Full course description
Target Audience
This course is designed for mid-level managers, supervisors, and team leads in Florida state and local government agencies who are responsible for overseeing cybersecurity within their departments. Participants should have a solid understanding of their department's operations and possess basic familiarity with cybersecurity concepts.
Mode
This online, self-paced course allows participants to learn at their own convenience. Each module includes video lectures, case studies, interactive exercises, and knowledge assessments to reinforce learning outcomes. On average, participants are expected to complete the entire course in approximately eight hours.
Description
- Cyber Risk Awareness: Introduction to cyber risks in everyday life; Malicious actors' methods to establish contact; Personal behaviors affecting the probability of being compromised
- The Cyber Threat Environment: Identifying cyber risks to your agency; Common threat actors and methods; Cyber threat landscape, including ransomware attacks
- Cyber Impacts – How Cyber Threats Affect Your Agency: Types of impacts from cyber threats; Technologies causing cyber risk exposures; Tools and tactics for executing cyber-attacks
- Computer Networks – Weakness Attack Types Modeling: Information required for cyber security risk assessments; Basics of network computing and its weaknesses; Cyber security defenses to identify inherent risks
- Cyber Risk Quantification – How & Why: Basics of cyber risk quantification; Components of cyber risk assessments; Conducting top-down cyber risk assessment exercises
- Cyber HFACS – Human Error – Measurement & Reduction: Role of human error in cyber security breaches; Organizational factors impacting cyber resilience; Latent and active conditions in cybersecurity
- De-Risking Cyber – Frameworks & Tools: Availability / Use: Frameworks and methods for cyber risk assessments; Link between cyber resilience and business continuity; Vendor risks, risk transfer, and data regulations
- Artificial Intelligence – Present & Future: Current utilization of AI; Future directions of AI in cyber-attacks
Certification
Upon successfully completing the course, participants will receive a certificate of completion issued by the University of South Florida (USF). This certificate acknowledges their proficiency in cybersecurity management and demonstrates their commitment to enhancing their skills and knowledge in cybersecurity. Participants can showcase this certificate on their professional profiles, such as LinkedIn, to highlight their expertise.