Cybersecurity Fundamentals for End Users
What you'll learn
- Identify major cybersecurity vulnerabilities in the company environment
- Practice good account and password hygiene, keeping accounts secure
- Understand physical security basics to avoid real-world equipment and data theft
- Understand and apply best practices for email and internet usage
Requirements
- No experience needed.
Description
Cybersecurity within an organization is everybody's problem. And, it's everybody's responsibility! With cybercrime on the rise, every worker should be aware of the basic cybersecurity practices reviewed in this course.
In this fast-paced video-based course, viewers will join Mark, an experienced IT expert, and online instructor, for a whirlwind tour of cybersecurity and learn exactly what they can do to enhance cybersecurity practices. Mark has trained over 2,000,000 people online in IT, development, and design. This course is ground in reality, with real-world examples of cyberattacks and their consequences and immediately actionable tips that end users can put into practice right away.
This course is not designed for the cybersecurity worker, but for the nontechnical worker in an organization. Using stories, examples, and plain language, mark explains exactly what your workers can do to protect themselves, and your organization from cybersecurity vulnerabilities. This course includes short, engaging video lectures, support videos, and articles, and a number of interactive quiz questions to help course viewers process and remember what they just learned.
If your company or organization is concerned about cybercrime, then everyone in your organization should review this course. If you watch the course and apply the techniques described you and your company will be considerably safer right away!
Who this course is for:
- Nontechnical workers who need to improve cybersecurity practices
- Employees in companies that need to improve cybersecurity practices
- Anyone who wants to reduce their risk of a cyberattack
Instructors
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Dollar Design School is a streaming video network that teaches digital skills such as web development, graphic design, and digital productivity. We believe that education should be accessible to all. You can find Tech Learning Network content on Udemy, our website, and throughout the online video world.
The Dollar Design School specializes in teaching accessible technical skills to people just getting started in technical careers, including web development, digital design, and other career paths enabled by technology.
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Mark Lassoff 's parents frequently claim that Mark was born to be a programmer. Starting, in the mid-eighties at age 11, Mark was hard at work on his Commodore 64 writing games in the BASIC language. After completing a computer science degree, Mark developed software for several well-known internet startups during the initial internet boom of the mid 1990’s. Five years ago Mark parlayed a two decades of software development experience into his latest entrepreneurial venture, LearnToProgram Media.
LearnToProgram Media publishes online courses that teach mobile, web, and game development. Over 500,000 people have learned programming from Mark through online classes he has either authored or published. In addition to publishing popular courses and books LearnToProgram Media operates an internet video network which produces several programs on software development.
Previously Mark founded PowerPlant Marketing, which created marketing automation software for REALTORS™. After the sale of PowerPlant, Mark went on to found Internet Broadcasting Group which counted among it’s launch clients Nike, Blue Moon Brewing Company and Opubco.
Mark lives in Connecticut and speaks worldwide on software development, entrepreneurship and online learning. He has spoken at TechWeek NY, TechWeek LA, and SXSW, among other large conferences. In his spare time he he enjoys aviation, mentoring new business owners and spending time with life-long friends and family.