Cyber Security for Leaders
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Cybercrime is on the rise and is an increasing risk to any organisation. Managing an organisation or team requires a range of business and professional leadership skills, including knowledge of how cyber security works and your role in preventing a range of highly disruptive incidents and accidents.
Course Level: Introductory Course
Duration: 45 Minutes
Accreditation: CPD Certified
Certificate: Self-Printed Certificate
Description
Learn the skills you need to keep your organisation safe against cyber security threats, identify risk areas, know your responsibilities to your team and organisation and comprehend how to establish a cybersafe culture.
Why take this course?
The content of this e-learning course includes:
- The risk to cyber security
- Your role and responsibilities
- Keeping your system secure
- Building your defences
- Protecting against risks at work and home
- Effective incident response
- Mobile working policies
- The role of social media
- Keeping devices secure
- Training outcomes
This short cyber security leadership course will help you to:
- Understand how you can personally help to keep cyber safe
- Understand how to ensure that your organisation keeps functioning and thriving
- Understand the implications of the Awareness of Cyber Security suite and how you can best be prepared for issues that may arise
- Deliver the best leadership to your team and those completing the Awareness of Cyber Security suite
- Consider what your organisation’s policies are and reach out to colleagues, demonstrating that you fully understand your responsibilities
Accreditation
This course is accredited by CPD and the certificate, awarded upon successful completion, can be used the log your hours against.
Course duration
Approximately 45 minutes to complete. As an e-learning course you can complete this training in convenient stages. The system will record your progress throughout.
Target audience
This course is aimed at anyone in management or leadership within an organisation.
Entry requirements
There are no entry requirements for this course.
Test and certificate
The end of course test consists of 15 multiple choice questions. Learners are required to achieve a 75% pass mark, and, if necessary, may attempt the test six times at no extra cost. If learners do not achieve the 75% pass mark, further attempts may be given by contacting our support team.
Learners will be able to download a digital certificate on completion.
What you'll learn
- Understand how you can personally help to keep cyber safe
- Understand how to ensure that your organisation keeps functioning and thriving
- Understand the implications of the Awareness of Cyber Security suite and how you can best be prepared for issues that may arise
- How to deliver the best leadership to your team and those completing the Awareness of Cyber Security suite
- Consider what your organisation’s policies are and reach out to colleagues, demonstrating that you fully understand your responsibilities
Suitable for
- Anyone in management or leadership within an organisation
Certification
Upon completion of any of our courses, learners will be able to download a digital certificate from Virtual College which will include the accrediting bodies logo where applicable, the learner's name, the title of the course and the date of completion.
If you have purchased the posted certificate option, available on selected courses, a high quality, seal embossed, certificate will be sent out the following working week after completion.
Self-Printed Certificate Option
Upon completion of the course, a digital certificate will be available to download instantly.
Recommended renewal: 3 years
Whilst none of our certificates have an expiry date it is strongly recommended that the training is completed every three years. This is based on industry best practice to ensure awareness and knowledge of the latest guidance and legislation.
Frequently Asked Questions
After you have completed your purchase, you will be able to access your training straight away!
When buying one of our courses, you will need to enter a valid email address which will be used to create your account with our Learning Management System – Enable – where you will take the training. We will also send your purchase receipt to this email address, and any additional courses purchased in future using the same email address will be added to your system account.
Once you have completed your purchase, you will be able to send the course(s) to other people using your system account with Enable by entering the learner’s email address so that they may access the training and set up their own system account with our Learning Management System.
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