Cyber security

Member price: £335 + VAT

Non-member price: £395 + VAT

Timing for 2023: 9.30am-4.30pm (full day)
Timing for 2024: 9.30am-11.30am (sessions 1 & 2); 1.30pm-3.30pm (session 3)

What you will learn

This one-day course, split over thee two-hour sessions, helps to translate the often confusing terminology surrounding cybercrime and provides an up-to-date factual overview of Cyber Security in today’s world, in an easy-to-understand format. This informative session is based on real-life events and offers advice, tips, and recommendations on what individuals and businesses can do to help stay protected, and potentially minimise the risk of future threats.

Who should attend

This informative course will benefit anyone who wants to learn how to minimise risk in today’s culture of computing, where cybercrime has become commonplace. While the course will cover some basic elements of networks, exploring web-code, and some technicalities of the Internet, no programming or technical knowledge is necessary to attend, as a full explanation will be provided from the ground up.

Outline

• Build an understanding of why cyber security should be part of everyday life
• Discover easy ways of staying on top and implementing precautionary measures in almost any business
• Understand the costs involved in products and services
• Fundamentals of Cyber Security
  • Why is Cyber Security crucial?
  • What is a vulnerability and how to mitigate risk?
  • Potential consequences of a cyber attack
  • Implications on a business
• Types of cyber security attacks
  • Common types of security threats (e.g. ransomware)
  • Artificial Intelligence and threats of higher complexity
• Activity: Cyber Lab game
• Darknet and similar markets
  • Exploring Darknet
  • New challenges and discoveries
  • The onion router (Tor)
• Site certification
  • SSL connection verification
  • SSL in cloud computing
  • Potential problems with a website security certificate
• Analysing web-code for non-programmers
  • Intro to getting to know source-code
  • Brief on ‘Ethical Hacking’
  • Activity: find the code
• Further cyber activities
  • Case study: Cybercrime on the NHS and Ukraine (WannaCry & WanaCryptor 2.0 | Petya | Eternal
  • Blue | Shadow Brokers)
  • How could Artificial Intelligence potentially safeguard systems
  • Quizzes
• Bonus topics:
  • Data leaks | breaches
  • Exposure to public WiFi
  • Safety measures anyone can implement
  • Homework topics for further study

All exercises and project files used on the course will be available to take home.

Information for Online Live dates

Please read the following guidance carefully:

• In addition to the Online Classroom, you will need to have your own version of Excel open to complete the exercises
• It does prove to be challenging to follow-on with the exercises using only 1 screen as you will need to be regularly switching between open windows. We recommend to either:
  • Extend from a computer to a 2nd screen, or
  • Use 2 computers, or
  • Use a tablet for the online classroom and a computer for the Excel
• Please note that our courses are based on Excel for Windows and it is recommended that you are using at least Excel 2010 or a later version. MAC users are welcome but please note that there may be some tools and functionality that will differ from what is being presented. The presenter will accommodate for MAC versions on the course.

Questions?

BPP | Tel: 0330 060 3303 | Email: ldicas@bpp.com