Security & Privacy at Work: A Practical Guide for Every Employee
Practical security and privacy training for every employee. Nine lessons — teaching and scenario simulations — that cover handling data, phishing, incident reporting, remote work, physical security, and third-party AI. Suitable for onboarding and annual refresher.
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About This Course
Security and privacy incidents most often begin with people, not systems. This practical course teaches every employee how to protect the information they handle every day customer data, credentials, files, and conversations.Through short teaching sessions and realistic scenario simulations, you'll practice handling sensitive data, spotting phishing and social engineering, responding to incidents you may have caused, working securely from home or on the road, and making safe choices about third-party services and public AI tools.Designed for both new-hire onboarding and annual refresher training, this course helps organizations meet widely-recognized workforce security awareness and privacy training expectations without vendor-specific jargon. Four focused lessons, roughly two hours total.
Course Curriculum
4 Lessons
Why Security and Privacy Matter to Your Job
Why security and privacy are everyone's job. The three shields (people, process, technology), how a single click cascades into a breach, the BEC and MFA-push-storm patterns to spot, and the reporting reflex that stops attacks early.
Handling Data with Care
Handle information with judgment: classify by harm-if-leaked, share the least that still gets the job done, retain and dispose safely, take a customer data-subject request, and make good calls about public AI tools.
Working Securely from Anywhere
Work securely from anywhere. Device hygiene, network posture in cafes and hotels, screen zones and the lock-screen habit, handling friendly strangers and badge doors, and what to do in the first fifteen minutes after a bad click.
Final Knowledge Check
Five-question knowledge check drawn from the whole course. Answer at least 4 of 5 correctly to earn your Security & Privacy Fundamentals badge.