CAS Cyber Risk Awareness

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Semester: Spring Semester 2025
Target Group: Security & Privacy Awareness Staff in Organizations
ECTS: 12

Organizations are increasingly threatened by cyber risks that can have serious economic and human consequences. Understanding the human factor is becoming increasingly important in protecting against cyber-attacks. A “wrong click” on a malicious email attachment can lead to business failure, loss of personal data and reputational damage. Raising the awareness of management, specialist departments (e.g. IT) and employees is therefore becoming an increasingly important complement to technical and organizational measures in practice and is explicitly expected (e.g. in audits, for cyber insurance).

The CAS Cyber Risk Awareness enables managers and external consultants to

• Sensitize management, specialist departments (e.g. IT) and employees to the issues of information security and data protection.
• Develop, implement and evaluate targeted measures to promote secure behavior.

The course uses established concepts from psychology (especially behavior change), communication and IT. These are complemented by practical know-how.