(CEBFP) CYBERSECURITY ESSENTIALS FOR BUSINESS AND FINANCE PROFESSIONALS-P200817WPR

(CEBFP) CYBERSECURITY ESSENTIALS FOR BUSINESS AND FINANCE PROFESSIONALS-P200817WPR

Funded

Course Duration

7.0 hr(s)

Mode of Assessment

Learner will be required to complete a paper-based/online assessment towards the end of the class.

Who Should Attend

  • Employees and managers who want to protect themselves and their organizations from cyber-attacks.
  • Individuals who would like to upskill their knowledge of cybersecurity best practices

What's In It for Me

  • Get familiar with cyber threats and counter defense tools
  • Learn how to keep your accounts and credentials safe
  • Understand how to avoid common, yet dangerous threats and malicious scams which target individuals and organizations

Course Overview

Introducing the Cybersecurity Essentials for Business and Finance Professionals (CEBFP) Workshop, a 1-Day live virtual training program designed to tackle human error by providing your employees with advanced understanding and skills to protect themselves and your organization against the most common cyber threats.

Next available schedule

Course Objectives

  • Understand what cybersecurity is and why is it important for individuals and organizations
  • Learn best practices to protect accounts and credentials in an organization
  • Learn how to avoid hardware and mobile attacks
  • Learn how to surf securely in the web via Wi-Fi networks when working remotely
  • Understand the different kinds of social engineering attacks and how to avoid them
  • Explain cybersecurity best practices to customers and/or stakeholders
  • Identify relevant channels in the organization to report and initiate corrective actions
  • Get special guidance and techniques on how to stay safe and secure in financial institutions and organizations

Pre-requisites

Basic understanding in computers and the internet.

(A) Hardware & Software

  • Operating System: Please refer to this link
  • Virtual Live Classes – Web camera must be turn on 100% of the time.

(B) Courseware and Labs

  • Course Material: Provided on canvas
  • Online Labs: N.A.

(C) Assessment

  • Assessment will be conducted on Canvas
  • Candidates who fail, there is a reassessment fee of $214

Course Outline

Module 1 – Introduction to Cybersecurity

Learning Objectives:

  • Get to know the cybersecurity landscape from ethical hackers to dark markets
  • Understand an entire cyber-attack chain
  • Describe the main principles of cybersecurity and understand relevancy to personal, professional, and organizational levels
  • Classify and give examples of types of cybercrimes, of cybercriminals and their motivations

Demos:

  • Live Cyber Threat Map: A cyber threat map, also known as a cyber-attack map, is a real-time map of the computer security attacks that are occurring at any given time
  • Finding Leaked Organization Credentials: Demonstration on how easy it is to identify credentials which have been leaked from organizations, using an example of a Singaporean financial institution
  • Dark Web Markets: Learners will experience a walkthrough of dark web markets to understand how hackers sell the data they steal

Module 2 – Protecting Credentials in an Organization

Learning Objectives:

  • How hackers can acquire your passwords
  • How to protect yourself against such attacks
  • How to tell if your accounts have been compromised, including email and social media
  • Best practices to protect personal, financial, and professional accounts
  • Tools to test, create and manage strong passwords

Demos:

  • Leaked Passwords: Presentation on how to create strong passwords, showing statistics on the most common and overused weak passwords and patterns
  • One Account to All Accounts: How to check where your credentials are being used, and how this tool can be exploited by hackers
  • How Secure Is My Password? How to evaluate the strength of personal and professional credentials

Module 3 – Securing IoT Devices

Learning Objectives:

  • Best practices for protecting IoT devices including webcams, printers, and wearable devices
  • How to defend mobile devices from cyber threats
  • How to protect workplace environments from remote take-over attacks

Demo:

  • IoT Hacking: Demonstrating how easy it is to find sensitive information online which allows hackers to infiltrate printers, routers, or webcams

Module 4 – Remote Security: Wi-Fi + VPN

Learning Objectives:

  • How to safely browse using public Wi-Fi networks
  • Best practices for working remotely
  • How to secure your own Wi-Fi network
  • How and when to use a VPN for both private and professional use

