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Introduction to cybersecurity

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Description

Total length of the course: 2-4 hours

This course provides an introduction to the origin and meaning of cybersecurity and associated concepts, demonstrating how it incorporates multiple disciplines and research areas. It addresses the human aspects of cybersecurity, including the user context as well as human aspects of attacker-defender dynamics. Finally, it focuses on common cybersecurity controls, showing how they can help to quickly raise cybersecurity levels in local community organizations, but with some significant limitations, before exploring the growing topic of cyber harms and risk management.

Content details

An introduction to cybersecurity
Session overview
What is cybersecurity and why does it matter?
Cybersecurity spans multiple subjects and disciplines
How ransomware works
Countering ransomware
Psychology and cybersecurity
Law and cybersecurity
Summary
The human aspects of cybersecurity
Session overview
The three roles of people in cybersecurity
Users and predictability
Why does social engineering work?
Insecure system design
System design – best practices
Defender challenges
Summary
Cybersecurity controls
Session overview
What is cybersecurity risk management
Types and levels of cybersecurity control
UK Cyber Essentials
US NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0
CIS Critical Security Controls v8
Are cybersecurity controls effective?
Summary
What is cyber harm and why does it matter?
Session overview
Risk management revisited
Assessing cyber risk
Different kinds of cyber harm
Cyber harm models in practice
Summary
Additional information
References