Cyber Security Fundamentals For Small Businesses

Learn Cyber Security Principles to Better Protect Your Business.

What you'll learn

Students will gain a fundamental understanding of laptop and desktop physical security best practices.

Students will gain a fundamental understanding of password management, as well as best practices.

Students will gain a fundamental understanding of backups and disaster recovery options.

Students will gain a fundamental understanding of phishing and social engineering threats.

Requirements

There are no requirements or prerequisites needed for taking this course.

Description

This is a beginner level course aimed to provide people, without a technical background, basic cyber security fundamentals. Aimed to help entrepreneurs who have yet to hire anyone to take care of their IT needs, we cover best practices, how to detect scams, data protection, and more. This course is not filled with empty definitions and technical jargon, but rather framed to help non-technical small business owners secure their companies. Additionally, Cyber Security Fundamentals for Small Businesses tries to expose common weaknesses and provide general improvements to potential weak points in your systems.Domains CoveredAttack Motivators – What attracts cyber thieves to certain types of targets.Physical Security – How to better fortify your physical environments from attacks.Password Best Practices – Learn about password complexity, 2 factor authentication, and blast radius.Social Engineering 101 – The basic fundaments of not only identifying different types of social engineering attacks, but also learning to protect your business against them.Backups – How to protect your data with backups.Disaster Recovery – Plan for the unthinkable, and better position your small business in the event of a disaster.This is a unique course tailored to small business owners, whether you’ve just launched your side hustle and haven’t even made your first sale, to those who employ others and operate in store fronts or offices. Cyber Security Fundamentals for Small Businesses is targeted to help you both start from scratch or improve on your existing cyber security framework.

Overview

Section 1: Course Introduction

Lecture 1 Course Introduction

Section 2: Instructor Introduction

Lecture 2 Instructor Introduction

Section 3: Course Objectives

Lecture 3 Course Overview

Section 4: Attack Motivators

Lecture 4 Attack Motivators

Section 5: Physical Security

Lecture 5 Physical Security

Section 6: Password Best Practices

Lecture 6 Password Best Practices

Section 7: Social Engineering 101

Lecture 7 Social Engineering Introduction

Lecture 8 Phishing

Lecture 9 Vishing

Lecture 10 In Person Attacks

Lecture 11 Device Hardening

Section 8: Backups and Disaster Recovery

Lecture 12 Backups

Lecture 13 Disaster Recovery

Section 9: Thank You!

Lecture 14 Thank You!

This course is designed for small business owners, without a technical background, looking to gain basic cyber security knowledge to better protect their business.