Cybersecurity

Overview

This online course gives participants a general insight into cybersecurity in the workplace. The course teaches participants about cybersecurity best practice, including how to identify internal and external threats to cybersecurity, understanding the consequences of a cyberattack and how to protect the organisation’s digital information.

Objectives

By the end of the course, trainees will be able to:

• Define cybersecurity
• Understand the consequences of a cyberattack
• Recognise internal and external threats to an organisation’s cybersecurity
• Identify the different types of cybersecurity risks
• Help prevent information and cybersecurity threats

Topics

• Cybersecurity
• What is cybersecurity
• Challenges to cybersecurity
• Cybersecurity is everyone’s responsibility
• Threats to cybersecurity
• Internal threats
• External threats
• Protecting assets
• Risks to cybersecurity
• Consequences of cyberattacks
• Malware
• Phishing
• Reducing cyberattacks
• Counteracting malware
• Social media safety