This micro-credential covers the importance of safeguarding your individual data as well as using data within an organisational environment - understanding the risks, how data is used and what you need to know to ensure data security is not compromised.

The Digital Security Essentials micro-credential is designed to develop awareness around the importance and responsibilities of preventing data breaches, and protecting personally identifiable information, and sensitive confidential data. Since over 90% of all data in existence was created in the last five years, the importance of ensuring data is secure is essential to personal and organisational risk management.

During this course you will learn:
• What is data security
• The importance of data security.
• How to maintain data security.

Learning Outcomes:

• Ability to understand data security
• Knowledge of the importance of data security
• How to identify data loss and data loss prevention
• Knowledge of data security responsibilities.

The data security essentials course explains the key components of data security, its importance and how data should be maintained. This course identifies common types of incidents, data security versus cyber security and an understanding of how breaches can happen. The data security essentials course details information on data loss and techniques for loss mitigation and prevention.

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