
This Online Safety Training course is a beginner-friendly guide designed to help you stay safe online and protect your personal information. This course focuses on teaching you how to recognize common threats, secure your accounts, and avoid scams in everyday situations.
In this video, we'll introduce this entire course and your instructor Nick Mendez!
Stay safe online by recognizing phishing, malware, and other cybercrimes, and learn best practices to protect yourself and loved ones from ransomware, fake links, and data theft.
Build your awareness of online safety, learn about common attacks, and avoid them in this mini course, using provided PDFs and checklists to stay secure online.
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Learn to create strong, unique passwords of 10–16 characters with randomness and symbols, store them safely with a password manager or secure safe, and enable two-factor authentication.
Lock down privacy settings on social media to prevent oversharing and reduce risk from attackers. Review platform defaults, adjust privacy controls, and remove metadata from photos to protect your information.
Protect yourself online by practicing safe email and spotting spoofed addresses. Back up data, shop and bank safely, and use parental controls to guard kids against ransomware and AI threats.
Learn to use email safely by avoiding unknown attachments and links, recognizing spoofed messages and phishing attempts, and never clicking unless you are sure the sender is legitimate.
Create reliable backups, choosing encrypted storage when needed, and apply the 3-2-1 rule with one off-site copy on cloud storage.
Learn to protect online finances by monitoring bank and card transactions weekly, using credit over debit, and shopping only on trusted sites to avoid fake stores and fake checkouts.
Learn to protect kids online by implementing common parental controls—iOS screen time, Google Family Link, Microsoft Family Safety—and use social media supervision and router controls to keep them safe.
Learn to respond to a hacked device by isolating it, resetting passwords, securing two-factor authentication, and safely restoring from clean backups, with credit monitoring and banking card alerts.
Learn how future AI-powered attacks—phishing, deepfakes, and voice impersonation—challenge online safety, and adopt verification practices to protect data and privacy.
Develop online safety skills by identifying phishing, verifying senders, and using backups with the 321 rule; protect devices with antivirus, manage passwords, and review privacy settings.
Learn practical online safety by building daily habits, using strong passwords with a password manager, avoiding unsafe downloads and phishing and smishing, and applying safe browsing and backups.
Online Safety Training: Cybersecurity Basics for Everyone
Learn how to stay safe online with our simple, practical steps that anyone can follow. This beginner-friendly course is designed to give you the confidence to protect yourself from common online threats (no matter how tech savvy you are.)
In this quick and clear introduction to online safety and cybersecurity awareness, you’ll discover how to avoid common attacks and scams that cyber criminals use online, secure your accounts with good passwords and 2 factor authentication (2FA), and much more. Each lesson is designed specifically to help you stay safe when using the internet and protect your personal information, devices, files and digital assets.
What You’ll Get From This Course:
A clear understanding of the most common online threats like phishing, social engineering, weak passwords, unsafe websites, and malware
Practical steps to strengthen your passwords and use two-factor authentication (2FA)
How to spot and avoid email, text, instant messaging and social media scams
Step-by-step process you can follow if you suspect your device(s) has been hacked
Tips to keep your social media accounts secure through using privacy settings
Good habits that you can implement to frequently check on your security health
Bonus: How to help kids safe online through parental control settings on multiple devices and platforms
Why Learn From Me
My name is Nick Mendez, and I’ll be your instructor throughout this course. I’ve got many years of experience in IT project management, B2B/B2C sales and entrepreneurship.
In this course specifically, I'll teach you how to keep yourself safe online so that you can use the internet without fear and without cyber criminals successfully attacking you. I designed this course to make cybersecurity awareness simple, clear, and useful for everyday people just like you and me. Since this is meant for people at home, we get straight to the point and get you up to speed on how to protect yourself online as soon as possible.
Ready to get started?
Enroll today and take your first step toward safer, smarter online habits.