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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Contribute to reviewing workplace cyber security threats
   • Identify relevant organisational data security/protection policies and procedures
   • Contribute to organisation-wide cyber security audits
   • Contribute to identifying threats to workplace security of cyber security threats
2. Assist in assessing risks and potential business impact of cyber security threats
   • Assist in assessing cyber security risks and their likelihood, consequences and suggested mitigation strategies
   • Assist in reviewing industry level threats and best practice cyber security strategies
   • Assign risk levels for identified cyber risks based on measurement scale
   • Contribute to identifying impact of risks
3. Finalise cyber security threat assessment
   • Document impact findings that include recommendations for required responses to control risks
   • Support the communication of cyber security threat assessment outcomes and recommendations to required personnel
   • Seek feedback as required on assessment findings
   • Assist in integrating feedback to finalise threat assessment
   • Distribute or store final threat assessment 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:

provide non-technical support to a cyber security threat assessment in a work area by describing three threats

communicate and distribute findings of the identified threats.

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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 contributing to cyber security threat assessments, including:

data protection

implications of Notifiable Data Breach legislation on an organisation and other associated Australian privacy laws

established international legislation

potential organisational impact of cyber attacks

online risks affecting organisation’s operations

common procedures for cyber threat rating and modelling

strategies, techniques and tools that improve an organisation’s cyber security and audit processes

organisational policies and procedures for information security, including:

confidentiality, integrity, and availability

communicating threat assessment findings.

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