The Cyber Security Landscape

Online Course

Future Learn
The Cyber Security Landscape

What is the course about?

The Cyber Security Landscape
The course The Cyber Security Landscape is an online class provided by Coventry University through Future Learn. It may be possible to receive a verified certification or use the course to prepare for a degree.

Understand cyber security today: explore threats and the key functions of cyber security within a commercial organisation.

Course description
  • Develop your knowledge of cyber security in today’s world
  • 2 weeks
  • Cyber attacks have major implications for individuals, governments and businesses. No one can afford to be complacent about cyber security.
  • This course introduces some of the most significant issues, challenges and opportunities shaping today’s global cyber security landscape.
  • You will explore emerging cyber security risks, types of cyber attacks and the impact that they can have on organisations, and the specific threats posed by new technologies.
  • Current and emerging security implications
  • Networks and security, loss of the traditional LAN and LAN perimeter
  • Consumerisation of corporate technology through apps, tablets and smartphones
  • Client-side threats, web-server security, web-applications security
  • Operating system security
  • Concepts, problems and issues related to modern technologies
  • Demonstrate a systematic understanding of relevant knowledge about organisations, their external context and how they are managed
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the changing cyber threat landscape and the developments in cyberspace
  • Apply knowledge to a range of situations including IT security, finance, accounting, and organisational behaviour, taking account of the inter-relationships of these topics and their interactions with the business and the industry and external environment
  • Demonstrate an understanding of appropriate techniques sufficient to allow detailed investigation into relevant cybersecurity management issues
  • This course is for anyone looking to increase their knowledge of cyber security and protect themselves against cyber attacks.
  • Please note that the individuals detailed in the ‘Who will you learn with?’ section below, are current staff members and may be subject to change.
  • Coventry University
  • Coventry secured gold in the UK Government’s 2017 Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) and is University of the Year for Student Experience in The Times & The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2019.

Prerequisites & Facts

The Cyber Security Landscape

Course Topic

Development, ECMAscript, Web Development

University, College, Institution

Coventry University

Course Skill Level

Course Language

English

Place of class

Online, self-paced (see curriculum for more information)

Degree

Certificate

Degree & Cost

The Cyber Security Landscape

To obtain a verified certificate from Future Learn / Coventry University you have to finish this course or the latest version of it, if there is a new edition. The class may be free of charge, but there could be some cost to receive a verified certificate or to access the learning materials. The specifics of the course may have been changed, please consult the provider to get the latest quotes and news.
Coventry University
The Cyber Security Landscape
provided by Future Learn

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