Course description
Manage the Cyber Threat for Finance Professionals
This course is designed for accountancy, finance and business professionals working in all organisations from small business, large corporates or financial services or who are just interested in learning more about the vulnerabilities organisations are exposed to and the options available to protect their organisation. With a focus on practical skills throughout, this course provides the ability to apply skills as well as understand them.
Upcoming start dates
1 start date available
Suitability - Who should attend?
Prerequisites
None
Outcome / Qualification etc.
What you'll learn
- How to facilitate a risk assessment to identify the potential threats and the vulnerabilities they may exploit and the business impacts of a cyber-attack.
- Recognise that the risks are constantly changing and the need for continuous process improvement. Including how to monitor and report on the effectiveness of the cyber/information security practices.
- Understand how to manage an incident and the processes required to effectively respond and recover.
- Understand that effective security protection is a combination of people, process and technology and how to create a culture of cyber and information security.
- Understand the physical and logical access controls which should be implemented to adequately and appropriately protect the organisation’s information and technology resources.
- Understand the potential risk responses and mitigation actions to appropriately and adequately protect the business from the identified cyber risks.
Training Course Content
Introduction
- Objectives of the course
- Outline of the cyber threat
- What’s different about cyber
The basic hygiene factors
- Secure configuration of IT infrastructure
- Malware protection
- Configuring network devices securely
Approach and effective access controls
- Implement approaches and effective access controls
- The importance of 2 factor authentication
Understand risks
- Principles of risk management
- Manging the risks effectively
Understand and manage third-party supplier risks
- Manging the full supply chain
- Information value and sensitivity
- Supplier impacts on service delivery
6. Understand and manage third-party supplier risks
- Manging the full supply chain
- Encouraging a cyber-security aware culture
- Words into actions
Respond and recovery
- Incident management capability
- Respond and recover plan for breaches
Continuous improvement
- The need for performance monitoring
- Defining appropriate KPIs
- Performance dashboard
Skills and resources
- The importance of access to the right skills
- The need for up-to-date training
Concluding themes
Course delivery details
This course is offered through ACCA, a partner institute of EdX.
3-5 hours per week
Expenses
- Verified Track -$199
- Audit Track - Free
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