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Cybersecurity Awareness and Innovation (Coursera)

Offered by EIT Digital,
Cybersecurity Awareness and Innovation (Coursera)

It’s not you, it’s me! What’s going on? This course empowers students, professionals and wider community to deal with cybersecurity attacks and risks focused on identity management and it is an introduction to the upcoming full course focused on cybersecurity awareness. It is provided a practical overview of challenging issues like identity credentials management and security, e-mail threats and web impersonation, or web hacking.

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In addition to this, you will have a practical appreciation to innovation applied to these concepts through an interview with a renowned expert in fraud and cybercrime. Teaching staff consists of Iván Pau, UPM researcher and expert in usable security, and Román Ramírez, hacker and cybersecurity expert.
Learning will be carried out by introducing use cases related with cybersecurity incidents, in a way which ensures that participants get really involved in the course. You will easily acquire practical skills and be ready to face real threats in a digital world.
This course is part of an online programme developed by Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (world class tech university renowned for the quality of its education programmes and the research undertaken at its centres), Ferrovial (world's leading private investor in cities and infrastructures, with a workforce of more than 74.000 employees and operations in more than 16 countries) and EIT Digital.

What You Will Learn

  • Cibersecurity awareness mainly focused on identity management
  • Understanding of effective protection mechanisms against common threats related with Identity
  • Capacity to devise disruptive ideas related with identity protection

Syllabus

WEEK 1
Identity and Authentication
What is digital identity? What are credentials? Why are credentials so important?

WEEK 2
Identity and social attacks
What are the main threats related with passwords? What are the best practices in password creation and management?

WEEK 3
Protection basics for information and IT devices
How web hacking works, new trends and innovation.

WEEK 4
The modern world: mobility and clouds

WEEK 5
Cybersecurity Today and Challenges

WEEK 6
Innovation & Entrepreneurship

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