With so much important information now held in digital form, information security has become an issue that no organisation can afford to ignore. And the scale of the threat really can't be overstated: in a recent survey, more than 90% of organisations said that they'd suffered some form of information security incident in the previous year!
This is where our Information Security Essentials online training course can help. It's been designed to provide your staff with an understanding of the main threats to information security and the practical things they can do to counter them. Using the course, you can help to ensure everyone in your organisation knows how to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the information they work with.
Information Security Essentials is made up of four bite-sized sections:
What is information security?
Explores the scale of the threat and the three core principles of information security: confidentiality, integrity and availability.
Understanding the threats
Looks at the three main forms of threat to information security: physical, electronic and social engineering.
Protecting information
Runs through the practical things staff can do to counter the threats and comply with IT security policies.
Test your knowledge
Comprehensive mastery test to verify each user's knowledge and understanding of the contents of the course.
