# Cybersecurity Management

> Protect your organisation from cyber threats with a practical security programme covering people, process and technology.

- **Provider:** Afriskora Training Solutions
- **Category:** Data, AI & Digital Skills
- **Duration:** 5 days
- **Formats:** classroom (cities across Africa), live virtual (Zoom/Teams), in-house for teams
- **Certificate:** Afriskora Certificate of Completion, verifiable online
- **Booking:** request dates and a quote; invoice and EFT payment
- **Web page:** https://afriskora.co.za/courses/data-ai-digital/cybersecurity-management
- **Request dates:** https://afriskora.co.za/request-training?course=cybersecurity-management

## Overview

Ransomware, phishing and data breaches now affect organisations of every size across Africa. This course gives managers and IT leads a structured way to assess cyber risk, put the right controls in place, respond to incidents and meet POPIA and regulatory obligations. It uses recognised frameworks and real African incident case studies.

## Who should attend

- IT managers and security officers
- Risk, audit and compliance professionals
- Operations and business managers
- Public-sector ICT leads

## Learning outcomes

- Assess cyber threats and risks to your organisation
- Design a security programme based on recognised frameworks
- Implement key technical and administrative controls
- Lead incident response and recovery
- Meet POPIA breach and reporting obligations

## Course outline

### Day 1: The threat landscape

- Common attacks in Africa
- Threat actors and motives
- Ransomware and phishing
- Case studies

### Day 2: Risk and frameworks

- Cyber risk assessment
- NIST CSF and ISO 27001 overview
- Policies and standards
- Security metrics

### Day 3: Controls that matter

- Identity and access management
- Patching and hardening
- Backups and email security
- Cloud security basics

### Day 4: People and incidents

- Security awareness programmes
- Incident response planning
- Tabletop exercise
- Working with law enforcement

### Day 5: Compliance and governance

- POPIA security safeguards
- Breach notification
- Reporting to the board
- Your security roadmap