Cybersecurity Awareness: Protect Your Privacy

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.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Protect your privacy

1. Privacy Is a Critical Part of Your Security

02 - Understanding your cybersecurity crown jewels
03 - Learn the key components of identity to keep private

2. How Bad Actors Use Your Personal Information

04 - The internet is full of your personal information
05 - All the ways your personal information is used against you

3. Reduce Your Digital Footprint

06 - Minimizing your digital footprint
07 - How to protect your email address
08 - How to protect your phone number
09 - How to protect your name

4. Prevent Accidental Leaks of Your Private Information

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

5. Keep Your Device Private

12 - How your phone collects personal information
13 - Techniques to maximize your privacy on your device

Conclusion

14 - Next steps

Cybersecurity Awareness: Protect Your Privacy

Authors

Tate Jarrow