Cyber Security & Privacy Essentials

Key Learning Objectives

• Understand the Threats: You will gain updated insights into the current cybersecurity threats. This course will help you understand the most common forms of cyber attacks such as malware, ransomware, phishing, business email compromise and social engineering.
• Awareness about Threat Actors: With this course, we aim to bust some myths about who hackers really are, what they are after and what they can do. The course very simply breaks down the kind of personal and business damage that cyber criminals can cause today.
• Fundamentals of Information Security: The course covers the principles of confidentiality, integrity, and availability (CIA triad). It encourages you to think of the most important areas where time and resources should be invested.
• Privacy Principles and Regulations: You will get an overview of privacy laws and regulations that everyone should be aware of. The primary ones covered are GDPR and HIPAA. You'll be able to articulate the key principles of GDPR and explain the importance of privacy for the data subject.
• Risk Management, Governance and Compliance: You will be able to identify, analyse, and understand how to mitigate risks to information assets. You'll gain an understanding of what these information assets are and what Information Governance is all about.
• Cybersecurity Best Practices: We go into the best practices for securing both organisational and personal systems. The course offers simple strategies on how you can be safer online, mitigating human error and avoiding chances of misconfiguration.
• Incident Response and Recovery: This course covers, in some detail, how to prepare for, respond to, and recover from cybersecurity incidents effectively. You will understand how effective cyber incident response ensures minimised impact of cyber-attacks and downtime.
• Security Policies & a Culture of Security: The course shows you why cybersecurity awareness training is absolutely essential. It will also guide you through the development and implementation of comprehensive security policies and procedures.