Courseware for Security Noobs

By David Strom
ReadWriteWeb.com
November 22, 2011

If you are looking for a basic but solid course on how to teach your entire staff the essentials of good email security and how to avoid common phishing attacks, you might want to look at the education package offered by Wombat Security Technologies. The series can be accessed by any Web browser and has some solid pedagogy behind it.

The operating word here is basic: you aren't going to get any of the industry security certifications here. If you need to educate your mailroom and loading dock workers and even some aging executives about cyber security, then this is the program for you.

There are five current courses: Email security, password selection, Anti-phishing games and how to practice safe social networking. Each course shouldn't take more than an hour, and many can be completed in far less time. All of them are very practical-based, grounded in the daily realities of trying to keep your computer safe from prying malware botnets and phony organ-enhancement pill offers. Or the scam spam that I got this morning as I was writing this article...

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