Course Description
Every organization encounters risk in its efforts to survive. As these risks continue to grow with the explosion of cloud computing, organizations must now prepare for risks from new and various adversaries. How should organizations go about mitigating, transferring, avoiding, and even eliminating risks? How can organizations better understand the foundations of risk management and its role in cybersecurity?
In this Cybersecurity Basics course, you will learn about how organizations use risk management frameworks and practices to protect themselves against online threats and vulnerabilities. You will be able to design and implement strategies that will ensure your organization’s assets are safe by understanding the relationships between assets, vulnerabilities, threats, and risks. These skills are essential for any successful information technology or cybersecurity professional.
What You'll Learn
- Describe the importance of risk management and its role in cybersecurity
- Identify risks in the form of threats and vulnerabilities to an organization's assets
- Assess the effectiveness of an organization's security controls
- Perform a risk assessment, including evaluating loss and assessing risk acceptability
- Select control strategies such as transference, mitigation, acceptance, and termination
- Apply risk management best practices and frameworks to protect against online threats
Key Takeaways
- Organizations use risk management frameworks and practices to protect themselves against online threats and vulnerabilities.
- Understanding the relationships between assets, vulnerabilities, threats, and risks is key to keeping an organization's assets safe.
- Risks can be mitigated, transferred, avoided, or eliminated, and control strategies include transference, mitigation, acceptance, and termination.
- As risks grow with the explosion of cloud computing, organizations must prepare for threats from new and various adversaries.
- Risk management skills are essential for any successful information technology or cybersecurity professional.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is this course for?
The course is aimed at information technology and cybersecurity professionals, since these risk management skills are described as essential for any successful IT or cybersecurity professional.
What topics does this course cover?
It covers the relevance of risk management, risk analysis and assessment, mitigation and response, risk management standards and frameworks, threats and vulnerabilities, threat models and agents, compliance vs risk management, control strategies, biometrics, single sign-on, remote user access and authentication, encryption in-flight and at-rest, account takeovers and identity theft, and mobile browser attacks and malware.
What skills will I gain from this course?
You will gain skills in cyber risk, cybersecurity management, information security management, IT risk management, threat management, and vulnerability management.
What will I be able to do after completing the course?
You will be able to design and implement strategies that ensure your organization's assets are safe by understanding the relationships between assets, vulnerabilities, threats, and risks.
