Cyber Security: Data Security and Information Privacy

• Watch our course introduction video before you enroll! (copy and paste into browser) https://vimeo.com/1176024308 Data Security and Information Privacy | Protect Identities. Preserve Trust. Power Compliance. This course helps compliance leaders, analysts, data scientists, and tech professionals secure data and ensure privacy by design. Developed by the Cyber Skills Academy at Macquarie University, this program offers hands-on methods and technologies to manage data security and privacy in real-world environments. You'll gain critical skills in: Identifying threats, risks, and vulnerabilities in information systems. Evaluating privacy risk using metrics and de-identification models (k-anonymity, l-diversity, t-closeness). Applying differential privacy techniques for provable privacy. Linking datasets securely with privacy-preserving record linkage. Using tools for data encryption, anonymisation, and secure sharing. Applying standards like ABS Five Safes and NIST Privacy Framework for compliance. This course empowers you to embed privacy as a core data strategy, reducing organizational risk and building trust. To succeed, learners should have a basic understanding of data concepts and digital environments

• Understand key risks to data security and privacy in digital environments
• Apply de-identification and anonymisation methods to protect sensitive data
• Navigate global privacy frameworks like GDPR and local legal obligations
• Implement controls to secure data across storage, access, and sharing systems

• No deep prior experience is required, but basic computer and internet skills are helpful
• Ability to read course instructions in English and complete short practice activities