Course content

This course will give you an understanding of cyber crime. It covers how this could impact you at home or affect you in the workplace. It will also raise your awareness of the risks and effects it has on you and others.

You'll explore the methods used to maintain cyber security, including:

• the principles of vulnerability
• penetration testing
• user access control

These are things that organisations do behind the scenes to protect you. You'll also learn about what you can do to protect yourself.

You'll explore legislation and codes of conduct which are relevant to cyber security.

This is an accredited course. After you've completed the five tasks you'll achieve an Award in Cyber Security Level 1 (Gateway Qualifications).

This course will enable you to:

Know about cyber crime

• Identify the forms of cyber crime and possible motives for this.
• Outline how cyber crime can affect users and organisations.
• Describe the tactics cyber criminals use to defraud people.

Know about protective methods to maintain cyber security

• Identify the routine protective methods and ways to maintain cyber security.
• State and know the importance of cyber security testing.
• Set up user access controls to protect you and your data.

Know about legislation and codes of conduct for cyber security

• Know the protections for and the responsibility of users and organisations as set out in key legislation.
• Describe ethical and unethical conduct in relation to cyber security.

You'll also build the following skills for work:

• Working as part of a team, sharing ideas and helping peers to complete a task.
• Having a good attitude to plan your own work and complete it within a set timeframe.
• Be a good listener and follow instructions.
• Be able to adapt the way you work when things change or if you need to switch tasks quickly.
• Be resilient and be able to stick with a task. Even if things don’t go to plan you should learn from setbacks.
• Develop your literacy and numeracy skills.