"Our lives depend on online services. Gain essential cyber security knowledge and skills, to help protect your digital life."
We shop, We work, We play online, that means We live online. As our lives increasingly depend on digital services, the need to protect our information from being maliciously disrupted or misused is really important. This needs security to prevent theft of equipment and information to protect the data on that equipment. It is referred to as "cyber security" or "IT security". The field also covers all the processes and mechanisms by which digital equipment, information and services are protected from unintended or unauthorized access.
