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Cyber Security for Leaders

Course Overview

Format

Introductory Course
45 Study Minutes
Online Study
Self-Printed Certificate

Accreditation

1 CPD Hour
CPD Certified

Course description

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. 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.

Overview

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.

You will 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, 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

Who is it for?

Roles including:

Anyone in management or leadership within an organisation

How the online courses work

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Alternatively if you already know the title of the training you’re looking for you can use the search bar located in the centre of the homepage and go directly to the course you want.
Buy the course

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 purchased a course, you will be able to send this course to other people using your system account with Enable by entering the new learner’s email address so that they may access the training and set up their own system account with our Learning Management System.
If you are not 100% satisfied with your course then we offer a 30-day, no hassle money-back guarantee. To request a refund, you should email our learner support team with your receipt stating why you would like to be reimbursed. You, or your learners, must not have completed the training in order to make a valid refund claim. Any claim made after the training has been completed will be invalidated.
Take the course

This online course consists of a series of pages in which an instructor will talk learners through the lesson material. Pages may include supporting pictures, graphs, animation or extra sounds to help with the learning where appropriate. Some lessons will include challenges/quizzes to help learners stay engaged and interested in the material. Lessons can be taken in any order and each lesson may be paused and resumed at any stage.
The course is self-paced so learners decide how fast or slow the training goes. There is no deadline for completion but some of our courses have a test at the end to check that learners have understood the material. If the course has a test at the end then learners are required to achieve a 75% pass mark to successfully complete the course. Once learners have passed the test they are awarded a certificate, which can either be downloaded digitally or sent as a physical copy if this option was chosen when purchasing the course.
Your Certificate

Upon completion of any of our courses, learners will be able to download a digital certificate from Virtual College and will include the accrediting bodies logo where applicable.
If you have bought the posted certificate option (available on select courses), a high quality, seal embossed, certificate will be sent out at the beginning of the following working week.