Cybersecurity Essentials and Innovation

Course Overview

This course empowers students, professionals and the wider community to deal with cybersecurity attacks. It provides a practical overview of challenging issues like identity credentials management and security, e-mail threats and web impersonation, or web hacking. Understanding and implementing effective cybersecurity practices can help mitigate these risks. By staying informed and adopting best practices, individuals and organizations can significantly reduce the risk of cyber threats and contribute to a safer digital environment. The following are the highlights of the course:

1. Understanding Cyber Threats: Recognize common cyber threats such as phishing, malware, ransomware, and social engineering attacks. Awareness of these threats is the first step in prevention.
2. Safe Online Practices: Adopt safe online behaviours, including using strong, unique passwords, enabling multi-factor authentication, and being cautious when clicking links or downloading attachments from unknown sources.
3. Regular Software Updates: Keep all software, including operating systems and applications, up to date to patch vulnerabilities that cybercriminals could exploit.
4. Explain the main elements of the CIA triad: confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
5. Summarize the various ways to secure your laptops and workstations.