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Cyber Awareness

The purpose of this course is to experience a cyber-attack, increase personal awareness and improve behaviours around the main cyber threats (e.g. phishing), and existing regulation.

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Description

Learner Profile:

All Staff should attend cyber awareness training on a regular basis.

Learner prerequisites:

None.

Learning outcomes:

Learners will:

· Influence over seventy specific security behaviours to meet security awareness, compliance requirements and reduce human risk.

· Participate in attack and defend scenarios to increase competence.

· Assess security culture and measure behavioural change by visualizing risks, tracking progress with data and metrics you can’t get anywhere else.

· Support people across multiple platforms by giving people the push they need to act and provide real-time, frictionless help when they need it most.

· Run phishing simulations that tell you what drives behaviours, find out why people click on, engage with, and report phishing attempts—or why they don’t.

Course Content:

· Desktop simulation exercises


· Overview of cyber threats and response in Ireland


· Social engineering


· Malware & breach recovery


· Device security


· Browsing securely


· Public Wi-Fi


· Preventing identity theft


· Passphrases


· Am I really a target?


· CybEssentials


· Threat focus: Browser-in-the-browser


· Protecting your devices


· Are you really a target?


· Supply chain: No weak links here


· Working remotely


· Spotting fake emails


· Threat focus: Ransomware


· Sophisticated attacks


· Passphrases


· Security incidents: Your role


· Preventing identity theft


· Data privacy & your rights


· GDPR & your rights

Duration:

Direct hours: 4 hours.


Self-Direct learner hours: 10 hours.

Exam/Continuous Assessment details:

Continuous Assessment via refresher tests.

Certification / Awarding Body/Credits:

Certification: Cybsafe Certification in Security Awareness.


Awarding Body: UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) & the Chartered Institute of Information Security (CIISec).


Credits: N/A

Progression Pathway:

Learners can progress to: Cyber Security Training Skills at Entry Level.