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Course Overview

Cybercrime is on the rise, with a total of 1.2 billion dollars lost to phishing attacks in 2018 alone (IC3) with 7.3 billion dollars lost to ransomware attacks in 2019 (Emsisoft). The threat landscape has grown significantly over the years targeting large businesses, health care, school, home users, and small businesses. How do we tackle this growing problem?

This course is designed to give you the knowledge and skills to identify, mitigate, and prevent cybersecurity-related issues. The course is highly practical and designed to follow along at home.

By the end of this course, you will have a solid understanding of a wide variety of cybersecurity-related areas for home and work. 

What You Will Learn

  • How malicious hackers can turn your social media against you
  • How to identify phishing emails
  • bad links
  • etc.
  • How to prevent and recover from virus and ransomware attacks
  • How to harden your OS by patching and best practices
  • How to protect your data
  • How to protect yourself and your company

Program Curriculum

  • Getting Started with Physical Security
  • Understanding Tailgating
  • Dumpster Diving
  • Securing Your Computer
  • Physical Locks for Your Server Room
  • Chapter 1 Quiz
  • $7 Million Cybersecurity Scholarship by EC-Council

  • Best Practices for Patch Management
  • Exploring What Makes a Good Password
  • Using a Password Manager
  • Understanding Best Practices for Application Software
  • Why Is Firewall Important?
  • Staying Up-to-Date with Driver Updates
  • Chapter 2 Quiz

  • Learning Best Practices for Passwords
  • USB Safety with Examples
  • Physically Secure Important Media
  • Secure Disposal of Physical Documents and Storage Media
  • Chapter 3 Quiz

  • Importance of HTTP versus HTTPS
  • Downloading Precautions and Hash Checking
  • Looking at Fake Error Messages (Scareware)
  • Exploring Useful Browser Plugins
  • Understanding How Tor, the Onion Browser, Can Help Hide Your Internet Surfing
  • Chapter 4 Quiz

  • Introduction to Viruses
  • Understanding How Computers Can Become Infected
  • Learning Best Practices for Antivirus Software and Malware Scanners
  • What to Do If You Are Infected with Cryptoware?
  • Chapter 5 Quiz

  • Being Careful of What You Post
  • Beware of Social Engineering Quizzes
  • Identifying Bots on Twitter
  • Chapter 6 Quiz

  • Looking at End-to-end Encrypted E-mail Service
  • Do Not Use Your E-mail for Storage
  • Learning How to Identify and Find Phishing E-mails
  • Understanding Best Practices for Unusual E-mails
  • Chapter 7 Quiz

  • Importance of Protecting Your Phone
  • Best Practices for Downloading Apps
  • Looking at an Application Designed to Help Secure Your Phone
  • Understanding How to Use Sudo
  • Additional Settings
  • Chapter 8 Quiz

  • Know Your Options for Data Encryption
  • Knowing Everything about Two-Factor Authentication
  • Checking If Your Cloud Server Is Leaking Data
  • Chapter 9 Quiz

  • Getting to Know Everything about VPN
  • Changing Your DNS Connection to Avoid ISP Snooping
  • Understanding Password Reset Requests
  • Learning How to Use TorGhost
  • Chapter 10 Quiz

  • Why Backups Are Important?
  • Why We Backup Three Times?
  • Understanding Backup Methods
  • Chapter 11 Quiz
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Instructor

Jeff Minakata

Jeff Minakata has worked in the IT industry for over 22 years. He holds various cybersecurity certifications, networking certifications, and engineering certifications such as C|OSINT Certified, trained in CEH v8, CEH v9, CEH v11, CISP, Metasploit certified, Accredited Configuration Engineer (ACE), MCSI OSINT Practitioner, and CWA certified. He is an Online Instructor for OSINT, ethical hacking, and network security. He has contracted courses for EC-Council, Udemy, and has written articles for Hackin9 and eForensics magazine. Jeff currently works on the computer networking side and teaches ethical hacking, OSINT, and cybersecurity online. He is passionate about helping people understand OSINT, ethical hacking, and cybersecurity.

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