Cybersecurity: Browser Safety - Ten Ways to Protect You and Your Organization

Cybercriminals perpetrate attacks targeting all aspects of an employee's online activity, including browser habits. These attacks often come as a result of quick, innocent mistakes that employees make, yet are devastating to organizations. In this video, we are going to explore ten different ways employees can protect themselves while they are online and how they can avoid being the weak link that cybercriminals are looking for.

Cybersecurity: Browser Safety - Ten Ways to Protect You and Your Organization

Course Objectives

Upon completion of Cybersecurity: Browser Safety - Ten Ways to Protect You and Your Organization you will be able to:

  • Examine the importance of website filtering and its role in creating a safer browsing environment, mitigating risks associated with malicious websites and their impact on personal and organizational security.
  • Assess the potential risks posed by browser extensions and add-ons and develop the ability to identify and remove unnecessary or harmful ones.
  • Implement advanced browser safety practices by understanding the significance of secure connections (HTTPS), detecting inconsistencies in website branding, verifying destination links, keeping browsers and applications up to date, and adopting secure Wi-F practices.

Seat Time: 20 min


Catagories: Cybersecurity, Employee Skills, Technology


Keywords: Technology, Cybersecurity, Web Browsing, Cyber Crime, Cyber Attacks, Computer Safety, Phishing, Hacking, Hackers, Cybercrime, Hacker, Cybercriminals, Password

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