Study Guide

Objective

You are able to recognize the importance of cybersecurity in different areas.
You understand the control based Information Governance.
You understand the cybersecurity vulnerabilities, risks and controls.
You are able to describe some important tools in defensive and offensive cybersecurity.

Content

How do you define cybersecurity in different sectors, such as the industrial Internet, energy engineering, maritime technologies, ICT, health care and financial services?
Why is cybersecurity management important?
What are security controls and why are they important?
How to defend against global threats with the help of e.g. risk management, next generation firewalls, and penetration testing?

Materials

Online self-study material, online resources and remote laboratory exercises.
Online lessons are on MS Teams platform. Lessons are recorded.

Teaching methods

Scheduled track:
You participate into scheduled contact lessons. You studies are progressing in the pace of the group schedule and self paced learning activities.

Blended and Independent tracks:
You study the topics by yourself and execute required learning activities. In this case contact your responsible teacher in the beginning of the studies to agree on the required activities and demonstration of your skills.

Employer connections

CyberLab learning environment

Student workload

Working load is 135 hours.

Evaluation scale

1-5

Qualifications

No prerequisities

Further information

The course is implemented by means of e-learning.