Cybersecurity Awareness & Best Practices

Overview

Develop the essential cybersecurity skills used by frontline defenders: identifying threats, hardening systems, safe browsing, password hygiene, phishing response and entry-level incident response.

What you'll learn

• Threat landscape and attacker mindset
• Phishing analysis, MFA and password managers
• Endpoint protection and patch management
• Incident response playbooks and triage
• Compliance basics (ISO 27001, NIST CSF, GDPR)

Outcomes

• Identify and report phishing, social engineering and malware
• Write a simple incident report and runbook
• Qualify for Cybersecurity Awareness and Compliance-Support roles

Syllabus

1. Threat Landscape

   Week 1–2

   Attack types, actors, motivations.

2. Hardening Fundamentals

   Week 3–4

   OS hardening, patching, least privilege.

3. Phishing & Social Eng.

   Week 5–6

   Detection, analysis, user training.

4. Incident Response Lab

   Week 7–9

   Triage tabletop and real log analysis.

5. Compliance Primer

   Week 10–12

   Controls mapping, policies, evidence.