
Discover the cybersecurity landscape, common attacker methods, and user-focused scams, and learn practical steps to build defenses for individuals and organizations in this introduction to Cybersecurity Essentials 2025.
2024 highlighted evolving malware and AI-driven phishing, with business email compromise, qr code and text message phishing, and rising supply-chain vulnerabilities. Multi-factor authentication is essential but not a sole defense.
Explore how email serves as an attack vector, covering business email compromise, phishing, spear phishing, and malware delivery, with real world examples of breaches and initial access techniques.
This is the course for everyone, who is interested in corporate cyber security. And even if you are just a normal user, this course will offer you insights on cyber security world. Course will provide excellent ground for cyber security aspects. For technical or IT security audience most of the things might be familiar to you. But you will hopefully get some insights, some new aspects and especially all materials you need to build security awareness to your own company.
Course is compiled about five sections:
Cyber security landscape - what is happening on the cyber security and review of the year 2024
How attacks are made - what are the main attack vectors that the attackers are using
The human factor - why attacks are targeted against users. Lots of concrete examples on scams and phishing
How to build defenses - what are the main corner stones to build corporate security on
Tips and tricks - concrete do´s and dont´s on main areas. This will give you something regardless on your background
This course will walk you through scams, phishing examples, AI, protecting users, data, network and workstations as well as security management, business continuity and security culture. On the attack side there are examples on emails, vulnerabilities and supply chains and how those are used on the attacks.
The course is an essentials course, so I will speak through technical aspects in a form that everyone will understand.