
In February 2024, the Institute, along with its partners APMG International and TSO Publishing, announced a new standardized brand identity and certification badging system focused on Cyber Resilience. This update not only reflected a candidate’s understanding of how to operationalize the NIST Cybersecurity Framework but also how to build an adaptive, culture-enabled DVMS governance, assurance, and accountability system that ensures digital value resilience in complex digital ecosystems.
In January of 2025, the Institute released its third body of knowledge publication, Thriving on the Edge of Chaos – A Holistic Approach to Organizational Cyber Resilience.
At its heart, the book highlights the critical role of organizational culture as the “glue” that binds strategy, leadership, and execution, ensuring sustainable digital resilience. Through actionable insights and real-world examples, it equips leaders with the knowledge to embrace complexity, harness disruption, and confidently manage a digital world that demands constant reinvention.
In January of 2026, the Institute released Version 4 (V4) of its DVMS Cyber Resilience Professional accredited certification training programs to support not only the NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0. updates, but more importantly, the integration of the Thriving on the Edge of Chaos – A Holistic Approach to Organizational Cyber Resilience publication into the DVMS training portfolio. V4now enables organizations of any size, scale, or complexity to support the two pillars of organizational cyber resilience.
Instead of replacing existing operational frameworks (NIST CSF, ITIL) and governance domains (Cybersecurity, GRC, AI), the DVMS elevates them, connecting and contextualizing their data into actionable intelligence that enables organizations to:
At its core, the DVMS overlay is a simple but powerful integration of governance intent, operational capabilities, assured evidence, and continuous learning powered by the models below.
Create, Protect, and Deliver (CPD) – This systems-based model within the DVMS links strategy to risk and governance to execution, thereby setting up the creation, protection, and delivery of digital value as an integrated, continuously adaptive organizational capability.
Minimum Viable Capabilities (MVC) – This model supports the seven essential, system-level organizational capabilities of Govern, Assure, Plan, Design, Change, Execute, and Innovate to reliably create, protect, and deliver digital value at organizational boundaries, aligned with strategy-risk intent.
3D Knowledge (3DK) – This model supports a systems-thinking approach to cross-team knowledge and collaboration, aligned with strategic intent, to ensure organizational behavior, learning, and execution remain integrated and adaptive in creating, protecting, and delivering digital value.
Question Outcome / Question Metric (QO/QM) – The QO/QM approach supports governance as testable intent by defining a clear Question Outcome (QO), with one or more Question Metrics (QM) that provide observable, decision-relevant evidence that the system can actually deliver the intended outcomes in the organizational living digital system
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 rather than an abstract concept. DVMS provides a repeatable way to observe behavior, collect evidence, learn from outcomes, and evolve faster than threats, disruptions, or market shifts.
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, the DVMS provides a unified approach to organizational digital value management, operational resilience, and regulatory compliance.
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