Target Audience
This course is designed for mid-level managers, supervisors, and team leads in
commercial organisations, state & local government agencies,
who are responsible for overseeing cybersecurity within their departments.
Participants should have a solid understanding of their department’s operations
& possess basic familiarity with cybersecurity concepts.
Course Delivery
This is an online-only, self-paced course, which allows participants to learn at their own convenience.
Each module includes video lectures, case studies, interactive exercises,
& knowledge assessments to reinforce learning outcomes.
On average, participants are expected to complete the entire course in approximately eight hours.
Course Outline
Cyber Risk Awareness: Introduction to cyber risks in everyday life;
Malicious actors’ methods to establish contact;
Personal behaviours affecting the probability of being compromised
The Cyber Threat Environment: Identifying cyber risks to your organisation;
Common threat actors & methods; Cyber threat landscape, including ransomware attacks
Cyber Impacts – How Cyber Threats Affect Your Agency: Types of impacts from cyber threats;
Technologies causing cyber risk exposures; Tools & tactics for executing cyber-attacks
Computer Networks – Weakness Attack Types Modelling: Information required for cyber security risk assessments;
Basics of network computing & its weaknesses; Cyber security defences to identify inherent risks
Cyber Risk Quantification – How & Why: Basics of cyber risk quantification; Components of cyber risk assessments;
Conducting top-down cyber risk assessment exercises
Cyber HFACS – Human Error – Measurement & Reduction: Role of human error in cyber security breaches;
Organizational factors impacting cyber resilience; Latent & active conditions in cybersecurity
De-Risking Cyber – Frameworks & Tools: Availability / Use: Frameworks & methods for cyber risk assessments;
Link between cyber resilience & business continuity; Vendor risks, risk transfer, & data regulations
Artificial Intelligence – Present & Future: Current utilization of AI; Future directions of AI in cyber-attacks
Building cyber resilience requires top-level knowledge of both cyber security & cyber risk management,
with input to overall operational risk management programmes.
We aim to provide the strategic insight and actionable take-aways, to facilitate the building of organisational
cyber resilience at all levels, regardless of specific functional domain.
Within this course, participants will gain an understanding of the fundamental components of cyber de-risking,
without there being a requirement to understand cyber security
at the operational level – this domain is served by IT security departments.
Gaining the knowledge of what needs to be embodied into a cyber risk management programme,
enables more accurate & informed decision making,
by those responsible for creating & maintaining cyber security robustness on an ongoing basis.
Align all personnel with your cyber risk strategy.
Enable all personnel profiles, within any operational domain, to understand the big picture
of how their awareness builds cyber resilience.
Gaining an understanding of the crucial elements that comprise cyber security & cyber risk management,
enables you to assess & allocate limited resources in an informed manner.
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