This course is part of the Digital Security Training: Cyber Threats and Risk Management ExpertTrack
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.
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2 weeksWeekly study
5 hours100% online
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Risk Management and Security Vulnerabilities
Discover the practices behind identifying and combating security vulnerabilities
This course aims to provide an understanding of risk and risk assessment strategies, empowering you to better protect digital environments in a professional setting.
You’ll learn to identify and assess risk levels, integrating IT risk management techniques to mitigate threats to your organisation and its decision-making processes.
By the end of the course you’ll have critical insight into organisational culture and its influence on risk management. You’ll understand leadership styles and how managing risk results in enhancing cyber-aware cultures.
Understand risk assessment
You’ll explore digital security risks to understand what a risk is and discuss identifying and assessing risks, threats, and vulnerabilities.
The course then delves into the risk management model, which illustrates the processes involved in managing risk.
You’ll consider the various categories of threats, including environmental, human errors, technical failures, and deliberate acts.
You’ll look at ‘risk appetite’ and how organisations weigh up the acceptable level of risk permitted in the pursuit of its objectives.
Identify digital security risks
You’ll examine different types of risk, for example emerging risks, often described as ‘high impact, low likelihood’ and delve into the key challenges in managing these, such as the complexity of the cyberspace, a lack of historical data, and the international nature of cyber crime.
Finally, you’ll explore how to cultivate a rigorous digital security culture where information protection considerations are an integral part of an employee’s job, habits, and conduct, and how to integrate them in their day-to-day actions.
Syllabus
Week 1
Introducing Risk Management
Welcome to Risk Management
Find out what topics you'll be covering in this course on risk management.
Risks and risk management model
In order for an organisation to manage risk, it needs to identify and evaluate the various risks it faces.
Threats
A threat is any action or event with the potential to cause harm.
Impact and vulnerability
Risk assessment plays a very big and important role within organisations.
Coming up next
Reflect on what you have learned and see what's coming up next.
Week 2
Culture and Leadership Types
Introduction to Week 2
This week will investigate the methods of managing risks, the theoretical approaches, and the challenges of managing emerging risks.
Concepts and challenges
Concepts, theoretical approaches and challenges of managing digital security risks.
Cyber security culture
Cyber security culture, dimensions and the role of leadership.
Summary and reflection
Reflect on what you have learned and see what's coming up next.
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Learning on this course
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What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Explain risk assessment strategies, including identifying and assessing level of risk
- Apply IT risk management and techniques to mitigate threats to an organisation and its decision-making processes
- Demonstrate an understanding and critical insight into organisational culture and its influence on risk management
- Identify leadership styles that enhance cyber-aware cultures
Who is the course for?
This course is for anyone who is keen to increase their knowledge of digital security risks and the tools and techniques used to guard against them.
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