Cyber Security for Managers: Tools for Cyber Action Plan

Explore practical cybersecurity tools and methodologies from NSG College, designed to secure home and business environments, address social behavior in cyber domains, and monitor risks while communicating with family.

Develop practical steps to protect digital assets at home and work, understand common web app attacks and cyber terms, and learn web intelligence basics for safer travel and community security.

Develop confidence in cybersecurity within your department and organization, learn how to protect computers, and recognize the constant threat of cyber attacks among individuals, organizations, and nations.

Identify and manage organizational cyber risks and boost your department’s cybersecurity confidence. Explore common attack vectors, from reconnaissance to malware, including keystroke logging, account hijacking, data theft, and injection techniques.

Identify how crimeware, a malicious software, enables illegal online activity such as data theft, password logging, session hijacking, and ransom.

Identify insider threats, including malicious insiders and privileged-access abuses, and mitigate with strict access management, monitoring, and audits to prevent data breaches and improper transfers.

This lecture highlights physical security for managers, protecting personnel, hardware, networks, and data from physical threats such as fire and vandalism; it emphasizes encryption, backups, and securing devices.

Explore cyber espionage, the theft of secrets through digital networks, including eavesdropping on financial transactions and disrupting industrial control systems. Learn types and remedies like patching software and user training.

Learn how distributed denial of service attacks deprive users of normal services by leveraging compromised systems, causing slow networks, site unavailability, and spikes in spam emails.

Explore pos intrusions that target card-present transactions in restaurants and retail, detailing how attackers compromise devices, harvest data, and exfiltrate to third parties. Also review remedies like restricting pos access.

Explains how payment card skimming steals magnetic stripe data at retail outlets and how copied data enables purchases, with remedies like tamper-evident seals and staff training.

Learn about web application attacks, notably cross-site scripting and injection, and see how attackers exploit vulnerabilities; explore defenses like two-factor authentication and monitored systems.

This lesson examines miscellaneous errors that cause data breaches, such as misdelivered emails and posting private information, and recommends data loss prevention and review processes.