Cybersecurity Overview

Cybersecurity Overview: For Managers, Executives and Everyone

Certificate from Webster University

The world is undergoing significant digital‐transformations, drastically changing the way we conduct business and carry out daily transactions. Cybersecurity assures the proper operation of everything from financial transactions to power generation, affects every size and scale of business, government, and more. Cybersecurity has become increasingly critical in the cyber-age.

Cyber-attacks can be extremely expensive, and cost lives, fortunes, and the future of nations. Attacks are getting more sophisticated, more frequent, and reaching more people around the world. That makes it important for you to become aware of the effects of cybersecurity issues.

Learn end-to-end perspectives to play your cybersecurity role: From Board of directors/top-executives to Chief Information Security Officer, to Managers, Engineers, and admins
Learn from the best in the world expert instructor, who earned the title “Father of the Computer Virus” and devised defenses used in more than 80% of computers worldwide
Get practical insights from an (ISC)² Fellow, with over 40 years of experience in the cybersecurity industry and academia, who has been helping top executives struggling with cybersecurity issues
Guest lectures from several world-class experts, to give you global perspectives
Real-life use-cases and case studies to give you practical insights
Receive a Certificate of completion in “Cyber Security Overview”

PREREQUISITES:

Basic knowledge of computers

Module-1: Basics of Cybersecurity

Basic issues & implications, what to do about them?
How the business works, Duty to protect
Risk-management, Security-management
Control-architecture, and Technical security-architecture
Decision-Process
Cyber-Lab Sample

Module-2: Dimensions of Cybersecurity

Critical Infrastructure
IT Vs. OT
Management Vs. Technology

Module-3: Vertical drill-downs and case-studies

Medical-Healthcare Case Study
Water Case Study
City-power and Tribal-investments case-study
City Government Case Study
Banking & Financial Services
Cyber Board Game Startup Case Study

Module-4: Global Perspectives from world-class experts

Chris Blask: Organizing-Cybersecurity
Dr. Jennifer Bayuk: Risk-Analysis
Prof. Lucina Duranti: Records Management
Dr. Alana Maurushat: Ethical Hacking

PROGRAM FACULTY

Dr. Fred Cohen has over 40 years of experience building companies and supporting risk management and strategic decision making for enterprises of all sizes. He is globally recognized as an innovative expert in information protection and cybersecurity. He is one of the only 20 Cybersecurity experts in the world, recognized as a fellow of (ISC)² at “Cybersecurity and IT Security Certifications and Training”. Dr. Cohen works closely with global experts to help bring knowledge of all things Cyber to program attendees from around the world.

LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-fred-cohen/

The more detailed profile can be found at http://fc0.co/

Dr. Cohen has a long history of being ahead of the curve:

Won several international awards for his work in Cybersecurity
Led the team that defined the information assurance problem as it relates to critical infrastructure protection
Did seminal research in the use of deception for information protection
His "Deception for Protection" series of papers is widely cited, and the techniques he pioneered are now in global use
A leader in advancing the science of digital forensic evidence examination
Top-flight information protection consultant and industry analyst for many years
Authored more than 200 invited, refereed, and other scientific and management research articles
Wrote monthly articles on cyber since 1995 and wrote several books on information protection
His "Enterprise Information Protection Architecture", "Challenges to Digital Forensic Evidence", and "Digital Forensic Evidence Examination" are used in graduate classes and other venues worldwide
Leading security practitioners around the globe have used his "Chief Information Security Officers ToolKit" series of books and booklets
His "Frauds Spies and Lies and How to Defeat Them" book has been the subject of radio talk shows
The research community has widely used his series of "Infosec Baseline" studies as stepping off points for further research
His "50 Ways" series is very popular among practitioners looking for issues to be addressed
His "World War 3 .Information Warfare Basics" is highly regarded among the thinkers in this arena
Founded the College Cyber Defenders program at Sandia National Laboratories that ultimately led to the formation of the CyberCorps program
Taught and testified on issues of digital forensics as an admitted expert in local, State, Federal, and other courts in criminal and civil matters
Was named the "most famous hacker" of all time by ABC News in 2009

Cybersecurity Overview: For Managers, Executives and Everyone

Instructor: Dr. Fred Cohen

PROGRAM FACULTY