Course Overview

Cybersecurity Basic explores the world of cybercrime. This course will ensure that you gain an appreciation of companywide measures to protect against cyberattacks and their own role in the success of these defense measures. 

Most importantly, it will help you recognize phishing attacks and understand what steps to take to mitigate the effect when a cyberattack has been successful. It emphasizes the importance of practicing safe social media behavior to prevent cyber criminals from mining sensitive personal and company data. 

Audience profile 
Each participant leaves with their own personal cybersecurity plan that prepares them to enter the fight against cybercrime

Course Outcome

1. Protect and defend computer systems and networks from cybersecurity attacks. 

• Characterize privacy, legal and ethical issues of information security. 
•  Identify vulnerabilities critical to the information assets of an organization. 
• Define the security controls sufficient to provide a required level of confidentiality, integrity, and availability in an organization’s computer systems and networks. 

2. Diagnose and investigate cybersecurity events or crimes related to computer systems and digital evidence. 

• Diagnose attacks on an organization’s computer systems and networks. 
• Propose solutions including development, modification and execution of incident response plans. 
• Apply critical thinking and problem-solving skills to detect current and future attacks on an organization’s computer systems and networks.

3. Effectively communicate in a professional setting to address information security issues. 

• Communication orally and in writing, proposed information security solutions to technical and nontechnical decision-makers. 
• Apply business principles to analyze and interpret data for planning, decision-making, and problem solving in an information security environment.