Cybersecurity Awareness Training

In this lesson, learners will how phishing is actually similar to fishing.  How phishing techniques are used to dupe normal people like you and me into making a mistake that can cost us our money, our privacy, and potentially our identity.  Most importantly you will learn how to identify and protect yourself against phishing attacks.   

Continuing in this lesson, we will learn to identify the different techniques used in phishing attacks.  How phishing is not limited to emails as commonly thought but can be done in person or over the phone or even by text.

Lastly, we will look at examples of common phishing attacks.  Items that can be sitting in your email box or maybe that robocall you got the other day.  Could that email from Amazon about an order you don't remember placing, phished and hooked?

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Many of you are active on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. The bad guys use these platforms to scrape profile information of your users and organization to create targeted spear-phishing campaigns in an attempt to hijack accounts, damage your organization's reputation, or gain access to your network.

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While phishing is a subset of Social Engineering, Social Engineering is an animal all to itself.  The idea that someone could fast talk you into giving up valuable information about you or your company, is the basis for Social Engineering.

What makes Social Engineering so lethal is that it is methodical in nature.  Social engineers research and plan carefully before attacking, they learn everything they can about you and the funny part is that they do it with your help!

Once the planning and research are done and the attack is imminent, is when a method is chosen.  What method could these social engineers use on you to be most effective?  Tactics like intimidation and familiarity make it almost too easy to get you to spill your secrets.

Social engineers make a name for themselves by not just relying on phishing as a tool, a good social engineer will bypass security and get into your building.  Perhaps that janitor that looks too inconspicuous or perhaps that new delivery guy that's too friendly.

Cyber awareness is not only the title of this course but the state of mind you should have after this course.  Knowing that you should be aware of your surroundings, who you are talking to, or links you are clicking on.

Malware is the category under which most software that causes problems for your devices is placed.  This includes everything from adware to viruses to ransomware.  This is, for the most part, malicious software used to impact the performance of your computer or other devices.  In this lesson, you will learn about the different sub-categories of malware.

In this next lesson, we will discuss those annoying popups ads that plague your computer.  What exactly they are and how they potentially got there.

In this lesson on we will discuss the topic that everyone thinks they are familiar with, viruses.  As long as most computer users can remember we've been contending with viruses, like the ones in your body but for your computer.

In this last lesson, we talk about the worst-case scenario when it comes to cybersecurity.  A malware that is so bad that it has cost organizations millions of dollars in damages.  Learn what to look for and what to do if it happens.

Now that you have completed this course and are a little more Cyber Aware than when you started, feel confident that with a little more scrutiny and a touch of precaution you can be safer on the internet and less susceptible to cyber-attacks.