BSBXCS301 - Protect own personal online profile from cyber security threats

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Unit code: BSBXCS301 | Study level: TAFE
Credit points
N/A
Location
Sunshine
Prerequisites
N/A
Overview
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Overview

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to protect own personal online profile from cyber security threats, and to limit the potential impact of online security breaches. It applies to those working in a broad range of industries and job roles under some supervision and guidance, who protect their own online profile so that it is cyber secure.

Assessment

For Melbourne campuses

Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce & extend knowledge and skill competence within set & controlled parameters in accordance with each units learning outcomes & performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.

Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:
• conduct one audit of own personal online profile and identify existing and potential cyber security threats
• identify and address three potential cyber security risks to own personal online profile.

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:
• legislative requirements relating to reporting cyber security threats
• organisational policies and procedures relating to online profiles, including escalation routes for cyber security issues
• basic principles of cyber security, including:

  • importance of data confidentiality, integrity and availability
  • common cyber security terms
  • common cyber security threats that individuals might be exposed to online
  • secure internet browsing
    • risk factors relating to own personal online profile, including:
  • password management practices:
    o strength of created passwords
    o number of passwords used for multiple accounts
    o frequency of change to passwords
  • own work role within organisation
  • regular tasks in own work that raise personal risk level, including internet browsing
  • potential targets for cyber attack in own direct professional network
  • protocols for handling personally identifiable information
  • physical safety of devices
    • industry-specific risk factors and their risk to online profiles
    • common strategies, tools and techniques for improving security of own personal online profile, including for:
  • password protection
  • secure password management and account replicating and splitting
  • fundamentals of two-factor authentication
  • billing and account privacy settings
  • software patching
  • connecting to public Wi-Fi via virtual private networks (VPNs)
    • common methods and practices for:
  • responding to cyber security issues, including reporting protocols
  • secure internet browsing, including banking and email
    • common cyber security threats that individuals and data might be exposed to, including:
  • phishing
  • social engineering
  • social media
  • malware
  • physical threats, including data loss due to working insecurely in public spaces.

Required reading

The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by the VU Polytechnic and/or via the VU Polytechnic e-learning system.

As part of a course

This unit is studied as part of the following course(s):

Certificate III in Enabling Technologies
22588VIC | Certificate iii | Duration:

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