Enrolment

Author

Kenneth R. van Wyk

Overview

This course is intended to give you a solid foundation in understanding the principal issues of cybersecurity. The course assumes a minimal working knowledge of the topic, and introduces the core concepts of modern cybersecurity.

Once your baseline knowledge is established, you will learn about common security vulnerabilities, both technical and procedural, found in today’s information systems. You will also how these vulnerabilities can result in business risks to an organisation and the key concepts in mitigating security risks.

Topic discussed

• Risk management and internal control

• Risk identification and assessment

Learning Objectives

• Learn about the security threat landscape
• What cybersecurity problems do we face today?
• Just how bad is the problem?
• Understand building blocks
• Security objectives (confidentiality, integrity, availability)
• Security controls (identification, authentication, authorisation)
• Discover security vulnerabilities
• Technical
• Procedural
• Implementation vs. design defects
• Learn about translating vulnerabilities into business risks
• Why should we care about technical vulnerabilities?
• Identify mitigating risks
• Protection
• Detection
• Response