UCS8011

Understanding The Human Cyber Threat

The role of people within cybersecurity

Understanding cybersecurity is imperative to organisational change

For non IT professionals, this course explores and explains the roles of people in the cyber security field and how they interact and perform to broaden understanding of the value they bring and risks they face and present.

This course has a four-week teaching period requiring a total of approximately 40 hours of learning. All course learning materials are available on demand.

About the course

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you'll be able to:

Critically analyse, reflect on and synthesise complex issues related to the role that people play in cybersecurity
Define key terminology related to cybersecurity

What topics will you cover?

Introduction to cybersecurity
People in cybersecurity
Introduction to cyber attack techniques

Assessment

To be eligible for a digital badge for this course, you will need to successfully complete an assessment which includes:

A written exposition of a human actor in the cyber security field
The optional assessment is due at the beginning of week 7

University level expertise

Scott Sorley is Executive Director of ICT Services at the University of Southern Queensland. Scott is responsible for enterprise wide planning, coordination and delivery of USQ information and communications systems. Scott developed the Human Factors in Cyber Security course in June 2019 and has been teaching this course to postgraduate students since that time. He has a particular interest in enabling Higher Education and its mission to improve people’s lives and create value for society. Scott has a diverse IT background from developing web applications, building distributed database systems, designing networks and managing large IT teams.

Course Credit

Unspecified Credit

This Microcredential represents 0.25 units towards 1.0 unit of credit.

The Microcredential can be taken as a stand-alone course. Additionally, it can be combined with other Microcredentials offered by UniSQ to achieve a total of 1.0 unit of credit. Partial credit cannot be awarded. To be eligible for credit you must successfully complete a stack of UniSQ Microcredentials that, when combined, equal 1.0 unit of credit.

The combined stack of Microcredentials can be used to apply for unspecified credit towards a program, provided the program rules allow it. To apply credit, you must first meet all of the program admission requirements and there must be elective space within the program and approval from the Program Director.

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Understanding The Human Cyber Threat

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Digital Badges

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