Cyber Security Awareness Training in the AI Era - 2026

Learn how vishing uses urgency and social engineering, including deepfake voice attacks, and practice safety tips like verifying caller IDs and calling official helplines instead of sharing information.

Mitigate shoulder surfing by protecting PINs, PHI, and PII in public and office settings. Lock your screen, enable a brief screen saver timeout, and use privacy filters to reduce risk.

Explore wifi phishing and watering hole attacks, including rogue access points and open networks, and learn how VPNs and vigilance prevent infiltration.

Explore how phishing attacks rely on people to click malicious links or open attachments, and learn to spot red flags, verify sender emails, hover links, and report to IT security.

Spearfishing targets individuals with tailored information, impersonating authentic sources to exfiltrate data, while advising verification of links and email headers to prevent attacks.

Learn two security quick wins: using email aliases to cut spam and block phishing, and using virtual credit cards to protect real details and privacy.

Explore how internet cookies maintain cart state and user preferences via first-party and third-party cookies. Learn safety tips on GDPR, http versus https, and when to accept or decline cookies.

Discover how third party cookies and trackers from Facebook and Google operate when you visit a site, and practice using blacklight and incognito mode to observe cookie behavior.

Understand how browser fingerprinting uniquely identifies users through data points like browser, version, dimensions, OS, fonts, plugins, and time zone, and learn practical steps to reduce fingerprintability.

Discover browser fingerprinting safety tips to reduce your unique browser signature by using common or privacy browsers (Tor, Brave), a VPN, fewer plugins, incognito mode, and selective JavaScript controls.

Learn how virtual private networks provide encryption and privacy by routing traffic through a secure tunnel via a vpn server, enabling safe remote work and private access across corporate networks.

Explore how VPN usage protects security and privacy while sometimes boosting speeds by masking destination IP addresses and traffic patterns and encrypting packets.

Choose a vpn service by evaluating global server presence for speed and reach, ensure a kill switch, and review log policies, including zero-log audits like ExpressVPN and NordVPN.

Explore how brute force attacks work and why password length and diverse character sets boost security. Learn to create long passwords with numbers, letters, and special characters.

Explore how dictionary attacks crack passwords faster than brute force, recognize common words and patterns, and apply safety tips to strengthen passwords against such attacks.

Check haveibeenpwned.com to see if your email or password was part of data breaches, explore domain search, notify me, and who’s been pwned, then update passwords.

Learn to craft long passwords with a mix of uppercase, lowercase, and special characters, using memorable phrases for strength. Avoid reusing passwords, change default router passwords, and enable multi-factor authentication.

Discover how dumpster diving exposes discarded documents and learn disposal methods like shredding, cross cut and microcut, and incineration to reduce recovery risk.

Learn secure data disposal and media sanitization, from simple formatting to overwriting, degaussing, and incineration. The lecture warns about data remnants on used drives, citing MIT findings to emphasize disposal.

Learn how ransomware infiltrates systems via phishing, installs a dropper and backdoor, encrypts data across local and cloud servers, triggers indicators of compromise like encrypted files, popups, and ransom demands.

Explore real-world ransomware campaigns like Cryptolocker, WannaCry, Bad Rabbit, and Darkside, and learn how phishing, drive-by attacks, and remote desktop exploits enable encryption, propagation, and ransomware as a service.

Master ransomware safety with proactive and reactive steps: keep software updated, avoid sketchy downloads and phishing, isolate infected systems, report anomalies, and back up data to disconnected cloud storage.

Explore how prompt based data leakage occurs when pasting sensitive information to gen ai systems, and apply guardrails to protect confidentiality, privacy, compliance, with case studies from McKinsey and Amazon.

Explore four strategies to prevent prompt based data leakage while using gen AI tools. Stay vague, avoid personal data, use placeholders, and follow company guidelines.

Explore how prompt injections trick AI models into bypassing guardrails, exposing confidential data and disrupting services, and learn safety practices to avoid viral prompts and use approved tools.

Understand shadow ai and shadow it risks as employees use unapproved generative ai tools—email assistants, productivity extensions, and messaging apps—without security oversight.

This course strengthens security awareness concepts and safety tips, promotes continuous learning, teamwork with IT security, and reporting suspicious activity to block attacks and protect organizations.