Phishing and Email Security Best Practices
by John Elliott
Attackers want to trick you into helping them by sending you malicious emails, text messages and even voice calls. This course will teach you how to spot phishing attacks and what to do afterwards.
What you'll learn
Cyber attackers target human weaknesses using malicious communications to trick people. In this course, Phishing and Email Security Best Practices, you’ll learn to recognize phishing attempts against you! First, you’ll explore why phishing works. Next, you’ll discover how to spot a phishing email. Finally, you’ll learn how to avoid advanced phishing attacks that go beyond email. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of phishing and email security needed to protect yourself and your organization.
About the author
John Elliott is a specialist in regulated security and data protection. His fascination is the way that people engage with security directives: whether that’s a company following external regulation, an information security team developing policies, an IT team following them, or a colleague who is just trying to do their job securely.
John has led information security and data protection functions in aviation and financial services. He’s represented both Visa Europe and Mastercard on the PCI S... moreecurity Standards Council, and contributed to many of the PCI standards including PCI DSS v4.
He has LLM in Information Rights Law, holds the expected information security certificates (CISSP, CISA , CRISC, CDPSE) and is a Fellow of the British Computer Society - the Chartered Institute for IT.