Cyber Security: Awareness For Everyone (2023)
Cyber Security: Awareness For Everyone (2023), Cyber Security First Steps: Privacy, Phishing, Social Engineering, Malware, Email Security, and Hackers.
Course Description
A beginner level cyber security course that includes step-by-step explanations of basic online security along with follow-up quizzes and practice activities to ensure a solid learning for the course taker.
Designed by a Cyber Security expert with a PhD degree and premium Cybersecurity certifications, this course focuses on information security and awareness about it. It has been designed to make it extremely simple to learn how to secure yourself as well as your organisation against Cyber Threats and Hackers.
Watch our free sample videos to see how complex concepts are explained in a simple way!
Course Highlights:
- Cyber Threat Landscape: Dive deep into the world of cyber threats, understanding the most prevalent risks and vulnerabilities that individuals and organizations face today.
- Online Privacy: Learn how to safeguard your personal and sensitive information in the digital realm, mastering the art of online privacy protection.
- Phishing Prevention: Recognize, thwart, and report phishing attacks effectively, ensuring you never fall victim to deceptive online schemes.
- Password Management: Discover best practices for creating and managing strong, secure passwords to fortify your digital accounts against unauthorized access.
- Secure Browsing: Explore techniques for safe web browsing, recognizing malicious websites, and utilizing browser extensions for added protection.
- Social Engineering Awareness: Sharpen your defenses against social engineering tactics used by cybercriminals to manipulate individuals into revealing sensitive information.
- Safe Email Practices: Develop skills to identify and respond to suspicious emails, safeguarding your inbox from malware and spam.
- Endpoint Security: Explore strategies to secure your devices, from computers to mobile devices, with antivirus software, firewalls, and regular updates.
Salient features include:
- Step by step and easy to follow videos that don’t assume any prior knowledge
- Hands on practice activities to develop a deeper understanding of core concepts
- Quizzes at the end of each section to test knowledge about each area
- PhD instructor with 10+ years of industry experience as well as teaching experience
- CISSP certified instructor
- 30 day money-back guarantee
Domains covered:
- Social Engineering (Phishing, Spear Phishing, Vishing, Shoulder Surfing, Wi-Fi Phishing and Waterhole Attacks)
- Passwords (Brute Force and Dictionary Attacks, Tips on Selecting Strong Passwords, Practice Activity)
- VPNs (How They Work, Interesting Facts, How to Select a Reliable VPN)
- Secure Data Disposal (Dumpster Diving, Shredding, Data Disposal and Media Sanitisation, Safety Tips)
- Malware (Ransomware and Indicators of Compromise, Virus, Ransomware in Action, Safety Tips)
- Safe Browsing (First Part Cookies, 3rd Party Cookies, Browser Fingerprinting, Safety Tips)
Practice activities:
- Spot phishing emails by identifying key red flags
- Practice selecting strong passwords
- Check whether your password or account credentials have been leaked and are available online
- Practice and see how third party cookies are created and how they track you across the Internet
