Phishing Awareness Online Training Course
Phishing Awareness: – Course Overview
The online Phishing Awareness course introduces and the explains the cyber security threat posed by Phishing and social engineering. Phishing Awareness puts in context the vast scale of the threat and the damage it can cause to both individuals, organisations across all sectors of the economy and society. It describes the varying levels of sophistication in phishing attacks and familiarises the learner with terms like ‘Spear Phishing’ and ‘Whaling’.
The course covers:
- What phishing is and why it is essential that you remain vigilant to the threat at all times.
- How to recognise if an email, website, social media, phone call and text message is a phishing attack.
- How to prevent phishing attacks and what to do should you fall victim to one.
Phishing Awareness: – Suitable For
This course is ideal for all employees accessing the internet using work computers; however, some topics can be applied to both email, phone and in person communications.
This course is also highly useful for anyone who is not too confident on the internet and wishes to remain safe; or is considered at risk to fall for scam emails/calls.
For a course that focuses more on safe internet usage practises in a business setting, see our Internet, Email and Social Media Training Course.
If you are interested in this, check out our Cyber Security Training as well!