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Improving Cyber Security for Your Business
Rating: 4.8 out of 5(5 ratings)
453 students

Improving Cyber Security for Your Business

All You need to Protect Yourself Against Ransomware
Created byDermot Downey
Last updated 7/2022
English
English [Auto],

What you'll learn

  • Identify IT security risks
  • What are the main IT security threats to businesses
  • What must you do to stay secure in todays online world
  • A system & plan for improving your cyber security stance & readiness

Course content

2 sections • 9 lectures • 54m total length

  • Current State of Ransomware7:00

    Explore the current state of ransomware, including double and triple extortion, ransomware-as-a-service, and the costs, myths, and contingency plans for defense.

  • Some History - How Have We Gotten Here4:10

    Ransomware evolved from 1989 floppy-disk attacks to a threat, with Bitcoin since 2009 enabling anonymous payments; Cryptolocker 2013 used public key encryption, and NotPetya 2017 showed warfare, underscoring protection.

  • Timeline of an Attack6:57

    Explore how ransomware attacks unfold in three phases—access, data collection, and encryption—and how phishing and exposed remote desktop protocol enable breaches, with strategies to prevent entry and recover quickly.

  • Ransomware Demo - What an Attack Looks Like3:48

    Watch a ransomware demo showing how Cerber infects a computer, encrypts files, and displays ransom notes via phishing or USB, illustrating ransomware as a service.

  • Better, Simpler Passwords5:06

    Learn to create long, unique passphrases and manage them with password managers, reduce password reuse, and enable two-factor authentication to defend against credential stuffing and default passwords on IoT devices.

  • Better, Simpler Passwords Demo1:58

    Demonstrates using a password manager (LastPass) with a master password and two-factor authentication to auto-fill Amazon login and securely access accounts via a phone app code.

Requirements

  • No requirements of prerequisites needed

Description

A friend of mine runs his own successful accountancy firm, and spends his time managing bookkeeping, payroll and tar returns on behalf of his clients. One day he received an email from a client with an invoice attached, but soon after opening it, his computer started to act strange. Messages popped up on his screen, his desktop background changed, and he couldnt open any of the client files saved on his hard drives.


Because of this he was unable to proces any of his clients accounts, and as it was coming up to a tax deadline, his clients were faced with fines due to late and overdue filings. And because of that, his firm took a knock to its reputation which made some of his clients leave and scared others away from working with him. It was a very stressful and worrying time for him.


He finally had to call in a computer specialist firm to help and try restore his data, but this cost him tens of thousands, and as his backups were not up to date, there were many late hours spent manually re-entering data into his systems. And even with that, there was a lot of client data which simply could not be restored.


These days, if you look at how he has set up his IT systems, you will see many layers of redundancy and security at play, and has a full Disaster Recovery plan in place to quickly overcome and IT disaster that could threaten his livelihood again.


In this course you will learn how to recognise any gaps in the security of your IT systems and what you can do to plug them. By reducing your risk of cyber attack, you will not only protect your revenue and brand reputation, but also minimise the cost, scale and impact of any cyber attack if it does happen in the future.

Who this course is for:

  • Enterpreneurs, Managers and Small Business Owners looking to raise their cyber security

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