Cybersecurity Awareness: Protect Your Privacy

Cybersecurity Awareness: Protect Your Privacy

1h 26mBeginner2024-03-28

Authors

Tate Jarrow

Tate Jarrow

Course details

Privacy is an often-overlooked aspect of cybersecurity, but it is a critical piece of your defense to make it harder for bad actors to harm you. In this course, Tate Jarrow teaches the importance of your personal information in your cybersecurity defense, showing you techniques to make it harder for bad actors to find and use your personal information against you. Learn how bad actors find and use your personal information to successfully conduct attacks, and how you can minimize your digital footprint to make it harder for bad actors to do this. Find out how to prevent accidental leaks of your personal information from accounts, apps, and services you use, as well as your personal devices. At the end of the course, you will have easy techniques that can be used to protect you and your families’ personal information, improving your cybersecurity posture.

Skills covered

Security AwarenessPrivacyCybersecurityDeep Dive (X:Y)

Concepts

Introduction

  • Protect your privacy

Privacy Is a Critical Part of Your Security

  • Understanding your cybersecurity crown jewels
  • Learn the key components of identity to keep private

How Bad Actors Use Your Personal Information

  • The internet is full of your personal information
  • All the ways your personal information is used against you

Reduce Your Digital Footprint

  • Minimizing your digital footprint
  • How to protect your email address
  • How to protect your phone number
  • How to protect your name

Prevent Accidental Leaks of Your Private Information

  • Check the privacy settings of your apps and accounts
  • Common pitfalls with social media to avoid

Keep Your Device Private

  • How your phone collects personal information
  • Techniques to maximize your privacy on your device

Conclusion

  • Next steps
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