Overview

This concise online course gives participants an overall understanding of information security in the workplace. The course teaches participants how to keep physical internal information secure, how to spot threats to an organisation’s information and how to protect internal information from attacks. It encourages participants to reflect on their individual responsibility in keeping their organisation’s information secure.

Objectives

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

• Define information security
• Understand the benefits of a positive information security culture
• Identify threats to information security
• Recognise the impact of an information security attack
• Identify methods of protecting internal information

Topics

• Information security
• What is information security?
• CIA triad of information security
• Information security culture
• Compromising information security
• Information security risks
• Threats to information security
• Threats to information security
• Protecting internal information
• How to protect internal information
• Aware, assess, adequate