Hands On Training

The Cyber Security Landscape

Future Learn

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Course Features

Duration

2 weeks

Delivery Method

Online

Available on

Lifetime Access

Accessibility

Mobile, Desktop

Language

English

Subtitles

English

Level

Beginner

Effort

3 hours per week

Teaching Type

Self Paced

Course Description

Cyberattacks can have serious consequences for individuals, governments, and businesses. Cyber security is not something that can be ignored. This course will introduce you to the key issues, challenges, and opportunities that are shaping the global cyber security landscape today. This course will cover emerging cyber security threats, cyber attacks, the potential impact they could have on organizations, and the specific threats presented by new technologies. FutureLearn has made it possible to earn a degree since 2017. This course can be viewed as a beginner course in a degree program. It will give you an idea of what the subject is like, but it also gives you the opportunity to start your journey towards a degree. You can join FutureLearn's program if you like this course and start to work towards your degree.

You don't have to complete a degree in order to take this course.

Course Overview

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Skills You Will Gain

What You Will Learn

Demonstrate a systematic understanding of relevant knowledge about organisations, their external context and how they are managed

Demonstrate an understanding of the changing cyber threat landscape and the developments in cyberspace

Apply knowledge to a range of situations including IT security, finance, accounting, and organisational behaviour, taking account of the inter-relationships of these topics and their interactions with the business and the industry and external environment

Demonstrate an understanding of appropriate techniques sufficient to allow detailed investigation into relevant cybersecurity management issues

Target Students

This course is for anyone looking to increase their knowledge of cyber security and protect themselves against cyber attacks

Course Content

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Module 1: Current and emerging security implications

Module 2: Networks and security, loss of the traditional LAN and LAN perimeter

Module 3: Consumerisation of corporate technology through apps, tablets and smartphones

Module 4: Client-side threats, web-server security, web-applications security

Course Instructors

Anitha Chinnaswamy

Instructor

Anitha Chinnaswamy is an Assistant Professor at the Coventry Business School. As a Research Associate with CBiS, she is involved in teaching & research that pertains to data & information management.

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