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IT Security Awareness for Employees and Individuals
Rating: 4.9 out of 5(8 ratings)
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IT Security Awareness for Employees and Individuals

The pragmatic Guide to Internet and Computer Security
Created byFrank Hissen
Last updated 6/2026
English

What you'll learn

  • Understand the Golden Rules for Security – what you have to do
  • Learn how the Internet works and Attackers use simple technologies to trick you
  • Recognize common Attack Schemes
  • Technical Rules and practical behavioral Guidelines

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Course content

2 sections • 18 lectures • 2h 12m total length

  • Introduction & Motivation5:35

    Explore the motivation behind IT security and the human factor. Understand basic security concepts, how the internet works, common attack schemes, and practical countermeasures to stay safe online.

  • What actually is "Security"? - Trying to understand In-/Security5:05
  • Internet Basics: The Internet...and the Cloud12:25
  • Basic Attacking Scheme4:10
  • Users as the weak point: Recognizing Attack Schemes & Phishing (Part 1)14:59
  • Users as the weak point: Recognizing Attack Schemes & Phishing (Part 2)7:25
  • Users as the weak point: Recognizing Attack Schemes & Phishing (Part 3)24:53
  • Example: The ideal (Banking-)Trojan3:49

    Explore what a trojan is and how banking trojans secretly reroute transfers by altering destination account numbers, while using two-factor authentication across two devices to detect fraud.

  • Technical Security: Hacking8:01
  • E-Mail Security10:45
  • Insert: Online Shopping6:21
  • Insert: The 'better' (more secure) Operating system?2:50
  • Insert: 'Hacking' outside of PCs and mobile Devices3:00
  • Insert: Quishing – Phishing using QR Codes2:53

    Learn how quishing uses QR codes to misdirect you to fake payment sites or malware, and how to stay vigilant by verifying the destination before you scan.

  • Insert: Disposing, Passing on, Selling Devices2:12
  • Authentication & Passwords8:11
  • Backup - Do we need that?2:43
  • The Golden Security Rules7:10

Requirements

  • None, just be interested in your IT / Computer / Internet Security!

Description

IT Security Awareness for Employees and Individuals

- The pragmatic Guide to Internet and Computer Security -


Am I secure? What I can do for IT security as an employee and individual. As a manager: Follow ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO/IEC 27002 that requires security awareness training for your team and employees.


Anyone who works with computers or mobile digital devices should understand the basics of the internet, to be able to behave correctly. This course explains the background to how the internet works and which schemes attackers use to trick users.


The courses describes technical countermeasures as well as the correct user behavior plus guides users to recognize common attacking schemes.


How do Cyber criminals think? What are the dangers? What do I have to watch out for? Are cookies bad?


The course will answer these questions and more:

  1. Introduction & Motivation

  2. What actually is "Security"? - Trying to understand In-/Security

  3. Internet Basics: The Internet...and the Cloud

  4. Basic Attacking Scheme

  5. Users as the weak point: Recognizing Attack Schemes & Phishing (Part 1)

  6. Users as the weak point: Recognizing Attack Schemes & Phishing (Part 2)

  7. Users as the weak point: Recognizing Attack Schemes & Phishing (Part 3)

  8. Example: The ideal (Banking-)Trojan

  9. Technical Security: Hacking

  10. E-Mail Security

  11. Insert: Online Shopping

  12. Insert: The 'better' (more secure) Operating system?

  13. Insert: 'Hacking' outside of PCs and mobile Devices

  14. Insert: Quishing – Phishing using QR Codes

  15. Insert: Disposing, Passing on, Selling Devices

  16. Authentication & Passwords

  17. Backup - Do we need that?

  18. The Golden Security Rules


Instructor Frank Hissen, Computer Scientist and Security Expert, teaches IT security for over 20 years and works for companies of all sizes as IT Security Consultant and Software Engineer.


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Who this course is for:

  • Every individual using computers and mobile devices – for private or business purposes

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