About our course

Our online course Cyber Risk in Financial Services contains essential cyber risk education in language participants can understand.

The course is suitable for all employees in a financial services practice, and provides up-to-the-minute education about cyber risk and email fraud. The course appeals to all participants by avoiding jargon while incorporating relatable scenarios through a thoughtful, logical structure. 

Course duration: 60 minutes (approx)

Our standard T&Cs provide access for 28 days providing ample time to complete the course.

What you will learn

Our unique and up-to-the-minute course focuses on professional duties using real-life case studies impacting financial services practices and other businesses. You'll learn that:

  • Managing cyber risk is a professional issue

  • Why cyber risk is everyone’s responsibility in a financial services practice

  • How cyber events and human error occur

  • Practical steps to protect yourself, your practice and your clients

Course structure

  • Our interactive course is divided into ten concise chapters that you can work through at your own pace.

  • It contains 60 minutes of video content, broken into shorter videos of around five minutes each.

  • There are four short quizzes to reinforce learnings as you progress through the course.

  • Participants must pass all the quizzes to receive a certificate of completion.

What our participants are saying:

  • “Our Management invited all staff from every department to take part in this online course and I believe this would also be valuable to the wider community.”

  • “I found the real-life examples very valuable. I had no idea how big an industry this was. It has prompted me to do several checks on my own tech tonight!”

  • "Excellent structure. Useful information. Beneficial for all practitioners, regardless of how tech saavy they are."

Your instructor

Simone Herbert-Lowe, Director

Simone is the legal practitioner director of Law & Cyber which provides risk management education about cyber events and email fraud and which also provides legal advice to businesses impacted by cyber events. She has 30 years of experience as a lawyer including 20 years managing legal claims against professionals. She is the author of numerous articles on professional responsibility, particularly in relation to cyber risk, and she has given written expert opinion in legal proceedings involving allegations of email-enabled fraud. In 2022 Simone was named Innovator of the Year (Individual) at the Lawyers' Weekly Women in Law Awards. She is passionate about protecting Australians from cyber-crime and helping businesses to build a cyber-aware culture.
Learn more about Simone here

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Chapter 01: Welcome

    • Using the course player

    • Introduction: Cyber Risk in Financial Services
  • 2

    Chapter 02: Cybercrime impacting businesses today

    • Why your practice is at risk
  • 3

    Chapter 03: Impersonation fraud

    • Impersonation fraud

    • Check in
  • 4

    Chapter 04: Phishing

    • Phishing - Introduction

    • How to recognise phishing emails

    • Check in

  • 5

    Chapter 05: Breached passwords and weak log-in credentials

    • Securing your log-in credentials

    • Check in
  • 6

    Chapter 06: Use of email to compromise other accounts

    • How email can be used to hack other platforms
  • 7

    Chapter 07: Data theft, identity fraud and the dark web

    • Data theft and identity fraud

    • Identity fraud and the dark web
  • 8

    Chapter 08: Malicious software including ransomware

    • Malicious software including ransomware

    • Can you spot a phishing message? Take this short quiz on the ACSC website (Optional content)
  • 9

    Chapter 09: Human error

    • Human error and data breaches

    • Check in

  • 10

    Chapter 10: Summary & Addtional Resources

    • Video summary

    • One minute survey - help us provide the education that financial services need
  • 11

    About L & C

    • Author and Presenter

    • Our Education Portfolio
  • 12

    Legals

    • Copyright notice

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