Module 5 – The Human Element of Cyber-Attacks

Learning Objectives:

  • How hackers take advantage of the human element to infiltrate organizations and financial institutions
  • Types of social engineering including phishing, vishing, pretexting and clickjacking
  • How to defend against different types of social engineering attacks

Demos:

  • Identifying Phishing Emails: Participants will learn how to identify malicious social engineering attempts
  • Vishing Detection: Participants are shown various professional and personal situations and taught how to detect vishing efforts

Certificate Obtained and Conferred by

Learner may take an online assessment offered by and NTUC LearningHub, and upon passing the exam will receive a Cybersecurity Essentials for Business and Finance Professionals (CEBFP)

Additional Details

Medium of Instruction & Trainer
Medium of Instruction: English
Trainer: Trainee Ratio is 1:25
Mode of Delivery: Virtual Live Class (VLC) via Zoom

As this is a government subsidised programme, the entire training programme will be video recorded for audit purposes by the relevant funding agency. To ascertain their presence, Trainees / Participants are required to

  • Turn on web camera to show real-time video, as opposed to using a profile picture / video for the entirety of the training and assessment session.
  • Ensure that their faces are fully visible (not just the forehead / eyebrows)
  • Use their full name as per NRIC / Passport as their Screen Name on Zoom

Courseware & Labs

A softcopy of the learners guide will be provided on canvas. No Lab required for this course.

 

Price:

Course Fee and Government Subsidies

 

Individual Sponsored Trainee

Company Sponsored Trainee

 

Before GST

With GST

Before GST

With GST

Full Course Fee
(For Foreigners and those not eligible for subsidies)

$800.00

$872.00

$800.00

$872.00

For Singapore Citizens aged 39 years
and below
and
For all Singapore Permanent Residents (The minimum age for self-sponsored trainees is 21 years)

$400.00

$472.00

$400.00

$472.00

For Singapore Citizens aged 40 years and above

$240.00

$312.00

$240.00

$312.00

*With effect from 3rd October 2022:

  • Funding for courses under the Critical Core skills and Future-Enabled skills categories will only be available to Singapore Citizens and Singapore Permanent Residents employed in the financial sector (i.e., by financial institutions or SFA certified FinTech firms)
  • GST funding support will no longer be applicable for all courses

 

Funding Eligibility Criteria

Individual Sponsored Trainee

Company Sponsored Trainee

  • Singapore Citizens or Singapore Permanent Residents physically based in Singapore
  • Trainee must achieve 100% attendance and pass all relevant assessments
  • NTUC LearningHub reserves the right to claw back the funded amount from trainee if he/she did not fulfil the eligibility criteria
  • From 3rd October 2022, funding for courses under the Critical Core skills and Future-Enabled skills categories will only be available to Singapore Citizens and Singapore Permanent Residents employed in the financial sector (i.e., by financial institutions or SFA certified FinTech firms).
  • Singapore Citizens or Singapore Permanent Residents physically based in Singapore
  • Trainee must achieve 100% attendance and pass all relevant assessments
  • Sponsoring company must be
    • Singapore-based financial Institutions regulated by MAS (licensed or exempt from licensing by MAS)
    • FinTech firms certified by Singapore FinTech Association (SFA)
  • NTUC LearningHub reserves the right to claw back the funded amount from the employer if trainee did not fulfil the eligibility criteria
  • Eligible company-sponsored trainees will be able to clock CPD hours upon successful course completion

 

Remarks

Union Training Assistance Programme (UTAP)
NTUC
membersenjoyUTAP* benefitofupto$250eachyearwhenyousignupfor courses withNTUCLearningHub 

*UTAPsupports50%ofthecoursefeespaidcapat$250peryear. You must be a union member throughout the course duration and at the time of claim. You must achieve a minimum of 75% attendance for each application and have sat for all prescribed examinations. Other terms and conditions apply. 

Terms & Conditions apply. NTUC LearningHub reserve the right to make changes or improvements to any of the products described in this document without prior notice.

Prices are subject to other LHUB miscellaneous fees.

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