This course provides an understanding for the insider threat, and how it can be detected and mitigated is a critical objective to reduce cyber risk and a vital control for organisations. Students will learn about what insider cyber threats are, how to detect them, and how to mitigate against them.

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.

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

• Analyse information, concepts and theories related to human roles in insider threats
• Analyse and apply specialist knowledge related to managing human factors and behaviour to counter insider cyber threats
• Analyse, evaluate and apply sources of specialist human behavioural knowledge relating to cyber security knowledge, and how these can be applied towards improved cyber security controls

• Introduction to Cyber Threats
• Supply Chain Attacks
• Detection
• Human Centric Controls for Managing Insider Threats

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

• A written scenario response on an insider threat control strategy
• The optional assessment is due at the beginning of week 7