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Introduction to cyber security: stay safe online provided by OpenLearn is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 24 hours worth of material. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from OpenLearn. The course is taught in Englishand is Free Certificate. Visit the course page at OpenLearn for detailed price information.

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24 hours worth of material
Self Paced
Overview

  • This free course, Introduction to cyber security: stay safe online, will help you to understand online security and start to protect your digital life, whether at home or work. You will learn how ...

Syllabus

    • Introduction and guidance
    • Introduction and guidance
    • What is a badged course?
    • How to get a badge
    • Acknowledgements
    • Week1Week 1: Threat landscape
    • Introduction
    • 1 Online, the new frontline
    • 1.1 Talking security: the basics
    • 1.2 Obtaining Sophos Threatsaurus
    • 1.3 Cyber security attacks and phishing
    • 1.4 Examples of high profile cyber security breaches
    • 1.5 Taking stock of your information assets
    • 1.6 What are your own safeguards?
    • 2 Understanding current threats
    • 2.1 Identifying vulnerable systems
    • 2.2 How to keep up to date
    • 2.3 Staying informed
    • 3 Securing my digital information
    • 3.1 Threats to your assets
    • 4 Week 1 quiz
    • 5 Summary of Week 1
    • Further reading
    • References
    • Acknowledgements
    • Week2Week 2: Authentication
    • Introduction
    • 1 Passwords: what are they for?
    • 1.1 What happens when you enter a password?
    • 1.2 Attacking passwords
    • 1.3 Salt to protect
    • 2 Improving password security
    • 2.1 How to pick a proper password
    • 2.2 Checking the strength of a password
    • 2.3 Password managers
    • 2.4 Installing and using a password manager
    • 2.5 Alternatives to using password managers
    • 3 Two-factor authentication
    • 3.1 Setting up two-factor authentication
    • Two-factor authentication on Google
    • Two-factor authentication on Facebook
    • Other two-factor authentication services
    • 3.2 Other services supporting two-factor authentication
    • 4 Week 2 quiz
    • 5 Summary of Week 2
    • Further reading
    • Acknowledgements
    • Week3Week 3: Malware
    • Introduction
    • 1 Viruses
    • 1.1 Worms
    • 1.2 Trojans
    • 1.3 Defining terms
    • 2 How malware gets into your computer
    • 2.1 What is malware for?
    • 2.2 Phishing
    • 2.3 Trapping phishing emails
    • 2.4 Spotting a phishing email
    • 2.5 Emails are not the only phish
    • 2.6 The role of malware in click fraud
    • 2.7 Botnets
    • 2.8 Confessional
    • 3 Keeping yourself protected
    • 3.1 Antivirus software
    • 3.2 Installing antivirus software
    • 3.3 Keeping your software up to date
    • 3.4 End-of-life software
    • 3.5 Sandboxes and code signing
    • 4 Week 3 quiz
    • 5 Summary of Week 3
    • Further reading
    • References
    • Acknowledgements
    • Week4Week 4: Networking and communications
    • Introduction
    • 1 What is the internet?
    • 1.1 How data moves around the internet
    • 1.2 Introducing the datagram
    • 1.3 Datagrams on the move
    • 1.4 Wireless networks
    • 2 Is your private information really private?
    • 2.1 Network security challenges
    • 2.2 Encryption in wireless networking
    • 2.3 Using wireless networking securely
    • 3 Why we need standards on the internet
    • 3.1 Introducing the TCP/IP protocols
    • 3.2 The internet protocol and IP addresses
    • 3.3 From numbers to names
    • 3.4 The internet is not the world wide web
    • 4 Week 4 quiz
    • 5 Summary of Week 4
    • Acknowledgements
    • Week5Week 5: Cryptography
    • Introduction
    • 1 The secret of keeping secrets
    • 1.1 Plaintext and ciphertext
    • 1.2 Encryption keys
    • 1.3 The key distribution problem
    • 1.4 Asymmetric or public key cryptography
    • 1.5 Why isn’t the internet encrypted?
    • 2 Putting cryptography to use
    • 2.1 Setting up a PGP email client
    • 2.2 Sending signed and encrypted email
    • 3 Comparing different cryptographic techniques
    • 3.1 Using cryptography to prove identity
    • 3.2 Digital signatures and certificates
    • 3.3 Encrypted network connections
    • 3.4 How secure is your browsing?
    • 4 Week 5 quiz
    • 5 Summary of Week 5
    • Acknowledgements
    • Week6Week 6: Network security
    • Introduction
    • 1 Firewall basics
    • 1.1 Personal firewalls
    • 1.2 Configuring your own firewall
    • 2 VPN basics
    • 2.1 Securing the tunnels
    • 2.2 Security risks of VPN
    • 2.3 Putting VPN to work
    • 3 Intrusion detection system (IDS)
    • 3.1 IDS techniques
    • 3.2 Honeypots
    • 4 Week 6 quiz
    • 5 Summary of Week 6
    • Further reading
    • Acknowledgements
    • Week7Week 7: When your defences fail
    • Introduction
    • 1 Identity theft
    • 1.1 Loss of data
    • 1.2 Risks of data loss
    • 2 Laws and computers
    • 2.1 Data Protection
    • 2.2 The Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (IPA)
    • 2.3 The Computer Misuse Act 1990 (CMA)
    • 2.4 The Fraud Act 2006
    • 2.5 Lawful Business Practice Regulations
    • 2.6 Cyber security and the law
    • 2.7 Cyber security in the EU
    • 2.8 What laws apply in your country?
    • 3 Who should you contact?
    • 3.1 Getting your computer working again
    • Recovering from a virus or other malware
    • Recovering from accidentally deleting a file
    • Recovering from a lost computer, disk or flash memory drive containing confidential data
    • Recovering from an operating system failure
    • 3.2 Making your information less vulnerable
    • 3.3 Protecting your data for the future
    • 3.4 Backup media
    • 3.5 Remote backups
    • 3.6 Do you backup your data?
    • 3.7 Archiving data
    • 4 Week 7 quiz
    • 5 Summary of Week 7
    • Further reading
    • References
    • Acknowledgements
    • Week8Week 8: Managing security risks
    • Introduction
    • 1 Information as an asset
    • 1.1 Your own information assets
    • 1.2 Risk analysis
    • 1.3 Risk analysis in practice
    • 2 Staying safe online
    • 2.1 Fix your browser
    • 2.2 Risk management in practice
    • 2.3 Protecting your information assets
    • 2.4 What should I do next?
    • 2.5 Tracking a moving target
    • 3 What do you do now?
    • 3.1 Confessional
    • 4 End-of-course quiz
    • 5 End-of-course guide and round-up
    • 6 Next steps
    • Tell us what you think
    • Acknowledgements

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