A basic guide to keeping your devices secure and your digital life safe!
Free tutorial
537 students
1hr 56min of on-demand video
Created by Michael Biocchi
English
What you’ll learn
- Understand security is both physical and digital and you must use good practices to stay secure
- Understand how to stay secure online with HTTPS, MFA, cloud backups, encrypted DNS, and more
- Understand the difference between security and privacy
- Understand how to secure your communications including chatting, emails, video calls, and more
Requirements
- No previous knowledge is required to take this course.
Description
Personal Technical Security is a course that answers the question that I receive the most: “What can I do to stay secure?”
This course will discuss both physical and digital security. We’ll look at how to secure your computer, phone, router, and other devices. We’ll also explore how to keep digital life safe with password managers, backups, encrypted DNS, multifactor authentication, and how to configure your browser to stay safe.
We’ll also look at today’s communication with email, instant messaging, chatting, video, and social media. What can you do to make sure you’re safe and secure?
This course starts with the basics and gives recommendations on what you can do to stay safe.
This course is offered at a basic level and it is not a technical course. Anyone who wants to learn more about security and privacy will benefit from taking this course. You don’t need to be a computer science major to take this! The course is taught mostly through video and there are quizzes at the end of each section. The video portion of the course is around 2 hours and the whole course should take around 3 hours to complete. I’ll always be around to answer any questions you have!
Who this course is for:
- Anyone who wants to improve the security in their lives and keep their devices and data safe.
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Course content
4 sections • 13 lectures • 1h 55m total lengthCollapse all sections
Introduction1 lecture • 3min
- Introduction03:16
Physical Security5 lectures • 49min
- Introduction to Physical Security06:01
- Laptop Security15:42
- Phone Security09:26
- Device Wiping07:15
- Other11:05
Digital Security6 lectures • 52min
- Introduction to Digital Security03:29
- Password Security12:19
- Browser Security07:48
- HTTPS and Extensions10:58
- Backups09:16
- Updates08:26
Communications1 lecture • 11min
- Communication Security10:58
