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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Identify existing and potential security threats to own personal online profile
   • Determine all current online accounts and profiles
   • Identify common threats to security of online profiles
   • Identify industry-specific risk factors that raise risk levels to own personal profile
2. Audit own personal online profile for identified security threats
   • Review all online accounts, associated applications and browsers at risk of identified threats according to organisational policies and procedures
   • Review public online profiles that can be linked to own personal identity
   • Check billing and account records carefully to detect early indicators of potential theft
   • Report identified suspicious cyber activity according to cyber security legislative requirements and organisational policies and procedures
3. Address identified existing and potential security threats to own personal online profile
   • Secure personal online profile and remove potential security risks
   • Confirm that software used on own desktop/laptop and mobile devices is current and sufficient
   • Remove potentially sensitive personal and company information according to organisational policies and procedures
   • Create strong passwords across personal and work accounts
   • Turn on two factor authentication across all accounts where available
   • Adjust privacy/security settings on internet browser, web applications and applicable online accounts
   • Delete all unused online accounts/applications according to organisational policies and procedures

Performance Evidence

The candidate must demonstrate the ability to complete the tasks outlined in the elements, performance criteria and foundation skills of this unit, including evidence of the ability to:

conduct one audit of own personal online profile and identify existing and potential cyber security threats

identify and address three potential cyber security risks to own personal online profile.

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Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must be able to demonstrate knowledge to complete the tasks outlined in the elements, performance criteria and foundation skills of this unit, including knowledge of:

legislative requirements relating to reporting cyber security threats

organisational policies and procedures relating to online profiles, including escalation routes for cyber security issues

basic principles of cyber security, including:

importance of data confidentiality, integrity and availability

common cyber security terms

common cyber security threats that individuals might be exposed to online

secure internet browsing

risk factors relating to own personal online profile, including:

password management practices:

strength of created passwords

number of passwords used for multiple accounts

frequency of change to passwords

own work role within organisation

regular tasks in own work that raise personal risk level, including internet browsing

potential targets for cyber attack in own direct professional network

protocols for handling personally identifiable information

physical safety of devices

industry-specific risk factors and their risk to online profiles

common strategies, tools and techniques for improving security of own personal online profile, including for:

password protection

secure password management and account replicating and splitting

fundamentals of two-factor authentication

billing and account privacy settings

software patching

connecting to public Wi-Fi via virtual private networks (VPNs)

common methods and practices for:

responding to cyber security issues, including reporting protocols

secure internet browsing, including banking and email

common cyber security threats that individuals and data might be exposed to, including:

phishing

social engineering

social media

malware

physical threats, including data loss due to working insecurely in public spaces.

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