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Cybersecurity Awareness

Recognize today's scams, including AI-written messages, cloned voices and deepfake video, protect your accounts and devices, spot ransomware early, and report an incident fast without blame.

9 lessons · about 72 minutes · pass at 80% · certificate valid 12 months

What you will be able to do

  • Recognize phishing in email, text, voice and video, including AI-written messages, cloned voices and deepfakes, and verify requests through a channel you already trust.
  • Protect accounts with unique passwords from a password manager and with passkeys where they are offered.
  • Use multi-factor authentication correctly and refuse sign-in prompts you did not start.
  • Keep work devices and connections safe, including updates, screen locks, public Wi-Fi and unknown USB devices.
  • Spot the early signs of ransomware and respond in a way that limits the damage.
  • Handle social-engineering attempts by phone and text without giving up codes, access or payments.
  • Report an incident quickly and in the right order, knowing what to say and what not to do.

Lessons

  1. Why small businesses are targets

    Attackers do not pick companies, they pick people and habits. Here is how they think, and the two habits that stop most of them. · 6 min

  2. Phishing today: AI-written messages, voice clones and deepfakes

    Bad spelling used to give phishing away. AI removed that tell. Learn the signals that still work when the message, the voice and even the face look right. · 10 min

  3. Passwords and password managers

    One leaked password unlocks every account that shares it. A password manager fixes reuse permanently and makes logging in faster, not slower. · 8 min

  4. Passkeys, MFA and MFA fatigue attacks

    A second step stops a stolen password from working. Learn which second steps are strongest, what a passkey is, and why you must never approve a sign-in you did not start. · 9 min

  5. Device and Wi-Fi safety

    Most device problems come from four things: skipped updates, unlocked screens, risky networks and mystery USB devices. Each has a two-minute fix. · 8 min

  6. Ransomware: the first ten minutes

    Ransomware spreads through the network in minutes. The person who notices first decides how bad it gets. Learn the signs and the four moves. · 8 min

  7. Social engineering by phone and text

    A caller who sounds official, knows your name and creates a deadline is running a script. Learn the script, the three things you never give out, and the one move that ends every version. · 8 min

  8. Reporting an incident

    Speed beats certainty. Learn the order of actions, what to say in the first call, and the three things that make an incident worse. · 7 min

  9. The voicemail lab

    A walkthrough of the gift-card voicemail lab. Hear the script, write a response that scores, and learn what separates a strong answer from a vague one. · 8 min

  10. Assessment: The voicemail lab

    Respond to a simulated voicemail from your "CEO" asking you to buy gift cards, and say exactly what you would do in the next five minutes.

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