Course description
Assess the need for security management in organisations, distinguishing the main threats to information systems and identifying the main security tools and how to apply them in each case.
Why enrol on this course?
Who can take this course?
Employed, self-employed or unemployed people who want to improve their skills.
Free course
Subsidised training, at no cost to the student.
Online course
Study from home with a flexible format.
Certified course
When you finish you will be able to certify the training you have completed.
Course content
Knowledge / Cognitive and practical skills
• Introduction to information systems security:
• Understanding security concepts in systems:
- Classification of security measures.
- Knowledge of security requirements in information systems.
- Identifying the main characteristics.
- Confidentiality.
- Integrity management.
- Understanding availability.
- Identifying other characteristics.
- Identifying types of attacks.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity for users:
- Understanding the concept of cybersecurity.
- Identifying the most common threats to information systems.
- Using the most common security technologies.
- IT security management.
• Identifying malicious software:
- Understanding malicious software concepts.
- Classification of malicious software.
- Identifying advanced persistent threats.
- Preventing social engineering and social media threats.
• Security management in wireless networks.
• Applying security tools:
- Applying protection measures.
- Controlling user access to the operating system.
- Managing user permissions.
- Managing user accounts.
- User authentication.
- Secure management of communications, folders and other shared resources.
- Managing shared network folders.
- Identifying types of access to shared folders.
- Procedure for sharing printers.
- Protection against malicious code.
- Antivirus configuration.
- Firewall configuration.
- Using anti-malware.
Management, personal and social skills
• Identifying cyber threats and ways to promote cybersecurity in e-commerce.
• Good practices to improve customer trust.
• Responding to a security incident.
• Introduction to information systems security:
• Understanding security concepts in systems:
- Classification of security measures.
- Knowledge of security requirements in information systems.
- Identifying the main characteristics.
- Confidentiality.
- Integrity management.
- Understanding availability.
- Identifying other characteristics.
- Identifying types of attacks.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity for users:
- Understanding the concept of cybersecurity.
- Identifying the most common threats to information systems.
- Using the most common security technologies.
- IT security management.
• Identifying malicious software:
- Understanding malicious software concepts.
- Classification of malicious software.
- Identifying advanced persistent threats.
- Preventing social engineering and social media threats.
• Security management in wireless networks.
• Applying security tools:
- Applying protection measures.
- Controlling user access to the operating system.
- Managing user permissions.
- Managing user accounts.
- User authentication.
- Secure management of communications, folders and other shared resources.
- Managing shared network folders.
- Identifying types of access to shared folders.
- Procedure for sharing printers.
- Protection against malicious code.
- Antivirus configuration.
- Firewall configuration.
- Using anti-malware.
Management, personal and social skills
• Identifying cyber threats and ways to promote cybersecurity in e-commerce.
• Good practices to improve customer trust.
• Responding to a security incident.