What Is Cyber Security?
Cyber security helps protect your organisation’s network, devices and data from illegal access and prevents damage and loss caused by hackers and cyber criminals.
Safeguarding your business from attack involves training employees on the ways criminals access networks and devices. It includes putting in place protection such as firewalls, authentication processes, network monitoring and security procedures to reduce the risk of theft or damage.
Why Take a Cyber Security Course?
Cyber security training helps protect an organisation’s reputation, assets, data and devices from criminal activity. Nearly half of all UK businesses experience a cyber security breach or attack each year, according to the government’s Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2020. Cyber security training can also help prevent losses from cyber crime. According to government statistics, UK businesses lose an average of £5,220 each year due to cyber crime.
Actively managed cyber security supports compliance with the GDPR and data protection legislation, reducing the risk of hefty fines as a result of data theft or a data breach.
Our Cyber Security course helps train employees in the ways hackers can attack your organisation, spot the warning signs of a hacking attempt, and learn what to do to prevent cyber crime.
Who Should Take a Cyber Security Course?
Our cyber security training is aimed at employees of all levels, including business owners, directors, managers, supervisors, staff and contractors looking to improve cyber security awareness across an organisation.
No previous or specialist knowledge is needed for our cyber security course, and our learning platform includes helpful guidance and advice to support your learning.
Training Aims and Outcomes
Our cyber security course helps you develop awareness, supporting organisation-wide training and development. You’ll discover how to keep your network, devices and data safe and how to spot the signs of a cyber security breach.
Our fully interactive course includes an assessment and completion certification, cementing understanding and supporting training-based risk assessment measures.
By completing our cyber security course, you’ll be able to:
- Understand the ways hackers and cyber criminals can target your organisation.
- Identify attempts to steal data such as phishing, spear-phishing and whaling attacks.
- Know how to set a secure password, spot insecure wi-fi and stay safe when outside the workplace
- Understand what to do if you’ve been hacked and how to manage your digital footprint online.
How Long Is the Course?
Our cyber security course duration is 45 minutes, and you can complete the training at your own pace.
What Does the Course Include?
1. Introduction
Understand what cyber security is and how it can impact your organisation and your private information.
2. Password management
Learn how to stop cyber criminals from accessing company networks and protect your data with a strong password, how to choose and remember a secure password, the benefits of passphrases, and password do’s and don’ts.
3. Digital footprint
Discover what makes up your digital footprint, how criminals can use it in social engineering and how to spot the types of attack that use your digital footprint
4. Staying safe at home
Understand how to stay safe from cyber crime when working in your business, on the move and at home, including using public wi-fi, preventing criminal access to your home network and what to do if your accounts are hacked.
5. Cyber security assessment
Test your learning and understanding of cyber security with our interactive assessment.
How Is the Course Delivered?
Our cyber security course is delivered online, and you can learn at your own pace. Courses can be accessed using a web browser over broadband on laptop and desktop PCs and mobile devices such as tablets. You can save your progress, and organisation-wide training can be recorded as part of ISO audits.
Our BABLearn platforms support organisational learning, allowing course performance to be recorded and monitored.
We offer a range of courses, from CQI and IRCA QMS Lead-Auditor courses to our own one-day ISO awareness courses across the UK. We support your certification process with in-house training, with bespoke training available.
