- Cyber Hygiene and Awareness
CHA201: Effective Cyber Hygiene and Awareness
Advance your cyber hygiene knowledge with practical skills for managing threats, vulnerabilities, and third-party risk.
- Intermediate
- In-person

Course at a glance
Advance your cyber hygiene capability
Building on the fundamentals, this intermediate course strengthens your understanding of cyber threats and how to manage them. Youโll explore the evolving threat landscape, develop effective protection and mitigation strategies, and learn how to apply monitoring, compliance, and risk assessment techniques in practice. The course also covers incident management, response, and continuity planning, giving you the skills to keep operations secure under pressure. By the end, youโll know how to use the right tools and approaches to maintain strong cyber hygiene across your organisation.
Whoโs this course for?
Suitable for micro and small businesses that want to strengthen their cyber resilience and build on foundational cyber hygiene knowledge.
Modules
Refresh essential cyber hygiene principles to ensure all participants have a solid base before moving to advanced topics.
- Fundamentals Refresher
- Maintaining Cyber Hygiene
Deepen your understanding of evolving cyber threats and how to identify, prioritise, and address vulnerabilities.
- Advanced Threat Landscape
- Delving into Malware
- Advisory, Vulnerability, and Patch Management
Learn how to align your security approach with recognised frameworks, meet compliance standards, and respond effectively to incidents.
- Cybersecurity Frameworks and Compliance
- Risk Management Essentials
- Incident Management, Response, and Continuity
Build the skills to assess, monitor, and improve cyber resilience across your supply chain and partner network.
- Third-Party Oversight: Monitoring, Compliance, and Risk Assessment
- Summary and Recap
Hands-on Training
Work through realistic scenarios to apply vulnerability management, compliance checks, and incident response strategies in a safe, controlled environment.



How will you learn?
Youโll take part in tutor-led sessions, group discussions, and hands-on activities designed to strengthen your ability to identify, mitigate, and manage cyber risks.
Prerequisites
A solid understanding of cyber hygiene fundamentals or completion of CHA102 Fundamentals of Cyber Hygiene & Awareness is recommended but not essential.
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Feedback from past attendees
- Training Courses
Working with Cyber Innovation Hub to deliver our Business Continuity and Cyber Threat Simulation Day was outstanding. Their facilitation encouraged โฏengagement from the team and created a safe space for honest reflection and learning. The scenarios tested our thinking and exposed areas for improvement, which led to tangible outcomes in refining our continuity plans and strengthening our overall resilience. Highly recommended for any organisations looking to test and or improve their Cyber security responses.

- Training Courses
โParticipating in the OT102: Foundations of OT Cybersecurity course, delivered by Cyber Innovation Hub, strengthened our understanding of OT risks and practices. The programme was relevant and expertly delivered, equipping staff with knowledge to safeguard infrastructure. We recommend this course to organisations seeking greater resilience.”

- Training Courses
โThe Cyber Innovation Hubโs Applied Foundations of OT Cybersecurity was a package that developed our understanding of OT and security control requirements. Well-paced and delivered, it gave us hands-on experience which consolidated learning. Iโm looking forward to future packages to build upon this foundation.โ

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