The Basics of Cyber Security 2020

Explore the impact of security breaches on organizations by examining risks, personal protection risks, risk types, and top threats like identity theft, malware, and phishing, including reputation and financial losses.

Protect personal information by creating strong passwords, securing emails and devices, and following safety guidelines. Learn to recognize phishing, use encryption, backups, and safe browsing to minimize risk.

Explore the top cyber threats facing organizations, including identity theft, data breaches, malware, phishing, ransomware, and insider risks, and how human error and social engineering compromise security.

Master essential cyber threats by strengthening password security with strong, unique passwords and password managers, securing email, physical devices, and social media, and addressing ATM fraud risks.

Define risk management and outline its main functions, methodology, and how organizations respond to risks, linking probability and consequences to achieve sustainable benefits while controlling negative impacts.

Identify, analyze, and respond to risks through goal-based, scenario-based, classification-based, and common-review methods. Monitor and control risks as an ongoing process aligned with the organization's goals, strategy, and environment.

Plan and implement risk responses to address negative risks and unlock positive benefits. Choose strategies to accept, shift, avoid, reduce, or share risks, then execute the treatment plan.

Explore how risk monitoring and control relies on ongoing reporting and auditing to continuously identify, examine, and communicate risks through internal and extended reports to stakeholders.

Explore core cryptography concepts, including encryption, plaintext to ciphertext, the secret key and algorithm, and the cryptography lifecycle, and learn the three goals of confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity.

Analyze encryption elements and the two main types—symmetric and asymmetric—using public and private keys, with examples like Caesar cipher, DES, AES, RSA, and DSA.

Define business continuity, outline its components, and develop a plan to keep critical operations running, with disaster recovery as a key, it-focused component.

Explore the basics of business continuity policy, program, and framework, embedding continuity into strategy and daily operations, with vulnerability and impact analyses guiding plans and tests to restore operations.

Explore seven stages of business continuity planning, from establishing a planning committee and conducting a business impact analysis to mitigating risk, developing plans, training, and testing.