Cybersecurity at Work: Stay Safe Online (For Employees)

Cybersecurity at Work: Stay Safe Online (For Employees)

Welcome to this beginner-friendly, stress-free, and practical course on keeping yourself and your organization safe from modern online and technology threats. This training is taught by a certified cybersecurity professional (CySA+, Security+, CASP) with over 10 years of real-world experience.

Every year, companies around the world lose billions of dollars because of one small employee mistake – a link clicked, a file downloaded, a password reused, or an email with sensitive information sent to the wrong person. These are just a few examples of small security mistakes that turn into big problems.

Don’t let yourself and your organization become a victim of these mistakes that hackers, scammers, and cyber criminals capitalize on. Security isn’t just an IT problem anymore, it’s everyone employees responsibility to do their part to practice proper workplace security habits.

What You’ll Get From This Course

• Understand why security awareness matters and how one mistake can lead to major losses and damage to your organization
• Learn the most common workplace threats including phishing, smishing, malware, ransomware, unsafe downloads, data leaks, and social engineering
• Protect yourself and company data with step-by-step best practices for email safety, password strength, MFA/2FA, and secure device use
• Recognize insider threats within organizations and the early warning signs
• Avoid common social media mistakes so you can prevent sharing or exposing sensitive information
• Build security-first daily habits for in-office, remote and hybrid work to ensure you safely access company resources no matter where you are
• Understand the importance of incident reporting including why early reporting matters

Meet Your Instructor

My name is Nick Mendez (Nicholas Mendez), and I’ll be your instructor.

I’m a project manager and cybersecurity professional with over 10 years of experience. I hold more than 10+ industry certifications including CySA+, Security+, CASP and other cyber security certifications. I’m also the founder of TeachMeIT and the author of PMP Exam Prep: The Ultimate All-In-One Study Book.

I’ve seen hundreds of workplace security incidents take place, and I’m confident I can teach you how to best prevent these security incidents from happening in your organization. In this course my goal is simple: I’ll teach you the everyday habits that you can use to protect yourself, your work accounts, devices, and company data while working. By the end of this training, you’ll know exactly how to spot phishing emails, avoid scams, protect your work devices, and make better decisions that keep your data and your organization secure.

Are You Ready?

Get started by enrolling today and begin the process of building the habits that you need to keep yourself safe at work.

Important Notes

• This is not a technical course, it’s friendly for everyone and is not for advanced cyber security.
• This course is a beginner-friendly overview of workplace security awareness for employees.
• This course teaches the basics of workplace security – but always consult your IT and cybersecurity departments, internal company security policies and HR policies, and any other organizational guidance for anything you’re unsure of.
• All content is regularly updated to reflect new trends and best practices in workplace security.