Novice friendly Cybersecurity Awareness training focused on viruses and malware
What you'll learn
Learn what is a computer virus and malware
Identify and classify over 20 malware programs
Learn about malware delivery methods
Forge skills that will help you how to not get infected
Understand malvertising and typosquatting attacks
Learn about defense scanners evasion
Identify phishing messages and learn good habits
Learn about dangerous file types (including .LNK exploits)
Understand behavior of real world sample of banker trojan
Requirements
No Information Technology knowledge needed. We will learn everything from zero
Computer with Windows 11 or newer operating system
Description
Being aware of cyber threats is critical for everyone in digital world. Office workers (especially non techies), seniors and young gamers without Security Awareness are easy targets for unethical hackers.Any company money spent on antivirus solutions, Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) and other defense programs will be wasted if an unaware employee will open a door for unethical hacker.This Security Awareness course is focused on computer viruses and malware. Teaching methods used here are to provide essential knowledge and brief lectures intertwined with experiments in prepared laboratory environment.Every brief lecture will build our awareness.We begin with: What is a computer virus and malware? Then we dive into malware classification (types of computer viruses).Next lecture clarifies how malware programs can break into our systems?Chapter 2. Common Malware is the heart of this course.Here we learn about malware embedded in ads, packed malware, suspicious hyperlinks and the most dangerous file extensions in Microsoft Windows.The last lecture is threat simulation of Trojan.Banker.Let us be aware and learn about the threats that we can meet. Fasten the seat belts and here we go!Important notes:You have my online assistance.I am open to record individual tutorial video for your question and add this lecture to course.I have a sore throat. Please enable text captions for better accessibility.
Who this course is for
People without advanced Information Technology (IT) knowledge
Every office worker (non techies)
Seniors who are not up to date with technology and want to use the computer more safely
All novice computer users
Homepage

https://www.udemy.com/course/security-awareness-viruses-malware/