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Free security course
Stay a step ahead of the scams.
The attacks that hit small businesses are not that many, and they are not that clever. Learn to spot them in a few short lessons, each with a quick quiz. Free, plain English, and no sign-up.
We would rather you never needed us for a security clean-up. So here is the same plain guidance we give our own clients, free and in the open. Work through it in any order, and the course quietly remembers where you got to on this device.
8 lessons · about 40 minutes in total · a short quiz on each.
- 1Phishing: the fake emailA scam email that pretends to be someone you trust, to get you to click, log in, or hand over information.5 min read
- 2Smishing and vishing: scam texts and callsThe same tricks as phishing, delivered by text message (smishing) or phone call (vishing) instead of email.4 min read
- 3Invoice fraud and business email compromiseA scammer poses as a supplier, a boss, or a colleague to redirect a genuine payment into their own account.6 min read
- 4Ransomware: your files held hostageMalicious software that locks or encrypts your files, then demands a payment to release them.5 min read
- 5Weak passwords and reusePasswords that are easy to guess, or reused across sites, so one leak unlocks many accounts.5 min read
- 6Multi-factor authentication (MFA)A second check on top of your password, so a stolen password alone is not enough to get in.5 min read
- 7Social engineering: hacking the humanManipulating people, rather than computers, into giving access, information, or money.5 min read
- 8Keeping data out of public AI toolsSensitive business or customer information pasted into free chatbots, where you no longer control it.5 min read
Want this run for your whole team?
We run safe phishing tests and short, no-jargon training so your staff learn the tells together, privately, with no naming and shaming. It is the fastest way to make a business harder to fool.