Cyber Criminals Want Your Information: Stop Them Cold!

Cyber Criminals Want Your Information: Stop Them Cold!

Your digital life is protected by dozens — perhaps hundreds — of online accounts.

Email. Banking. Shopping. Social media. Work. Entertainment. Cloud services.

And every one of those accounts can potentially become a target for cyber criminals.

The good news? You don't have to be a cybersecurity expert to significantly improve your online security.

This course shows you how.

Why are passwords so important?

One of the biggest problems with online security is password reuse.

If you use the same password on multiple websites and that password is exposed in a data breach, criminals may try it on your other accounts.

Suddenly, one compromised website can become a problem somewhere else.

That's why your important accounts should have strong, unique passwords — and those passwords need to be managed securely.

But remembering dozens or hundreds of complicated passwords isn't practical.

So how do you do it?

That's where this course comes in.

What you'll learn

Throughout this course, you'll learn practical ways to better protect your digital accounts, including:

• How to create strong passwords that are difficult to guess

• Why you should use a unique password for every account

• How to safely manage large numbers of passwords

• How password managers can make strong, unique passwords practical

• How MFA/2FA adds another layer of protection to your accounts

• How data breaches can expose your account credentials

• How to check whether your accounts may have been affected by a breach

• How to respond when a website or service you use has been compromised

• Common password-security mistakes and how to avoid them

• Practical habits that can make your online accounts significantly more difficult to compromise

What happens when a website is hacked?

Data breaches have become a fact of life on the Internet.

When criminals obtain account information from a compromised service, they may attempt to use those credentials elsewhere.

If you've reused a password, that can potentially turn one stolen credential into access to multiple accounts.

But if every account has its own strong password — and your important accounts have additional protection such as MFA/2FA — a breach at one website doesn't have to become a disaster everywhere else.

You'll learn how to build that kind of protection into your everyday online life.

You don't have to memorize hundreds of passwords

You shouldn't have to.

Writing passwords on paper, keeping them in an unprotected document, or using the same few passwords everywhere may seem convenient, but these approaches can leave your accounts unnecessarily exposed.

Instead, you'll learn how to use modern password-management practices to create and maintain strong, unique credentials without having to remember them all yourself.

And when something does go wrong — such as a service suffering a data breach — you'll know what steps to take.

Protect your digital life

This course takes a practical approach to password and account security. The goal isn't to turn you into a cybersecurity professional.

It's to help you understand the risks and give you practical tools and habits you can use to better protect yourself.

With approximately 8½ hours of course content, there's plenty to explore — and the entire course is available at no cost.

Your online accounts contain information you don't want criminals to have.

Learn how to make those accounts harder to compromise.