End User Email Security
Course Content
This course is designed with avid email end-users in mind, and serves as the ideal starting point for anyone looking to enter the cyber security field and ultimately raise their threat awareness. What will I learn? How to recognize malicious emails, the biggest dangers when using email and email best practices.
In an enterprise environment, email usage is second nature. Because of this, email security is often overlooked. Hackers use that to their advantage through phishing and other techniques, whereby many employees have unintentionally opened themselves or their organization up to vulnerabilities. This course is designed with avid email end-users in mind and serves as the ideal starting point for anyone looking to enter the cyber security field and ultimately raise their threat awareness. With a focus on email addresses, emails, links and attachments, you will realize which pieces of information are personally identifiable and can be used against you. Most importantly, you will learn how to recognize malicious emails, the two biggest dangers when using email, and gain email best practices to help you better follow company policy.
Course Goals
By the end of this course, students should be able to:Instructed by
I am seasoned IT professional with more than two decades of experience. I have been working as IT journalist, reviewing and testing hardware and software. I have worked as a pre-sales consultant for 15 years. I worked on small to very large projects in various industries and countries. At one point I was sole pre-sales contact for almost 20 countries and over 500 customers. I have been working in Hewlett Packard and HP Inc. as a specialist for printers and printing solutions as well as for PCs and PC solutions. I have substantial experience in solution selling. I also worked as an HP Supplies Trainer. I help customers and channel partners understand the benefits in using original supplies.
I am known for finding ways to teach complex concepts and technological solutions for people that do not have an IT background. I am rather famous for my car metaphors, which I have chosen as something that almost everybody understands.
After 15 years of working for a large company, I have decided to go independent and pursue my professional interests as independent consultant, with emphasis on security consulting.
