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SkillSoft Explore Course

IT Skills     Security     Security Accreditations and Best Practice     Becoming Security Aware

There are security issues everywhere. Managers must keep abreast of security risks and threats.


In this course, you'll identify standard security risks and their origins. You'll also learn about more diverse types of security issues and the potential threats to an organization's security.


You'll be given examples from daily life that expose us to security risks. To wrap up, you'll outline effective methods to reduce common security risks that render organizations vulnerable via different channels.



Objectives

Cybersecurity Awareness: Exposure to Security Risks

  • discover the key concepts covered in this course
  • list and describe the critical information security issues -confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, non-repudiation, privacy, and trust
  • recognize the standard security threats to an organization
  • differentiate using examples what exposure, threat or risk, security attack, exploits or breach of security, and impact/severity mean
  • illustrate using examples common actions from daily work-life that expose people to security risks
  • recognize the importance of threat identification and describe the concepts of threat modeling and threat identification sources and methods
  • define the STRIDE model in the context of threat identification
  • define the PASTA threat modeling method and its stages
  • identify why and how security is everyone’s responsibility
  • list different methods to reduce security risks
  • summarize the key concepts covered in this course