Cybercrime universally causes harm to individuals, SMEs, primes, critical infrastructure systems, and governments. As we live in the Internet era, devices connected to the Internet can be exposed to cyber threats. Cyber assurance is vital for business continuity, security of our business processes, supply chain systems and the data systems..

Cyber security is a collection of methods used to protect the integrity of network components, applications, and data from unauthorised access, alteration, or deletion. Enterprises use both cyber security and physical security to protect against unauthorised access to data centres and other computerised systems.

In this course, you will learn about cyber security practices and technologies to safeguard digital assets. Further, you will learn cyber security concepts, security design principles, concepts of risk-based cyber security, cryptography, principals of authentication, network security, cyber threats and mitigations strategies and legal/ethical aspects.

You will particularly be able to discuss concepts of firewalls, cloud security, wireless network security, email/web security, intrusion detection and malicious software.