This cybersecurity awareness course provides a structured introduction to the evolving threat landscape and the factors that shape modern cyber risks. Participants explore key threat actors, attack vectors, and common cyberattack techniques, including phishing, ransomware, data breaches, and social engineering.

The course also examines how cyber incidents impact organizations financially, reputationally, physically, and legally, while highlighting practical mitigation actions such as malware detection, monitoring, policy development, and risk assessment. The aim is to strengthen awareness and support informed, responsible cybersecurity behaviour across organizational environments.

Upon the completion of this session, participants will be able to:

• Describe the cybersecurity threat landscape and its evolution.
• Identify key threat actors, attack vectors, and common cyberattack techniques.
• Recognise how social engineering exploits human behaviour.
• Explain the potential financial, reputational, physical, and legal impacts of cyber incidents.
• Understand the stages of cyberattacks through the Cyber Kill Chain model.
• Identify basic mitigation actions, including detection, monitoring, policy implementation, and risk assessment practices.

The session is designed for all learners, regardless of their prior knowledge or experience in the subject matter.

This course is designed for employees and professionals working with digital systems and data across both public and private sectors, including administrative, technical, and operational staff exposed to cyber risks.

It is also suitable for anyone interested in building foundational cybersecurity awareness and understanding cyber threats and mitigation practices.

Christiana Kyriacou, Privacy & Data Protection, PwC Cyprus Consulting

Georgios Chrysanthou, GRC, PwC Cyprus Consulting