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Week 4 additional resources

List of resources relating to Week 4 focus that learners can access if they want to explore the content and concepts further.
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You may find the resources mentioned in Week 4 of the course useful to learn more about the concepts you have been introduced to this week.

These resources are included in the comprehensive course resources list which is available to download at the end of this step.

Week 4 resources

Australian Cyber Security Centre (n.d.), Protect yourself against ransomware attacks, ACSC.

Boehm, J, Lewis, C, Li, K, Wallance, D and Dias, D 2022, Cybersecurity trends: Looking over the horizon, McKinsey and Company, 10 March 2022.

Brown, T 2022, SolarWinds Aims to Set New Standard in Software Development With Next-Generation Build System, Orange Matter, 10 March 2022.

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (n.d.), Software Bill of Materials, CISA.

Greenberg, A 2021, Hacker Lexicon: What is a supply chain attack?, Wired, 31 May 2021.

Kerner, SM 2022, Colonial Pipeline hack explained: Everything you need to know, TechTarget, 26 April 2022.

Moore, S 2021, How to Make AI Trustworthy, Gartner, 12 June 2021.

National Cyber Security Centre 2022, Principles for the Security of Machine Learning, August 2022.

Oladimeji, S and Kerner, SM 2022, SolarWinds hack explained: Everything you need to know, Tech Target, 29 June 2022.

Ot, A 2021, What Was the Impact of the SolarWinds Hack?, Make Use Of, 22 September 2021.

Segal, E 2022, Why experts disagree on whether businesses should pay ransomware demands, Forbes, 29 July 2022.

Thompson, T 2021, The Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack and the SolarWinds hack were all but inevitable – why national cyber defense is a ‘wicked’ problem, The Conversation, 11 May 2021.

Tidy J, 2021, Colonial Pipeline: How did cyber-attackers shut off pipeline?, BBC News, 10 May 2021.

World Economic Forum 2023, 7 trends that could shape the future of cybersecurity in 2030, World Economic Forum, 3 March 2023.

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