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Cybersecurity affects everyone, including in the delivery of basic products and services. If you or your organization want to better understand how to optimize your cybersecurity risk management, this is the course for you and your colleagues to take -- from seasoned professionals to your non-technical colleagues.
Your instructor, Dr. Charles Harry, has served on the front lines with the NSA (National Security Agency) and as an expert advising corporate and institutional leaders on managing cybersecurity risk. And he brings a rare and engaging perspective to help you learn cybersecurity from the ground up.
Cybersecurity Risk Management Across Critical Systems lays the groundwork to understand and explore the key issues facing practitioners and policy makers attempting to manage the problem of cybersecurity, from its technical foundations to the domestic and international policy considerations surrounding governance, privacy, and risk management for the resiliency of critical systems, to applications for achieving the goals of an enterprise, an institution, or a nation. This course is designed for students with some or no background in information technology, whether a novice or active in the cybersecurity field (engineers and computer scientists will learn the broader context and business aspects of cybersecurity), and will provide the principles to understand the current debates shaping a rapidly evolving security landscape.
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6 videos1 assignment
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6 videos•Total 85 minutes
New Video•7 minutes
Defining Risk and the Need to Estimate It•16 minutes
Generating a Risk Register as the Basis for Managing Risk•26 minutes
Qualitative Risk Estimates•10 minutes
Quantitative Risk Estimates•11 minutes
Semi-Quantitative Risk Estimates•14 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
Week 1 Quiz•30 minutes
Estimating Primary Risk (Week 2)
Module 2•2 hours to complete
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5 videos1 assignment
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5 videos•Total 98 minutes
Assessing Primary Risk: The Audience•17 minutes
Field of Play: Technical Structures•28 minutes
Likelihood of Occurrence•22 minutes
Driving Primary Consequences•19 minutes
Calculating Primary Risk•12 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
Week 2 Quiz•30 minutes
Estimating Secondary Risk (Week 3)
Module 3•1 hour to complete
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4 videos1 assignment
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4 videos•Total 56 minutes
Audience: Company Leadership•11 minutes
Field of Play: Organizational Processes•12 minutes
Things That Impact the Likelihood of Occurrence•18 minutes
Driving Secondary Consequences•14 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
Week 3 Quiz•30 minutes
Estimating Second Order Risk (Week 4)
Module 4•1 hour to complete
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3 videos1 assignment
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3 videos•Total 36 minutes
Audience: Policy Makers•11 minutes
Field of Play: National Critical Functions and Critical Infrastructure Providers•14 minutes
Things That Impact the Likelihood of Occurrence•11 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
Week 4 Quiz•30 minutes
Cyber Attack Scenarios and Generating the Risk Register (Week 5)
Module 5•1 hour to complete
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2 videos1 assignment
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2 videos•Total 18 minutes
The Threat Landscape and Cyber Scenarios•12 minutes
Calculating Risk and the Problem of Uncertainty•7 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
Week 5 Quiz•30 minutes
Communicating and Managing Risk Effectively (Week 6)
Module 6•1 hour to complete
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4 videos1 reading1 assignment
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4 videos•Total 25 minutes
Know Your Audience•6 minutes
Know the Story You Want to Tell•6 minutes
Wrap Up & Modern Context Considerations in the AI Era•4 minutes
Cybersecurity: Next Steps•9 minutes
1 reading•Total 10 minutes
Regular Cybersecurity & AI Updates •10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
Week 6 Quiz•30 minutes
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