Managing Cybersecurity and Risks

Part of the ModularMaster Certificate in Technology and Management

As our world becomes increasingly digitised, digital security grows more crucial than ever. While advances in technology present new opportunities for us to live, work, and play, they also make us more vulnerable to cybersecurity risks. What if our everyday digital services cease to function, or if our data is no longer secure?

Because technological innovation is a double-edged sword, it’s important to build a company’s digital security, starting at the strategic level, producing a relatively abstract vision that is molded at the operational level into proscribed operating instructions: a security and enablement plan.

This course provides a comprehensive understanding into today's digital security environment, and how we can apply the knowledge to minimise risk, leverage opportunities, and implement solutions to best manage cybersecurity and risks.

Who Should Attend

This course is for business leaders, senior executives and entrepreneurs, and IT professionals responsible for leveraging the possibilities created by digitalisation and building innovation powerhouses within their companies.

We recommend the course for change managers, core strategy team members, business managers, product development managers, and IT professionals. The course is suited to key functions like marketing, operations, IT, strategy, and general management.

Programme Outline

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, participants can expect to:

Understand the reality of the current digital world, including threats, opportunities, and solutions
Articulate threat model and create a comprehensive security preparedness model
Understand the trends of cybersecurity
Utilise the tools learnt to address real-world business challenges

Day 1

Introduction to the module and faculty, programme flow and pre-assignments
Project instructions, project briefing and assignment of groups
Identification of personal learning goals of the current module set by oneself
Understand the current trends and the near future of digital security
Understand digital security risks and opportunities
Group work

Day 2

Introduction to the methods of digital security
Learn to use preparedness model
Developing digital security practice
Hands-on exercise

Day 3

Cybersecurity controls and threat management
Cybersecurity standards and best practices
Singapore cybersecurity laws and regulations
Trustworthy system access and control
Enterprise cybersecurity - architectural basis

Day 4

Trustworthy system access and control
Enterprise cybersecurity - architectural basis
Enterprise cybersecurity - protocols and technologies (secure web and sockets, HTTPS, SSL/TLS, VPN, IPsec, etc)

Day 5

Project presentation

Assessment

Multiple methods of assessment are used to provide an opportunity for the participants to demonstrate their learning results with a variety of learning styles.

These include:

Pre-assignment due before in-class session
Class contribution
In-class assignments (group work and presentations during the module)
Take-home assignment due after in-class session

Subject Credits

Upon completion and satisfying the requirements of passing this course, learners will be awarded 12 subject credits.

Course Fees and Funding

Full course fee inclusive of prevailing GST	You pay S$6,758.00
SkillsFuture Course Fee subsidy (70%) For Singapore Citizens < 40 years old For Permanent Residents	You pay S$2,027.40
Mid-Career Enhanced Subsidy (90%) For Singapore Citizens ≥ 40 years old	You pay S$787.40
Enhanced Training Support for SMEs (90%) For SME - Sponsored employees	You pay S$787.40

The above module fee payable is inclusive of 9% GST.

Instructors

Prof David Yau
Professor, ISTD
SUTD

David Yau obtained the B.Sc. (first class honors) from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), and M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, all in computer science. He is now Professor in the Information Systems Technology and Design pillar of the Singapore University of Technology and Design. Since 2010, he has been Distinguished Scientist at the Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore, where he is Cybersecurity Program Director.

He is also Qiushi Chaired Professor in the Department of Control, Zhejiang University, China. From 1997 to 2013 (on leave 2010-12), he was Assistant Professor then Associate Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University (West Lafayette). In 2004, he was on sabbatical leave as Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, CUHK..

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Hadi Ghanbari
Assistant Professor, Aalto University School of Business

Hadi Ghanbari is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems at Aalto University School of Business (Finland). Simultaneously, he is a research fellow of the FinEst Centre for Smart Cities (Estonia). Before joining Aalto University in 2019, he was a member of the Information Security Management research group at the University of Jyväskylä (Finland). He has been a project manager in several pan-European cybersecurity research and innovation projects. He had also served as a visiting researcher at the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software (Ireland) and the Software Centre (Sweden). Before joining academia in 2010, he had worked in several positions in the IT industry.

Hadi mostly conducts empirical research on sociotechnical aspects of digital innovation, with a focus on information security, Technical Debt, and stakeholders' competencies and behaviour. More recently, he has been studying the role of urban analytics in developing sustainable and resilient digital services. He is especially interested in studying the security and privacy concerns and consequences of such digital innovations for smart city stakeholders.

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Types of Funding

Funding under Mid-Career Enhanced Subsidy ("MCES")

MCES is an enhanced Subsidy to encourage mid-career individuals to upskill and reskill, thereby helping them to remain competitive and resilient in the job market. With this, all Singaporeans aged 40 and above will receive higher subsidies of up to 90% course fee subsidy for SSG-funded certifiable courses.
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For more info, please visit SkillsFuture website at https://www.skillsfuture.gov.sg/enhancedsubsidy

Funding under Enhanced Training Support for SMEs ("ETSS")

ETSS is an enhanced funding to enable SMEs to send their employees for training.
SMEs will enjoy subsidies of up to 90% of the course fees when they sponsor their employees for SSG-funded certifiable courses.
In addition to higher course fee funding, SMEs can also claim absentee payroll funding of 80% of basic hourly salary at a higher cap of $7.50 per hour. SMEs may apply for the absentee payroll via the SkillsConnect system.
To qualify, SMEs must meet all of the following criteria:
- Organisation must be registered or incorporated in Singapore
- Employment size of not more than 200 or with annual sales turnover of not more than $100 million
- Trainees must be hired in accordance with the Employment Act and fully sponsored by their employers for the course
- Trainees must be Singapore Citizens or Singapore Permanent Residents

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UTAP is a training benefit for NTUC members to defray their cost of training. This benefit is to encourage more union members to go for skills upgrading.

NTUC members enjoy 50% unfunded course fee support for up to $250 each year when you sign up for courses supported under UTAP (Union Training Assistance Programme).

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The Post-Secondary Education Account (PSEA) is part of the Post-Secondary Education Scheme to help pay for the post-secondary education of Singaporeans.

This is part of the Government’s efforts to encourage every Singaporean to complete their post-secondary education. It also underscores the Government’s commitment to support families in investing in the future education of their children and to prepare them for the economy of the future. PSEA is not a bank account.

It is administered by the Ministry of Education (MOE) and is opened automatically for all eligible Singaporeans.

Account holders can use their PSEA funds to pay for their own or their siblings’ approved fees and charges for approved programs conducted by approved institutions.

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