Course Description
Certified Cybersecurity Awareness Professional Certification training teaches you to spot fakes, avoid risks online, and use good cyber-hygiene practices at work and at home to protect themselves and their organization’s assets from loss or harm. Criminals take advantage of your trust, panic, greed, fear, and human error.
Learning Objectives
Introduction
- Security Training and its importance
- How does this training help?
- Breach Cost
- Bad Actors
- What is information security, risk, threats, attacks
- Information security: CIA
- Information security controls
Our Working Conditions
- Working Remotely
- Smart devices
- Threat Target - Humans
- Spoofing
- Caller ID Spoofing
- One ring Phone scam
- IP Spoofing
- URL Spoofing
- Email address Spoofing
- IoT/Home Security
- Security While Traveling
Physical Security Concerns
- Dumpster Diving
- Piggybacking
- Tailgating
- Eavesdropping
- Portable Media Devices
- Email communications
Social Engineering
- Phishing scams & threats
- Deceptive Phishing
- Whaling / CEO Fraud
- W2 Phishing
- Search Engine Phishing
- Pharming
- Spear Phishing
- Vishing
- SMiSHing
- Dropbox Phishing
- Google Docs Phishing
- Image Phishing
- Protect against Identity Theft
- Examples of Social Engineering
Social Media
- Personal Social Media
- Business Social Media
- Social Media & "BYOD"
Malware
- Computer viruses
- Worms
- Trojan horses
- Ransomware
- Spyware
- Adware
- Scareware
- Keylogger
- Signs of infection
- Password: Guidelines and Best Practices
- Two-factor Authentication
Internet Security
- Guidelines and Best Practices
- Is the link safe?
- Hover mouse before clicking
- Downloading safely
- VOIP Communications
- Advantages & disadvantages
- Phone scams
System and Device Security
- Operating System and Device Security
- Mobile devices
- Cloud
Framework Connections
Feedback
If you would like to provide feedback for this course, please e-mail the NICCS SO at NICCS@hq.dhs.gov.