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Cyber Judgment Training: Create Ma Before You Click
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35 students

Cyber Judgment Training: Create Ma Before You Click

Build Your “Ma” in the Age of AI — A Human-Centered Digital Safety Practice
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Created by祥子 Sachiko 蓮見 Hasumi
Last updated 6/2026
English

What you'll learn

  • Recognize your own mental and emotional state before reacting to suspicious messages, links, or requests.
  • Use the “Cloudy Day Check” to identify whether your judgment is sunny, cloudy, rainy, or in heavy rain.
  • Make your inner state visible using colors, simple words, and intensity levels.
  • Understand how rushing, fear, responsibility, fatigue, and pressure can reduce your judgment space.
  • Use short keywords to interrupt automatic reactions before clicking, replying, entering information, or sending money.
  • Choose the right amount of Ma — 3 seconds, 3 minutes, 24 hours, or not deciding alone — based on your situation.
  • Create your own If-Then card to protect your future self in real-life digital situations.
  • Practice a human-centered approach to cybersecurity that focuses on judgment, not blame.

Course content

5 sections • 7 lectures • 36m total length

  • Welcome — This Is Not Just a Cybersecurity Knowledge Course4:58

    Length: 5 minutes
    In this opening lesson, students learn what this course is about: not memorizing technical rules, but practicing cyber judgment. They will understand that the goal is to notice their own state, pause before reacting, and build Ma before they click.

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Requirements

  • No prior cybersecurity experience is required.
  • No need to be an IT or security professional.
  • No need to know technical cybersecurity terms.

Description

Cybersecurity isn’t just about technology—it is deeply rooted in human judgment.

In the age of AI, digital threats no longer rely on obvious red flags. Suspicious things do not always look suspicious anymore. Phishing emails look completely natural. Messages sound highly personal. Malicious requests feel urgent, real, and emotionally convincing, designed specifically to trigger a panicked reaction.

This course is grounded in the philosophy of Human-Centered Cybersecurity. It is designed to help you build your own cyber judgment before you click a link, reply to a message, enter sensitive information, send money, or act under extreme pressure.

This is a completely non-technical course. You do not need any prior cybersecurity experience, an IT background, or special software.

Through a series of short, engaging lessons and simple worksheets, you will learn how to:

  • Notice your inner state: Use the "Cloudy Day Check" to pause and make your emotional state visible using simple colors and words.

  • Create Ma (Space): Master the art of creating deliberate space before reacting. Ma helps you return to yourself, slow down, and choose your next step with clarity and judgment.

  • Design your "If-Then" card: Build a small, highly personal rule that you can easily rely on in real-world digital situations.

This course is for anyone who wants to make safer online decisions in a practical and non-blaming way. The goal here is not to become perfect or to memorize complex security protocols. Instead, we approach security through the lens of tiny experiments—small, everyday practices where we iterate, learn, and build resilience without the fear of failure.

By taking these small steps, you will protect not just your data, but your peace of mind.

Before you click, create Ma.

Who this course is for:

  • This course is for anyone who wants to make safer digital decisions before clicking, replying, entering information, or acting under pressure.
  • People who use email, messaging apps, online banking, shopping sites, or social media in daily life
  • Beginners who want a human-centered way to understand cybersecurity
  • Non-technical learners who feel that cybersecurity advice is often too complicated
  • Employees, managers, educators, parents, and caregivers who want to protect themselves and others
  • Anyone who has ever felt rushed, scared, responsible, tired, or pressured by a digital message
  • People who want to build a simple personal practice to pause before reacting
  • This course is not only for IT or security professionals.
  • If you want to build your cyber judgment through small, practical exercises, this course is for you.

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