Cyber Security Awareness (Lite)

Cyber Security awareness has become critical today to preserve your privacy and security online as well as become an employee that is security aware and is able to protect the organisation to which they belong.

This course covers the following topics:

Domains covered:

• Social Engineering: Learn about the rapidly spreading social engineering attack via text messages as well well as the more traditional phishing attacks. Learn how to detect smishing messages and phishing emails and what are the precautions that you can take to protect yourself

• Secure Data Disposal: Learn why simply discarding hard disk drives or laptops can have serious consequences. Explore data remanence and how attackers can recover information from your devices using forensic tools. Learn some safety tips on securely discarding these assets

• Online Security: Explore how visiting unsafe websites can lead to malware infestation and how drive-by-downloads work. Watch cross-site scripting attack in action and learn how you can make your online journey safe and secure

• Quiz: Test the concepts that you have learned
  

Designed by a Cyber Security expert with a PhD degree and premium Cybersecurity certification. PhD instructor with 10+ years of industry experience as a senior software engineer and senior Cyber Security Consultant. CISSP certified instructor.

Learn how to protect your privacy online as well as how to be a security aware professional who is aware about cyber threats and understands the consequences of inadvertent user actions.