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End User Security Awareness [Video]

By : ACI Learning, Daniel Lowrie, Don Pezet
Book Image

End User Security Awareness [Video]

By: ACI Learning, Daniel Lowrie, Don Pezet

Overview of this book

The course begins with a critical look at password security, emphasizing the importance of robust credentials in protecting personal and professional data. Then, it moves on to social engineering, showing you how hackers trick people into giving away their information. You'll learn the importance of being careful about who you trust online. Next, the course covers how to protect your computers and devices from being physically broken into. It also talks about the right way to get rid of old data so that nobody else can find it. This part is all about keeping your stuff safe in the real world. The course also looks at safe and unsafe networks. You'll learn how to check if a network is secure and what to do when using a risky one. Finally, the course dives into malicious software or malware. You'll find out what it is, how to spot it, and how to keep it from messing up your devices. By the end, you'll know how to protect yourself from a lot of the dangers on the internet, turning you from a beginner to someone who's smart about online security.
Table of Contents (1 chapters)
Chapter 1
End User Security Essentials
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Section 4
Data Disposal
In this episode, Daniel and Don explore the most secure ways of disposing of sensitive data when it is ready for garbage. Here they will look at both physical and digital forms of data disposal; using techniques like shredding, disposal services, and hard drive erasing and overwrites. They also make you aware of some best practices on data liability and data retention.