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LinkedIn Learning

Cybersecurity for Executives

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

Improve your cyber risk management skills. Learn the basics of cybersecurity and the top cyber risks affecting executives and their organizations.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • You are a target and the first line of defense
1. Understand the Big Picture
  • Understand the big picture overview
  • Why are you a target?
  • Example: Organized crime
  • Why are you in the line of fire?
  • Example: Cyber war cross-fire
  • Insider threat: Cyber failure
2. How to Think About Cybersecurity
  • Think about cybersecurity summary
  • Not what you buy, how you travel
  • Germ theory
  • Where to get IT support
3. Avoid Phishing Attacks
  • Avoid phishing attacks summary
  • What are phishing attacks?
  • Organizational response to phishing attacks
4. Stop Malicious Code
  • Stop malicious code summary
  • What is malicious code?
  • Organizational response to malicious code
5. Avoid Identity Theft
  • Avoid identity theft summary
  • What is identity theft?
  • Organizational response to identity theft
6. Avoid Financial Cyber Theft
  • Avoid financial cyber theft summary
  • What is financial cyber theft?
  • Organizational response to financial cyber theft
7. Special Topics
  • Special topics summary
  • Reasonable cybersecurity
  • Cyber insurance
  • Cloud computing
  • Internet of Things
  • Contractual firewalls
  • Third-party cyber risk management
  • Cybersecurity-related sales objectives
  • Active defense
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Kip Boyle

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