This NZISM fundamentals course highlights the most significant areas of the NZ Information Security Manual. In particular, this course emphasizes the fundamental requirements from the first 5 chapters of the NZISM that includes reporting requirements, risk management and the key roles required to meet the needs of the NZISM. In addition, the second half of the course delves into more detail about the most common area of the NZISM that organization struggle to match including cryptography requirements, documentation, the system auditing process and organizational security. Dr Eldridge will also compare the NZISM requirements with international standards (such as ISO27002), and discuss prioritizing different controls to improve an organisation's security posture....

The cybersecurity incident response course is intended for those wishing to develop or critique their incident response processes. The course covers the basics of incident responses processes, risk and documentation, including alignment with both the NZISM and other international security standards in order to achieve best practice. It includes discussion of a number of incident response templates and how to critique of existing incident responses processes. This course has been updated to more accurately reflect the incident response landscape as of 2021....