Cybersecurity Awareness for Employees of Educational Institutions: End-User Best Practices

The employees who use an organization’s technological systems, called end users, can make or break a cybersecurity system. By the end of this course, end users will be able to identify insecure hot spots in public places and the risks involved in roaming, differentiate between free and commercial VPN tunnels, recognize legitimate and secure websites, explain the importance of administrative rights, select the correct method to stop the spread of a virus, recommend ways to protect against malwares and viruses, list the do’s and don’ts of password creation, name solutions for password management, and define different types of physical attacks against privacy and provide solutions to mitigate this risk.