Security Awareness Training

106 - Safe Surfing

The number of people now accessing the internet - both at home and at work - is staggering. But few of them seem to realize that they are connecting themselves to a huge, unregulated and insecure computer network. And that brings with it a large number of risks.

This course is designed to give students an appreciation of the risks yet to show them that commonsense security measures can reduce the overall danger to an acceptable level. It covers the following topics:

• The main threats when surfing the Internet.
• Watching where you surf.
• Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).
• Updating your software.
• Script controls.
• Antivirus software and downloads.