Cybersecurity Essentials for Organizations

Categories: Cybersecurity
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About Course

12 months of access. Your one-time payment gives you access to this course for 12 months from the day you are enrolled. It does not renew automatically. Want the whole catalogue? All-access membership is coming soon.

How this course works

  • 12 months of access from the day you enrol
  • Self-paced lessons, hands-on labs and resources
  • Certificate of completion when you finish
  • Secure checkout with card (Stripe) or PayPal

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Cyber threats do not only affect large enterprises. This course gives owners, managers and IT staff a practical, right-sized approach to security: understanding the threats, protecting identities, devices, networks and data, building good habits in your people, and responding when something goes wrong.

It includes the Canadian context: privacy law, breach reporting and the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security baseline controls.

Use scripts at your own risk. The PowerShell scripts and commands in this course are provided for educational purposes only, “as is” and without warranty of any kind. Always review and test them in a non-production environment before use. You are solely responsible for any script or command you run in a production environment and for any resulting data loss, service interruption or other damage. Okowil Solutions Inc. accepts no liability for the use of this material. Read the full terms.

What Will You Learn?

  • Understand who attacks organizations and how
  • Protect accounts, devices, networks and data
  • Build backups that survive ransomware
  • Create essential policies and an awareness programme
  • Prepare and practise an incident response plan

Course Content

The Threat Landscape
Who attacks organizations, how the common attacks work, and how to think about risk.

  • Who attacks and why
  • Phishing, ransomware and business email compromise
  • Risk: likelihood, impact and appetite
  • Module 1 quiz: The Threat Landscape

Protecting Identities and Devices
Passwords, MFA, patching, endpoint protection and secure remote work.

Protecting Networks and Data
Firewalls, segmentation, encryption, classification and resilient backups.

People and Process
Awareness, essential policies and managing vendor risk.

Detect, Respond, Recover
Monitoring, incident response and the Canadian legal and guidance context.