Upskilling (in-person): Introduction to Cyber Incident Response Planning

This is a Scottish Funding Council-funded course.

YOU MUST BE LIVING IN SCOTLAND TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THIS COURSE.

IF YOU ARE NOT LIVING IN SCOTLAND PLEASE DO NOT REGISTER. YOUR REGISTRATION WILL BE CANCELLED.

This is an in-person course at Edinburgh. Please do not register if you are not living in Scotland and you cannot attend.

Cyber-attacks are a daily occurrence for every single business that has at least one computer connected to the internet. Most of them are random and they are stopped by countermeasures like firewalls.

Sometimes, however, these attacks are successful, and the results are often catastrophic. A data breach with sensitive information, a ransomware attack that ends with the victim paying the criminals or sometimes a simple Denial of Service attack that brings down a website and stops the business from offering their services and communicating with their clients.

This course will introduce you first to the different types of online threats. You will be exposed to a very wide spectrum of criminal activity and you will learn about how you can get prepared.

During the course, you will be introduced to the Incident Response Cycle, concepts like Cyber Risk, Threat Awareness and Playbooks.

This course will give you a taste of what it is like to prepare for not only one, but many different attack vectors.

Some of the items you will be taught will include:

• Cyber threats for individuals
• Cyber threats for businesses
• Social Engineering
• What is an Incident Response Plan
• What is Cyber Risk
• What is Risk Assessment
• What is a Risk Assessment Matrix
• Severity Matrix
• Playbooks (individual courses of response to each threat)

At the end of the course, you will participate in a collaborative exercise and you will create your own Playbook against a pre-determined Cyber Attack.

Anyone without a technical background that has an interest in cyber security, and wants to better understand the threat vectors at play against their business or project.

At the end of this course you will be able to:

1. Identify online threats
2. Determine the risk from different threats
3. Understand the need for a CIRP
4. Understand how a CIRP works, and how it should be deployed
5. Be able to advise your organisation on all matters you were made aware of, and propose action (including further training)

A certificate of attendance will be issued to everyone who has attended at least 4 out of the 6 classes.

January 10th 2023, 17:30-19:30

January 17th 2023,, 17:30-19:30

January 24h 2023,, 17:30-19:30

January 31st, 2023, , 17:30 - 19:30

February 7th, 17:30 - 19:30

February 15th, 17:30 - 19:30 (In-person / Online) This session will be a collaborative online event, so it is suitable from working on it from home for those who wish to do so.

The sessions shall be recorded, and will be available on demand, after the class, but will not be streamed live, in order for the instructor not to split his attention between two different groups.

THIS IS AN IN-PERSON EVENT AT EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY.

THIS EVENT WILL NOT BE STREAMING ONLINE AND WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE ON DEMAND TO ANYONE WHO DID NOT ATTEND.

PLEASE ONLY REGISTER IF YOU LIVE IN SCOTLAND/EDINBURGH

Host or Publisher The Cyber Academy