
Discover why cyber security matters for home and organization and learn the three goals: protect, prevent, and manage legal risk, plus a focus on mission, in this free course.
understand cybercrime threats and identity theft, including email-based funds transfer frauds, data breaches, and ransomware, and learn how home and organization cyber security protects data and money.
Explore how technology rests on four parts—the human, devices, data, and networks—and how improving one step at a time strengthens cybersecurity and privacy.
Explore why cybersecurity matters, distinguish cybersecurity from information security, and apply CIA goals, physical/administrative/technical controls, two-factor authentication, and the four pillars: knowledge, devices, data, and networks.
Organize a personal or family cybersecurity plan around the four pillars: knowledge, devices, data, and networks. Verbalize all funds transfer instructions and strengthen security with strong passwords and two-factor authentication.
Develop and scale an organization's cybersecurity program by aligning internal policies and external rules with the four pillars, risk management, and incident response planning.
Learn how cyber law sits on the foundation of traditional law, covering cybercrime, data disposal, breach notification, cybersecurity, and privacy under federal and state rules.
Explore criminal cyber laws for organizations, including illegal wiretaps and illegal access to stored data, plus federal acts like the Stored Communications Act and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
Explore civil cyber laws, breach notification duties, and data disposal, emphasizing reasonable cybersecurity and state acts like New York's Shield Act, designating a security program lead and risk assessment.
Explore four areas of privacy — information privacy, communications privacy, territorial privacy, and bodily privacy — and how government and private-sector laws protect data, with the overlap of privacy and cybersecurity.
This is a mini-course to help individuals and organizations improve their cybersecurity and protect against cybercrime. Every person and organization starts from a different place. Make your goal to take a few steps to move forward and improve. Cybersecurity starts with knowledge and decision making. Improve your knowledge to make better decisions.
This course is not for everyone! It is academic type lectures, using my PowerPoint slides, no fancy graphics, no fancy video editing. It is not entertainment and you will need a ten plus minute attention span. Take your personal preferences into consideration and see a few sample videos before you decide if this is right for you. If you have a problem or need something, message me.
Why this course? I wrote a book in 2017 titled "Cybersecurity for the Home and Office" and have been teaching students and professionals about cybersecurity and law, and helping clients with these areas. I have built many resources, and it was time to offer them to a broader audience. I already have other courses on Udemy, it was time to build this one. I decided to start with a short, free course (under 2 hours so that I can offer it for free). I am working on my next cybersecurity book (hopefully for publication in 2026).
Here is the outline (don't forget to download the handout with lecture 1).
Introduction
Cybercrime
Technology
Cybersecurity
Organizing your personal/family cybersecurity plan
Establishing an organization cybersecurity program
Laws and cyberlaws introduced
Cybercrime criminal laws
Civil laws and regulations regarding cybersecurity
Privacy concepts and laws
Conclusion and thank you
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Building these courses is a hobby for me, I do not have significant video recording skills, nor hardly any video editing skills, and there is no production team. It's slide and lectures. This course has almost no editing, so you will hear my pauses and misspeaks, warts and all.