Cyber Security Threat Mitigation

1. Understand complex business cyber security threats and risks

1. Analyse major cyber breaches and methods of attack that have severely impacted businesses and public organisations
2. Examine how to calculate the business impact of a suspected or actual cyber security breach

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2.  Understand recent mega breaches and explain malware and ransomware attacks

1. Apply threat and risk management concepts and models
2. Explain the terms malware, ransomware and other forms of intentional malicious cyber attacks

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3.  Understand how threats and malicious hackers are advancing and developing customised intrusion tools

1. Discuss the development of customised intrusion tools and their use by malicious hackers
2. Analyse how an intrusion occurred to cause a mega data breach

• The assessment strategy for this course is designed to test all the learning outcomes.
• Learners must demonstrate successful achievement of all learning outcomes to pass the course.

• The assessment criteria for a pass will be presented with the summative exercise.
• Further information and guidance on the assessment will be made available through the tutor.

To pass the unit a 40% overall grade must be achieved.