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:

Introduction & Motivation

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

Internet Basics: The Internet...and the Cloud

Basic Attacking Scheme

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

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

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

Example: The ideal (Banking-)Trojan

Technical Security: Hacking

E-Mail Security

Insert: Online Shopping

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

Insert: 'Hacking' outside of PCs and mobile Devices

Insert: Quishing – Phishing using QR Codes

Insert: Disposing, Passing on, Selling Devices

Authentication & Passwords

Backup - Do we need that?

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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