Becoming a Cyber Aware Professional

I began the Cyber Aware Professional course as part of Purple Team Australia. Do you know whether it’s best to keep all your passwords in your head or in your browser? Which is safest? If not then this course is for you, helping you to set up the basics to keep yourself cybersafe.

The course was very well written and I was appreciative that it was both interactive in design, and minimised technical jargon making it easy to understand.

The course was divided into two parts, with the first unit focussing on passwords, password management, digital footprint management, and secure internet use. It had the cohort discussing their experiences with password phrases, password manager software and Virtual Private Networks. The section on social engineering was particularly timely given the increase in Pig Butchering scams seen globally.

If you don’t know what that is you can read more here: https://medium.com/@kommunitas/new-scam-alert-866e10ec6f29

The second unit had a governance, risk and compliance (GRC) focus and looked at risks, assets, vulnerabilities, as well as policies, procedures and safely allowing physical access.

To complete the course two 500-word Case Studies had to be submitted and assessed. The Case Studies were well thought out and asked us to consider two everyday scenarios faced by regular business professionals, and whether an incident had occurred, whether the incident could have been prevented, and post incident recommendations.

I recommend this course and I think that it was written simply enough for those with no prior knowledge to complete, whilst most business professionals would learn something.