Overview What You Will Learn Curriculum Instructor

Course Overview

The internet has become an essential part of everyday life, enabling communication, business, education, and entertainment. However, it also exposes individuals to a wide range of cybersecurity threats, including hacking, phishing, identity theft, ransomware, and social engineering attacks. This course provides practical knowledge and real-world security techniques to help individuals protect their personal information, devices, and online activities from evolving cyber threats.

This course begins with the fundamentals of computer security, covering operating system updates, firewalls, password management, browser security, and essential security practices. You will then explore online safety by understanding how attackers target individuals and learning strategies to secure personal accounts and digital identities. The course continues with social media security, advanced authentication methods, recognizing fake profiles, and avoiding common online scams. You will also learn about cyberbullying, sextortion, online predators, mobile device security, public Wi-Fi risks, and home router protection. Finally, the course covers phishing, ransomware, impersonation fraud, and emerging internet scams while demonstrating practical techniques to recognize, avoid, and respond to cyber threats.

By the end of this course, you will be able to identify common cybersecurity threats, apply security best practices, and confidently protect your digital life from hackers, scams, and online attacks.

What You Will Learn

  • Learn the strategies to protecting your online personal information
  • Learn the prevention strategies when it comes to Cyberbullying and cyber extortion
  • Undercover the hidden information posted about you online that you didn't know existed
  • Learn the proper formula for what to do before, during and after a ransomware attack and why no one can save you if you get infected (Not even the police)
  • Learn the monitoring tools and techniques to safeguard your children online regardless of age
  • Learn the advanced strategies to protecting your online accounts
  • Discover the best technology to use when you're on a budget to help protect your computer and mobile device from today's threats without being an IT expert
  • Learn about the free tools available to help you determine if you've been hacked
  • Learn why and how social media can be dangerous and used against you
  • Learn how Internet Predators groom and lure children and teens out of their home and into prostitution and who the perfect victims are

Program Curriculum

  • Windows Update Introduction
  • Windows 7 Update
  • Windows 8 Update
  • Windows 10 Update
  • Installing Updates on Mac
  • Enabling Windows Firewall
  • Enabling Real-Time Threat Detection for Windows and Mac
  • Enabling Real-Time Threat Detection for Windows 7
  • Enabling Real-Time Threat Detection for Windows 8
  • Enabling Real-Time Threat Detection for Windows 10
  • Enabling Real-Time Threat Detection for Mac
  • Changing from an Administrator User to Standard User
  • Physically Protecting your Computer from Threats
  • How to Create an Unbreakable Password
  • Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer
  • Updating and Securing Google Chrome
  • Updating and Securing Internet Explorer
  • Updating and Securing Mozilla Firefox Browser
  • Updating and Securing Safari Browser
  • $7 Million Cybersecurity Scholarship by EC-Council
  • Chapter 1 Quiz

  • Why and How Hackers and Spammer are Picking You
  • How to Know if You’ve been Hacked
  • Perform a Google Search
  • How Hard it is to Target Kids Online
  • Internet Security for Kids - Part 1
  • Internet Security for Kids - Part 2
  • Internet Security for Kids - Part 3
  • Internet Security for Kids - Part 4
  • Acronyms and Abbreviations
  • How to Clean Up Your Email Account After it was Hacked
  • Google Chrome Password Manager
  • Microsoft Edge Password Manager
  • Chapter 2 quiz

  • Introduction to Enabling Advanced Security for Your Logins
  • Facebook Two-Step Verification
  • Google Two-Step Verification
  • Hotmail Two-Step Verification
  • iCloud Two-Step Verification
  • Instagram Two-Step Verification
  • Twitter Two-Step Verification
  • LinkedIn Two-Step Verification
  • How to Perform a Proper Facebook Privacy Check
  • Dangers of Quizzes and Status Updates
  • Fake Profiles and Dating Sites
  • Chapter 3 Quiz

  • How can a Child be Bullied Online
  • Signs Your Child is Being Bullied
  • Did You have the Talk with Your Child
  • Do You Really Know What Sexting is
  • Predators The Worst of the Worst
  • Chapter 4 Quiz

  • Securing Home Router Getting Started
  • Securing Your Router
  • Public Wi-Fi Safety
  • Chapter 5 Quiz

  • Introduction to Internet Scams
  • Phishing Scam
  • 419 Scams
  • Ecard Scam
  • Ransomware
  • Facebook Impersonations
  • Fake AntiVirus
  • Romance Scam
  • Travel Scam
  • Smishing Scams
  • CEO - CFO Scam
  • CRA-IRS Scam
  • Fake Tech Support Scam
  • Student Assessments
  • Chapter 6 Quiz

  • Conclusion and Final Thoughts
  • Chapter 7 Quiz
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Instructor

Terry Cutler

Information Security Leader and IoT Hacking Expert

Terry Cutler is a government-cleared cybersecurity expert (a certified ethical hacker), and the founder and Chief Executive Officer of the IT security and data defense firm Cyology Labs™ in Montréal, Canada. He specializes in the anticipation, assessment, and prevention of security breaches for governments, corporations, businesses, and consumers, as well as Internet Safety for Children. Mr. Cutler has been named as IFSEC Global’s Top 20 Most Influential People in Cybersecurity in 2018 and again in 2019. As an award-winning information security strategist for almost 20 years, Mr. Cutler has advised some of Canada’s largest companies on how to prevent and remedy internal and external security penetration. For the general public, he developed an effective online learning program arranged in modules and updated regularly to keep up with the rapidly changing digital landscape in which “wild-west” internet bandits constantly seek and find ways to break into our lives. Terry Cutler is a frequent contributor to national media reportage about cybercrime, spying, security failures, internet scams, and the real social network dangers that families and individuals face every day. Terry Cutler has coined the term Cyologist™ to describe what he does. His mission is to “help individuals and corporations protect themselves from data breaches and other online cyber threats through his videos, media appearances, coaching products and consulting services.”

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