Cybersecurity and Privacy for Managers and Professionals

MGMT X 408.812

This course focuses on the cyber security management factors required to protect people, information, infrastructure, and other assets as our lives and our critical infrastructure are becoming increasingly digitally dependent.

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What you can learn.

Learn the elements of secure systems design and management, integrating people, processes, and technology into a layered defense-in-depth
Ensure appropriate privacy levels are maintained for individual users, businesses, government, and other organizations within specific enterprise networks
Learn how to integrate cyber risk into more traditional aspects of risk management

About this course:

This course focuses on the special cybersecurity management considerations required to protect people, information, infrastructure, and other assets, as our lives and our critical infrastructure are becoming increasingly digitally dependent. Learn about cybersecurity management frameworks, such as the new NIST framework and ISO 27001, 02. Learn the elements of secure systems design and management, integrating people, processes, and technology into a layered defense-in-depth to ensure appropriate privacy levels are maintained for individual users, businesses, government, and other organizations within specific enterprise networks. Learn how to integrate cyber risk into more traditional aspects of risk management. Gain the skills and the tools to plan and budget for security and communicate the case for security investments. Course materials and discussions include the evolution of private and public security models, “perfect storm” scenarios when physical risk and cyber risk manifest simultaneously, the natural tension between cyber privacy rights and national cyber security, new and emerging tools and technology, and management roles and responsibilities.