Learn how to identify phishing emails, fake links, and online scams before they create risk. This course helps employees protect company data, avoid cyber threats, and follow safe digital practices at work.
Created by Sustainable Futures Trainings Experts
This Phishing Awareness and Defence Training Course is designed to help learners understand, identify, and respond effectively to phishing threats. The course provides practical knowledge of how phishing attacks work, how fraudulent emails are constructed, and how cybercriminals use social engineering techniques such as urgency, fear, authority, and curiosity to manipulate users.
Learners will develop the ability to recognize suspicious sender addresses, misleading links, unexpected attachments, unusual requests, and other common warning signs of phishing emails. The course also introduces simple verification techniques that can be applied before clicking links, opening attachments, or sharing sensitive information.
In addition to individual awareness, the course explains how organizations should respond to phishing incidents through clear roles and responsibilities. It covers the involvement of employees, managers, IT security teams, CISOs, senior leadership, HR, and legal teams in detecting, reporting, containing, and managing phishing threats.
The course also introduces preventive measures such as security awareness training, email filtering, multi-factor authentication, phishing simulations, and incident response procedures. By the end of the course, learners will be better equipped to make safer decisions, report suspicious activity promptly, and contribute to a stronger organizational cybersecurity culture.
You will learn to:
Phishing Awareness
Understand what phishing is and how attackers use fake emails, links, messages, and websites to mislead users.
Email Safety
Learn how to identify suspicious senders, unsafe attachments, fake login pages, and warning signs in emails.
Safe Browsing
Recognize unsafe websites, fake forms, and risky links before entering personal or company information.
Password Protection
Follow good password habits and understand the importance of strong passwords and multi-factor authentication.
Data Protection
Learn how to protect company, customer, and personal information from cyber threats and unauthorized access.
Incident Reporting
Understand what steps to take when you receive a suspicious email or identify a possible phishing attempt.
Real-Life Scenarios
Practice awareness through common workplace examples of phishing, online scams, and cyber fraud.
Cyber Safety Habits
Build daily digital safety habits to reduce human-error-related security risks in the workplace.
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