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Cybersecurity Awareness: Phishing and Whaling

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Overview

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Learn more about phishing, how to spot and catch a phish, and how to protect yourself from digital attacks.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • About phishing attacks
1. An Overview of Phishing
  • Phishing: The dangers of email
  • Money is the motive: The reason behind phishing
  • How does phishing affect us?
  • A review of the psychology behind social engineering attacks
2. Different Types of Phishing Attacks
  • Is it a harmless unknown caller or vishing?
  • Unfriended: How to spot a social media phish
  • Getting specific with targeted phishing attacks
  • SMS phishing: A text-based attack
  • Other notable methods of phishing
3. How to Catch a Phish
  • What makes phishing attacks successful?
  • Catch a phish red-handed: Common indicators of a phish
  • Is this a phish? Real-world examples of phishing attacks
4. How to Defend against Phishing Attacks
  • The most common ways to defend against a phish
  • How technology helps with the fight against phishing attacks
  • Practice makes perfect: An overview of phishing simulations
5. What Happens If You Fall for a Phish
  • Responding to a phishing attack at work
  • Falling for a phishing attack at home
Conclusion
  • Next steps and takeaways

Taught by

Todd Edmands

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