Online Phishing Awareness
Online Phishing Awareness
€35
Phishing is the fraudulent attempt to obtain sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details (and money), often for malicious reasons, by posing as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.
Our Online Phishing Awareness course introduces and explains the cyber security threat posed by social engineering and phishing. It 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.
Discounts are available for large staff requirements and a demo is available on request.
What is a Phishing attack?
A phishing attack, or a phishing scam, is when criminals send an email pretending to be someone (e.g. the Finance Director of your organisation) in order to extract sensitive information from the target.
In essence, the perpetrator attempts to elicit fear, curiosity, and/or a sense of urgency out of the target, so that when the target is prompted to open an attachment or fill in their sensitive information, like a username, password, or credit card number, they are likely to comply. These techniques are called Social Engineering. Our Online Phishing Awareness course looks at the different types of scams and how to avoid falling victim to them.
Course Details:
Our Online Phishing Awareness course is aimed at all people who use a computer, laptop, tablet or smartphone as part of their work duties.
Through a combination of case studies and interactivities, learners develop an understanding of the checks and practices they can implement themselves to prevent falling victim to phishing. Phishing attacks try to exploit users via email, social media, phone and the web. All these avenues of attack are discussed.
The course finishes by reinforcing key cybersecurity best practices such as strong passwords, using security software and updating software regularly.
It is important to train employees to spot scams and take the right action quickly if they have suspicions.
Training Aims:
- To describe what phishing is and why it is essential that you remain vigilant to the threat at all times.
- To outline how to recognise if an email, a website, social media, a phone call and text message is a phishing attack.
- To highlight how to prevent phishing attacks and what to do should you fall victim to one.
Please note the following when purchasing the course:
- The Online Phishing Awareness course will take approximately 40 minutes to complete
- There is no sound associated with the course so no headphones are needed
- The course must be completed in order to obtain the certificate of completion
To purchase this online course simply book and pay online at the top right hand side, when this has been completed you will receive an email with your username and password and you will have access to the link to login and launch the course.
Enrolments are created manually so if you purchase the course during out of office hours you may not have access until the next working day.