IT Security Awareness for Employees and Individuals

Overview

IT Security Awareness for Employees and Individuals - The pragmatic complete Guide to Internet and Computer Security: This course educates your employees on cyber security fundamentals to build a strong cyber security mindset.

Course Content (SCORM)

• Introduction to cyber security for everybody
• Learn how the Internet works and attackers use simple technologies to trick you
• Safe online practices
• Understand the Golden Rules for security – what you have to do
• Recognize common attack schemes
• Technical rules and practical behavioral guidelines

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Requirements

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

Summary

At the workplace, with clients, or in the home office: Am I really secure? What I can do for IT security as an employee and individual.

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 e-learning 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.

Last Update

11/2024

Languages/Subtitles

• English
• Arabic (العربية)
• Chinese (中文)
• German (Deutsch)
• Spanish (Español)
• French (Français)
• Hindi (हिन्दी)
• Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia)
• Japanese (日本語)
• Korean (한국어)
• Polish (Polski)
• Portuguese (Português)
• Romanian (Română)
• Russian (Русский)
• Thai (ไทย)
• Turkish (Türkçe)
• Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt)

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Course materials

Video content (132min), mobile-optimized/responsive; Course Assessment