Enrolment

Author

Kirk Phillips, CPA, CMA, CFE, CPB

Overview

This online course focuses on blockchain and cryptocurrency risks and covers the emergence of new risks that did not exist in the traditional business models. You will explore key management risk, wallet and code risk, fork and chain split risk, consensus risk, legacy risk and fungibility risk. In addition, this course expands on regulatory concerns and standards related to cryptocurrencies.

Topic discussed

• Risks related to human factors and risks outside of people and organizations
• Regulatory risks, standards and legality
• Securing cryptocurrency
• Governance, consensus and fork/chain split risks
• Interoperability, encryption and fungibility risk

Learning Objectives

• Distinguish between risks associated with human factors and risks outside the control of the person or organization.
• Identify regulatory risks, standards, and legality associated with blockchain and cryptocurrency adoption.
• Recall how key management is critical for securing cryptocurrency and how it relates to legacy risk and long-term security.
• Recognize how governance, consensus, and fork and chain splits risks are related to one another and the challenges of managing chain split coins.
• Identify risks that are future focused.