Cyber Security Awareness

$29

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Course Information

This course is an awareness course that addresses the main issues surrounding Cyber Security Awareness.

The course is divided into 4 parts:

  1. Password management and authentication,
  2. Social engineering,
  3. Managing your digital footprint: secure social media, and
  4. Data protection.

Aim

To reinforce practical ways to ensure safe working online and reduce human cyber risk, by educating people to understand, identify and avoid cyber threats, in order to prevent or mitigate harm to the organisation and its stakeholders.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course for Cyber Security Awareness, you will be able to:

  1. Understand the purpose of cyber security training,
  2. Use passwords effectively to protect your data,
  3. Define what social engineering is and how to protect yourself,
  4. Use social media securely,
  5. Keep your devices safe, and
  6. Identify and report cyber security incidents and suspected compromises of systems and their resources.

At the successful completion of this course, you will be issued with a Statement of Completion.

More Information

More than 2 in 10 Australian businesses (22%), experienced a cyber security attack during the 2012-22 financial year. This is compared to almost 1 in 10 (8%) in the 2019–20 financial year as report in the Australian Bureau of Statistics data.

Cyber security is the practice of protecting systems, networks and programs from digital attacks.

This course is one of the controls put into place to protect business and customer data, intellectual property, the business reputation, costs and longevity.

The “defence in depth” analogy, is used in cyber security to add layers of controls to more effectively defence a business against an attack.

People are fatigued by small and constant interruptions, but small measures such as updating antivirus software, having a secure and unique password, keeping software up to date, even locking your screen when you are away from your computer, are all small measures to protect the business from an attack.

The LastPass password manager data breach that occurred could have been prevented had their employee kept their software up to date on their home computer. The software that the hacker compromised to access personal data, had not been updated for over 3 years.

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Technical Requirements

Working Webcam

Undertaking this course will require you to have constant access to a webcam or similar device. Details are as follows:

  • You MUST have a webcam on a PC, Laptop, iPad type tablet device in order to do this online course.
  • If you do not have a webcam capable device then you will NOT be able to do this online course.
  • The webcam must remain ON for the duration of the course.
  • Do NOT turn off, cover or block the view of the webcam whilst you are logged into the course.
  • At random times through the course the webcam takes a picture of who answered questions, this is to maintain the integrity of the course by seeing the person who enrolled in the course is the person answering the questions.
  • If it is found the webcam is blocked, turned off or covered and there is no vision for those pictures then the assessment is deemed void, and it will be reset again by assessors.
  • The camera must be activated while you are online doing the course, as part of a continuous verification process, and to enable you to answer any video-based questions when prompted.
  • Ensure your camera and device are located and used where the privacy of others can be maintained.

Internet and Camera Access

Undertaking this course online will require you have internet access with reasonable speed and at least one of the following:

  • A computer with a webcam, or
  • A smartphone with a front facing camera, or
  • A tablet type device (iPad or similar) with a front facing camera, or
  • A laptop with a camera.
  • If completing this course at your place of work, please ensure any company firewalls don’t prevent you from accessing the course or sending your video assessments through for marking. If unsure, check with your training or I.T department.

Valid Browsers

  • Please ensure you ONLY use Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge to access the course and the assessments.
  • Do NOT use Safari, Internet Explorer or Firefox as they are known to have issues with accessing the video assessments and it will not allow you to complete the course.