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Security Awareness: Phishing - How Hackers Get Your Secrets

by Jason Helmick

Common, everyday communication, such as email, websites, and phone calls could potentially be a cybercriminal trying to lure you to expose information. This course teaches you how to protect yourself and your company from phishing attacks.

What you'll learn

Hackers (cybercriminals) will try to lure you to exposing information or installing malicious software by clicking a link or opening an attachment. In this course, Security Awareness: Phishing - How Hackers Get Your Secrets, you'll learn how to protect your business and yourself from malicious attacks. First, you'll gain the knowledge of a specific attack known as phishing. Next, you'll discover how to identify the attack and how to stop from becoming a victim to cybercriminals. Finally, you will explore how to be more proactive in avoiding this type of attack and who to notify if one is detected. When you're finished with this course, you'll have the skills and knowledge of cyber security needed to protect yourself and your company from phishing attacks.

About the author

Jason Helmick is an author for Pluralsight. His IT career spans more than 25 years or enterprise consulting on a variety of technologies, with a focus on strategic IT business planning. He’s a highly successful IT author, columnist, lecturer, and instructor, specializing in automation practices for the IT pro. Jason is a leader in the IT professional community, and serves as board member and COO/CFO of PowerShell.Org. Jason’s publications include Learn Windows IIS in a Month of Lunches, and he h... more

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