Introduction to cybersecurity: Need for cyber security, Personal data: Online and offline identity, Data, Computing devices. Organizational data: Types of organization’s data, Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability, consequences of cyber breach, Examples. Attackers and cybersecurity professionals: Types of attackers, internal and external threats. Cyberwarfare: Definition, purpose of cyberwarfare.
Attacks, Concepts and techniques: Security vulnerabilities and the different types of vulnerabilities and malware, techniques used by attackers to infiltrate a system, characteristics and operation of a cyber-attack. Trends in the cyber threat landscape.
Protecting Data and Privacy: Protecting your personal devices and data, Authentication Techniques, protecting devices from threats, safeguarding privacy.
Protecting The Organization: Equipment, data, and the commonly used security terms, techniques for protecting organizations from cyber-attacks, behaviour-based approach to cybersecurity.
- Editing Teacher: Harriet Ratemo