Cyber Security (ICAS)

Overview

This one-day course 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 risk of future threats

Who is this for?

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 full explanation will be provided from the ground up.

Legal professionals

• Apprentices
• Trainee solicitors
• Qualified solicitors (PQE guide)
• Partner
• Advocates
• Legal execs

Finance professionals

• Junior accountants/ Investment advisers
• CFO’s
• Finance and Investment managers / analysts
• Business partners
• Portfolio managers
• Senior finance managers
• Finance director

What will you learn?

• 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.

Format

This one-day course runs over three two-hour sessions with a day gap in between sessions 1 and 2/3.

• Session 1: 9.30am-11.30am
• Session 2 : 9.30am-11.30am; Session 3: 1.30pm-3.30pm

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