Cyber Security Project

The first Digital Skills assessment was titled Cyber Security Project. It involved creating a brochure on the subject of Cyber Security Hygiene. The full specification was as follows:

You have been tasked with creating a cyber security hygiene brochure. The brochure will have a target audience of employees working in a typical SME and should contain advice for general computer users. You should use software like Microsoft Publisher, Microsoft Word, or any other suitable software package. It can contain information that employees use to understand overall computer security, what a typical computer attack looks like, how these attacks happen and how to react to them.

Your brochure must include the following:

• Cover page with graphics (from a copy-right free source or created by yourself).
• An introduction to what Cyber Security Hygiene is.
• Should be a minimum of 2 A4 pages.

Some examples of what your brochure could include are the following suggestions:

• Safety tips for employees working remotely.
• An explanation of typical computer security.
• What tactics and psychology do threat actors use in their attack attempts (social engineering)?
• What are the ways for a user to detect a cyber-attack? You should also describe the common ways they happen.

You can use any number of the following attack types:

• Email account hack.
• Device compromise.
• Cloud storage hack.
• Ransomware infection.
• Social media account hack.
• Network intrusion.
• Financial account hack.
• Web browser compromise.
• Warning signs of phishing emails.
• What to do/not do in case of compromise with a company device.

Deliverables:

Cyber security brochure containing:

• The importance of data security.
• The threats to data security.
• Data security methods.

As usual, my first port of call was Google. I wanted to get a clear picture of what the layout and colour scheme should be, before I filled the pages with text.

I came across a cool looking template on designcrowd.com and others like here and here.

I designed a basic front and back cover first. I found some images on pixabay.com and converted them to greyscale using Photoshop because I wanted them to contrast with the colour of the design, like in the templates.

Once I had a vision of what I wanted to create, I then started researching the content.

Since the brochure is only required to be 2 A4 pages, it was a little restrictive in how much information I could include. I was really surprised how quickly the space filled up with list type format I decided on. I ended up concentrating on two of the suggestions: “Safety tips for employees working remotely” and “What are the ways for a user to detect a cyber-attack?”

Using Google, I browsed countless forums, tutorials and blogs to build a list of relevant information on each of the chosen topics.

With some chopping and changing, test printing and rewriting, I came up with version 1 of the brochure below.

After some feedback from Jenny, I added some images, changed the company logo and moved some things around. Version 2 is below.