Cyber Security Awareness

This Cyber Security Awareness course explores the risks associated with Cybercrime, cyber threats, what happens when there has been a breach of security and how to protect your network from attack from cyber criminals using anti malware defences. This course will help you understand how hackers can access your system and how to keep your information and personal data safe from online fraud to help improve your internet security. You’ll find out what additional impact Artificial Intelligence (AI) is having on cyber security, and how to protect yourself from being a victim of social engineering.

This course was reviewed and updated in March 2025

Course Overview

Format

Intermediate
1 Hour
Online Study
Self-Printed Certificate

Accreditation

1 CPD Hour
CPD Certified

Course description

The Cyber Security Awareness course is a beginner’s guide to protect you or your employees from the risk that cyber criminals pose. This eLearning course will help learners understand how hackers and bots can access your system and how to keep your information and personal data safe from online fraud.

Every day, we interact on the internet without thinking about cybercrime. But cybercrime is on the rise: not a week goes by without an attack or crime being reported in the news. Whether personal data is leaked, customer accounts are compromised, key processes are blocked, or money is stolen, the impact on any business can be devastating.

No matter what size your business is, it’s important to be aware of cyber security, how it can affect everyday operations and how cybercrime can be prevented.

With cyber crime incidents are becoming increasingly common. It is possible for personal data to be leaked, customer accounts can be compromised, and there can be major financial complications that can directly affect your organisation.

This eLearning course will help learners understand how hackers and bots can access your system and how to keep your information and personal data safe from online fraud. By ensuring you and your staff complete cyber security training, you will be able to help protect your business and data effectively against cyber criminals.

Learn the skills you need to keep your organisation safe against cyber security threats. Protect against everyday risks, possible harm, understand what happens when cyber security goes wrong and how to manage the risks.

What's covered in this Cyber Security Awareness course?

Our online training course covers a wide range of topics to give learners in-depth knowledge on cyber security awareness, help learners understand how hackers and bots can access your system and how to keep your information and personal data safe from online fraud. Areas covered in this training include:

Module	What it includes
What is Cyber Security?	The course starts by explaining what cyber security is, the importance of it in the workplace and the consequences of not implementing cyber security measures. It also looks at a few famous cyber attacks and what happened to the companies involved. The opening part of the course ends with a series of audio clips to help you get inside the mind of a hacker to understand why they do it and where the threats can come from.
Cyber Threats Uncovered	Here the course explains the different cyber threats, what they are and how you can protect yourself from them. It also details the rising threat of AI by explaining the different techniques and types of threat.
Safe Digital Practices	The third part of the course explains how you can protect yourself against common online threats, including securing your social media accounts. It looks at remote working, how to protect your computer, WiFi protection, how to beat hackers, stay alert and detect AI.
GDPR and Data Protection	Keeping personal and company information private is important and in the penultimate section of the course we look at what GDPR is and its key terms, the best practices for data protection, how to control your data and advanced data protection technologies.
What to do if it goes wrong	The course ends with looking at what to do if you fall victim to a cyber attack and suffer a data breach and the importance of future proofing your cyber security practices.

Why take this course?

Upon completion of this cyber security course learners will be able to reduce every day risks and understand the possible harm that can be caused using real life examples. You will gain a working understanding of the stats and information around cyber security, including the different types of malicious software.

Target Audience

This cyber security training course is aimed at employees who use devices to store data or connect to the internet in their day-to-day role. This course will help employees protect their organisations from cyber crimes.

The course is suitable for anyone who works with a computer at some point in their working role.

Assessment and certificate

The end of course assessment consists of 14 multiple choice questions. Learners are required to achieve a 80% pass mark, and can attempt the test as many times as is required.

If learners do not achieve the pass mark, further attempts may be given by contacting our support team.

Learners will be able to download a CPD certified Cyber Security Awareness training digital certificate on completion.

Course duration

This course will take approximately one hour to complete. As an e-learning course you can complete this training in convenient stages. The learning management system will automatically record your progress throughout so the training can be completed at your convenience.

Entry requirements

There are no entry requirements for this course.

You will learn

Explain the basics of cyber security and why it's important in today's digital age

Distinguish between different types of cyber threats, describe their operation, and apply methods to protect against them

Demonstrate safe browsing practices to guard against online threats, including securing social media accounts

Evaluate cyber threats, particularly emerging threat such as AI, and apply defensive strategies to counteract these evolving risks in line with policy

Articulate the importance of data protection and outline the essentials of GDPR compliance