Cybersecurity Risk Management Across Critical Systems

Cybersecurity affects everyone, including in the delivery of basic products and services. If you or your organization want to better understand how to optimize your cybersecurity risk management, this is the course for you and your colleagues to take -- from seasoned professionals to your non-technical colleagues. Your instructor, Dr. Charles Harry, has served on the front lines with the NSA (National Security Agency) and as an expert advising corporate and institutional leaders on managing cybersecurity risk. And he brings a rare and engaging perspective to help you learn cybersecurity from the ground up. Cybersecurity Risk Management Across Critical Systems lays the groundwork to understand and explore the key issues facing practitioners and policy makers attempting to manage the problem of cybersecurity, from its technical foundations to the domestic and international policy considerations surrounding governance, privacy, and risk management for the resiliency of critical systems, to applications for achieving the goals of an enterprise, an institution, or a nation. This course is designed for students with some or no background in information technology, whether a novice or active in the cybersecurity field (engineers and computer scientists will learn the broader context and business aspects of cybersecurity), and will provide the principles to understand the current debates shaping a rapidly evolving security landscape

• Understand how to optimize cybersecurity risk management in critical systems
• Conduct risk assessments and apply threat modeling
• Develop security policies based on best practices
• Enhance skills in information and privacy protection
• Identify challenges faced by cybersecurity practitioners

• Basic computer and internet skills
• Ability to read course instructions in English and complete short practice activities