Master the essentials of digital security and risk management with this ExpertTrack from Coventry University.
5 hrs per week
Approx 10 weeks
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Established
1992
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Coventry
Course 1
The Cyber Security Landscape
4.5 (6 reviews)Understand cyber security, types of cyber threat, and the development of an effective security policy.
2 weeks
5 hours per week
Week 1
Introduction to The Cyber Security Landscape
- The cyber security landscape
- Cyber security and types of threats
- The impact of cyber crime
- Summary
Week 2
Cyber Security Breaches
- Introduction to Week 2
- Risks
- Summary
Course 2
Risk Management and Security Vulnerabilities
Learn the fundamentals of IT risk management and the techniques used to mitigate threats to an organisation and its people.
1 test
2 weeks
5 hours per week
Week 1
Introducing Risk Management
- Welcome to Risk Management
- Risks and risk management model
- Threats
- Impact and vulnerability
- Coming up next
Week 2
Culture and Leadership Types
- Introduction to Week 2
- Concepts and challenges
- Cyber security culture
- Summary and reflection
Course 3
Information Security Policy and Management
Explore the guiding principles of information security policies and their influence on businesses and organisations.
1 test
2 weeks
5 hours per week
Week 1
Information Security Planning and Governance
- Information Security Policy (ISP)
- Information System Governance (ISG)
- Information Security Management Systems (ISMS)
- Access control
- Summary and reflection
Week 2
Contingency Planning and Incident Response
- What is contingency planning?
- Contingency planning
- Incident response
- Summary and reflection
Course 4
Cryptography and Digital Certificates
Understand cryptographic concepts and explore cyber laws and the legal implications of globalised data and access.
1 peer-graded assignment
2 weeks
5 hours per week
Week 1
Principles of Cryptography
- Introduction to cryptography
- Encryptions
- Digital signatures and certificates
- Securing communications
- Crypto system attacks
- Summary and reflection
Week 2
Cyber law and legal responses to cyber crime
- Welcome to Week 2 and cyber law
- Cyber crime
- The legal response to cyber crime
- Cloud security
- Sumary and reflection
Course 5
The Future of Cyber Security and Emerging Technologies
Discuss the future of cyber security, emerging technologies, the challenges they pose and the development of cyber solutions.
1 peer-graded assignment
2 weeks
5 hours per week
Week 1
Cyber Risk and Strategy
- Integrating cyber risk and strategy
- Roles of the board in cyber security
- Critical infrastructure
- Digital ecosystems
- Sumary and reflection
Week 2
The Future of Cyber Security
- Emerging technologies and economies
- Peer Graded Assignment
- The workforce and technology
- Cyberspace 2025
- Global cooperation
- Summary and reflection
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