Steve Hancock

Steve Hancock

Stephen has expertise in cyber security, risk and compliance. Stephen helps clients in many sectors to develop risk management and information security systems in line with ISO27001, NIST and PCI DSS.

Location United Kingdom

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  • Some people reported difficulty downloading the case study in week 1. It should be OK now so you can try again before moving on if you want.

  • That's a practical solution. It reminds us that there is often a cost to implementing controls - in this case the cost of the cabinet. What other options might there be and why would they be good or not?

  • Apologies about the case study file. I have re-uploaded it and it should be OK now.

  • Apologies about the case study file. I have re-uploaded it and it should be OK now.

  • We find that many organisations we work with only want to get certified if there is an external driver such a big customer asking them to do it. Others just use the standard as a best practice guide. But then they tend to focus on the controls not the ISMS so it may not get really embedded into the organisation. A genuine desire from the top to improve...

  • Hi, I'm Steve the instructor/facilitator. Although this is a self learning course I'll be dropping in from time to the Discussions to see what everyone is saying and see if I can help out at all. So feel free to raise questions as you go. Not everyone will be going at the same pace so you might get to a discussion before or after others. So check into...

  • My priority is to work out what sort of methods will work best (article, video, discussion, etc) to present the content of a course that is currently face-to-face with powerpoint and breakout group exercises. Its going to take a lot of redesign.

  • wow. this is getting a bit meta. I am in a course on how to prepare a course, that introduces me to a tool for designing learning activities and the video for the tool is about using the design tool to prepare a learnng activity for preparing a learning activity. I may explode.

  • Steve Hancock made a comment

    Hi, I'm Steve in the UK. I work for a technology consultancy and among other things we run cyber security courses. I'm looking to see how to convert a three day classroom based course into an online course. My early impresssions are that it will have to be structured very differently and we will have to trust (encourage) the students to do much more...