Risk Analysis, Policy Compliance and elements of GDPR

Responsible for cybersecurity in your small/medium business?

Want to match the security levels of large firms – without the costs?

Worried about complying with regulations?

Or would you just like to know more about cybersecurity risk analysis?

This course will introduce to the theory of cyber security risk analysis and give you a chance to practice identifying threats and misbehaviours, complying with policies, and introducing control strategies using the bespoke Security System Modeller tool (SSM).

This course and the SSM tool are the outputs of a Data Market Services project funded as part of the Horizon 2020 European Commission research programme.

Course Information

Estimated Time: 8 hours

Difficulty: Beginner

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Course Instructor

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Welcome to the course

Course Overview
User guide

The Basics of Cybersecurity Risk Analysis

Overview of section 2
Why does cyber security matter?
What is a cyber environment?
Modelling a cyber environment
What is Risk?
What is Likelihood?
What is Trustworthiness?
What is Impact?
Check Your Learning
Strategies for addressing risk
Security by design
What is policy compliance?
OWASP / CVE threats
Summary of Learning

Risk Analysis Theory

Overview  of Section 3
The importance of a knowledge base
The importance of a domain model
The science of threat modelling
The science of security control modelling
The mathematics of impact and likelihood
The principles of risk ownership
Summary of learning

Regulatory Compliance as Risk Analysis

Overview of Section 4
Regulatory compliance
Overview of security standards and governance
Overview of ISO 27005
Overview of GDPR 
Relationships across standards
Compliance as a threat
Summary of learning

Trust, Trustworthiness and Humans in the Network

Overview of Section 5
Humans as a threat
Trust as a result of threat analysis
Public vs Private information
Social Engineering
Improving User Trustworthiness
Summary of learning

The SSM tool – identifying and controlling threats and misbehaviours

Introduction to SSM
What is SSM?
How does SSM work?
Level Settings in SSM
Task 1 – identifying threats and implementing controls

Task 2 – GDPR in SSM

Introduction
The relevant elements of GDPR
Breaching GDPR
GDPR across the European Union
Task 2 – GDPR in SSM 

The Factory of the Future – a use case

Introduction
Risk analysis in Factory of the Future scenarios
A Factory of the Future use case
Task 3 – risk analysis in a Factory of the Future 

Summary of learning

This section does not have any lessons.

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