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Cyber Security Awareness (Lite)
Rating: 4.5 out of 5(202 ratings)
3,987 students

Cyber Security Awareness (Lite)

A Quick Introduction to Cyber Security Awareness - Key Concepts Explained
Created byLogix Academy | 200,000+ Enrollments Worldwide
Last updated 9/2022
English
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What you'll learn

  • Stay safe and protect your privacy online
  • Core Security Awareness Concepts
  • Social Engineering including Phishing and Smishing
  • Secure Data Disposal: how to securely dispose personal assets

Course content

1 section • 9 lectures • 47m total length

  • Introduction1:52

    Discover how social engineering drives most cyber attacks, with smishing, phishing, red flags, online safety, secure data disposal, and protections against cross-site scripting and malware.

  • Udemy Review: Important0:23
  • Smishing8:13

    Smishing reveals how text-based social engineering tricks users into clicking malicious links, installing malware, or exposing passwords and banking data, often spoofing trusted brands.

  • Practice Activity: Smishing1:05

    Identify red flags and distinguish a legitimate message from a smishing attack by analyzing messages, A and B, noting that banks never ask for a PIN via text or call.

  • Online Security8:19

    Explore how unsafe websites can install malware and how browser extensions can be exploited. Use https, keep software updated, and avoid untrusted links.

  • Phishing7:03

    Identify phishing as a social engineering threat using deceptive emails to steal data and install malware; apply tips to verify senders, inspect headers, and report suspicious messages to IT security.

  • Typosquatting12:21

    Explore typo squatting, a social engineering tactic that uses near-accurate urls to mislead users and spread malware. Learn protections like avoiding complex domains, spotting hyphens, and using official helplines.

  • Secure Data Disposal7:40

    Discover how data remnants persist after deletion and formatting on hard disks, cell phones, and flash drives, and apply sanitization steps to minimize data recovery risk.

  • Security Awareness
  • Bonus Lecture1:02

Requirements

  • No experience required

Description

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.

Who this course is for:

  • People interested in Cyber Security Awareness

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