This Cybersecurity Fundamentals bundle covers several cybersecurity topics to help you gain an understanding of the importance and impact of cybersecurity risks on your organization or client.  

The bundle is made up of the following courses: 

• The Importance of Cybersecurity 
• Cybersecurity and Digital Transformation 
• Cyberattacks, Data Breaches, and Privacy 
• Cybersecurity Risk Management 
• The Business of Cybersecurity 

Why is cybersecurity important right now? 

More than ever, organizations are under pressure to demonstrate that they are managing threats, and that they have effective processes and controls in place to prevent, detect, respond to, mitigate and recover from cybersecurity events.  

Cyberattacks can: 

• Disrupt businesses 
• Result in financial losses 
• Destroy an organization's reputation 

What is your role? 

You must be able to: 

• Speak intelligently on the subject internally and externally. 
• Learn the terminology and key considerations related to cybersecurity to collaborate with others in your organization or client. 
• Apply a security mindset to your daily work. 
• Obtain an understanding of the potential risks and opportunities for your organization or client as they develop or evaluate their cybersecurity risk management program. 

By the end of this course, you will be able to:  

• Understand the importance of cybersecurity to you, the accounting and finance professional, and your organization or client. 
• Determine what it takes to develop a security mindset to be a trusted adviser and key contributor toward cybersecurity risk management. 
• Understand key cybersecurity terminology to enable you to converse and collaborate with other functional leaders, employees, and vendors. 
• Assess the impact of digital transformation on cybersecurity. 
• Evaluate Cybersecurity threats, attacks, data breach implications, and privacy considerations.