Overview

Whether you are returning to the labor force as an employee or considering starting your own business venture, safeguarding your digital footprint is essential to protecting your personal data, business operations, and career prospects. Online Safety Essentials equips participants with foundational digital hygiene skills, providing practical tools to recognize cybersecurity threats, safeguard devices, and navigate digital media responsibly.

What You Will Learn

• Digital Safety Fundamentals: Understand what online safety entails and why securing your digital presence is critical in today’s workforce.
• Identifying & Mitigating Cyber Threats: Recognize major digital threats including viruses, spyware, and password attacks and learn actionable steps to detect when a device has been compromised.
• Best Practices & Defense Strategies: Master essential habits for reducing digital risk, from creating robust, secure passwords to implementing key security DOs and DON’Ts.
• Evaluating Information & Fake News: Develop media literacy skills to spot fake news, manage emotional responses to online information, and understand how misinformation presents a unique risk to digital safety.

Course Modules

• Welcome & Introduction: Course orientation, learning outcomes, and core concepts.
• What is Online Safety & Why Does It Matter?: Defining online safety and its importance for career and business success.
• Recognizing Device Exposure: Understanding how viruses and spyware infect systems and identifying signs of a compromised device.
• Reducing Common Security Threats: Password management strategies, threat identification, and practical security rules.
• Fake News & Misinformation: Identifying misleading content, evaluating headlines critically, and managing online risks associated with fake news.