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IT Fundamentals for Business Professionals: Cybersecurity and social implications
- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 3 Sequences
- Introductive Level
Course details
Syllabus
In this course you will learn about:
- The effects of ICT in processes such as globalization, e-commerce, business strategy, competition and outsourcing, among others
- Cybersecurity concepts related to intellectual property, privacy, hackers; threats and how to defend us against them.
- The phenomenon of Web 2.0 and social networks
- The different professional careers that can be chosen in the world of IT
Prerequisite
Basic knowledge of Internet and computers. Knowledge of mathematics at High School level is assumed.
Instructors
Ignacio Despujol
Senior IT Analyst / Profesor de Ingeniería aeroportuaria
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vicent Botti Navarro
Full Professor of Computer Sciences
Universitat Politècnica de València
Miguel Rebollo
Titular de Universidad, Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación
Universitat Politècnica de València
Carlos Turró
Head of Media Services
Universitat Politècnica de València
Editor
The Polytechnic University of Valencia (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia in Castilian; Universitat Politècnica de València in Valencian; abbreviated to UPV) is a Spanish university founded in 1968.
It currently has 25,400 students, 3,600 teaching and research staff and 1,400 administrative and service professionals, spread across three campuses located in the cities of Alcoy, Gandia and Valencia.
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