The pragmatic complete Guide to Internet and Computer Security
What you will 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
Why take this course?
IT Security Awareness for Employees and Individuals
– The pragmatic complete Guide to Internet and Computer Security –
Am I 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 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
- Insert: Online Shopping
- Insert: The ‘better’ (more secure) Operating system?
- Insert: ‘Hacking’ outside of PCs and mobile Devices
- Insert: Disposing, Passing on, Selling Devices
- Authentication & Passwords
- 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.