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How to identify challenges related to online terrorism and violent extremism, as well as the emerging global intiatives to combat them.To understand and analyse online risks for children and ways to mitigate them.How to identify principal technological and social threats to cybersecurity describe and analyse key cybersecurity issues for users, companies, institutions, and states.How to identify the defining features of cybersecurity and the factors which shape international issues.This course can be taken as part of the Advanced Diploma in Internet Governance. It also covers a broader context: the relations of cybersecurity with economic development and human rights. This 10-week online advanced course in Cybersecurity covers technological and geopolitical risks, policy challenges, actors, and initiatives related to cybersecurity, especially those related to cybercrime, violence, child protection, the security of core infrastructure, and cyberwarfare. What are the real cybersecurity threats – and risks? What has changed during COVID-19? What are the major policy and regulatory challenges? What is the role of diplomacy, international legal instruments, and regional and national policies in addressing these threats, and how efficient are they? How does international co-operation in cybersecurity work, and what are the roles of the various stakeholders? Today’s headlines often feature the word ‘cyber’, reporting on threats related to the virtual world: online frauds, stolen credit cards, online child abuse and ‘the dark web’, ransomware, computer hacks and viruses, botnets and denial-of-service attacks on corporate and government servers, cyberespionage, and cyber-attacks on critical infrastructure including hospitals and power supply networks.