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Security Awareness: Social Networking

by Jason Helmick

Enhanced collaboration with other employees and customers through social media can lead to a better business, but there can be serious dangers to the business, yourself, and your family. This course teaches you how to avoid social networking attacks.

What you'll learn

While social networking is a chance to share information about yourself and your family while staying connected with friends and coworkers, it also allows other people to learn about you, locate you, and know when you’re not in town. In this course, Security Awareness: Social Networking, you'll learn how to protect your business and yourself from these types of attacks. First, you'll explore how to identify social networking attacks. Next, you'll discover how to stop from falling victim when attacks occur. Finally, you'll master how to be more proactive in avoiding this type of attack. When you’re finished with this course, you'll have the skills and knowledge of security awareness needed to protect yourself in the world of social networking.

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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