Cybersecurity Workplace Skills

Security Awareness Training for Non-Technical Staff

Practical cyber safety habits for everyday workplace decisions

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Quick Course Facts
18
Self-paced, Online, Lessons
18
Videos and/or Narrated Presentations
6.0
Approximate Hours of Course Media
About the Security Awareness Training for Non-Technical Staff Course

Security Awareness Training for Non-Technical Staff is a practical Cybersecurity course designed to help employees make safer decisions during everyday work. Students learn how to recognize common threats, protect sensitive information, and build Practical cyber safety habits for everyday workplace decisions without needing technical expertise.

Build Stronger Cybersecurity Habits At Work

  • Learn how attackers target non-technical staff through phishing, impersonation, urgency, and payment fraud.
  • Practice safer account habits with passphrases, password managers, multi-factor authentication, and secure logins.
  • Understand how to handle company and customer data responsibly across email, cloud tools, devices, and remote work.
  • Know when and how to report suspicious activity, mistakes, or potential Cybersecurity incidents with confidence.

This course teaches practical Cybersecurity awareness skills for safer everyday workplace behavior.

Through clear, jargon-free lessons, this Security Awareness Training for Non-Technical Staff course explains why Cybersecurity matters in every role. Students explore how real-world attacks often begin with ordinary workplace moments, such as opening an email, scanning a QR code, sharing a file, approving a payment request, or logging in from a new device.

The course focuses on Practical cyber safety habits for everyday workplace decisions, including spotting phishing emails and fake alerts, recognizing social engineering pressure tactics, checking links and attachments, and reducing the risk of business email compromise. Students also learn how to use passwords, passphrases, password managers, and multi-factor authentication more effectively.

Beyond accounts and email, students gain practical guidance for protecting sensitive company and customer information, using collaboration tools safely, working remotely, securing laptops and phones, and managing physical security risks in offices, meetings, travel, and shared spaces.

By the end of the course, students will be better prepared to notice warning signs, pause before risky actions, protect information responsibly, and report concerns early. They will leave with stronger Cybersecurity judgment and safer habits they can apply immediately in daily workplace decisions.

Course Lessons

Full lesson breakdown

Lessons are organized by topic area and each includes descriptive copy for search visibility and student clarity.

Foundations of Everyday Cyber Risk

3 lessons

This lesson introduces why security awareness matters for every employee, not just IT or security teams. It explains how everyday workplace choices can protect or expose company data, customer trust, …

Lesson 2: How Attackers Target Non-Technical Staff

20 min
This lesson explains why attackers often focus on non-technical employees instead of trying to break through technical defenses first. Learners will see how everyday workplace roles, routines, trust r…

Lesson 3: Security Responsibilities Without Technical Jargon

17 min
This lesson establishes what security responsibility means for non-technical staff without relying on technical jargon. Learners will connect everyday workplace choices, such as handling email, sharin…

Spotting Social Engineering

4 lessons

Lesson 4: Recognizing Phishing Emails and Fake Alerts

22 min
This lesson teaches non-technical staff how to recognize phishing emails, fake login prompts, and alarming security alerts before they lead to account compromise or financial loss. Learners will pract…

Lesson 5: Impersonation, Urgency, and Pressure Tactics

20 min
This lesson teaches employees how social engineers use impersonation, urgency, and pressure to override normal judgment. Learners practice slowing down, checking identity through trusted channels, and…

Lesson 6: Suspicious Links, Attachments, and QR Codes

19 min
This lesson teaches non-technical staff how to evaluate suspicious links, attachments, and QR codes before interacting with them. Learners practice slowing down, checking context, inspecting destinati…

Lesson 7: Business Email Compromise and Payment Fraud

23 min
Business Email Compromise is a payment fraud tactic where criminals impersonate executives, vendors, customers, or internal employees to trick staff into sending money, changing bank details, buying g…

Protecting Accounts

3 lessons

Lesson 8: Passwords, Passphrases, and Password Managers

21 min
This lesson teaches non-technical staff how to protect workplace accounts with stronger passwords, memorable passphrases, and password managers. It focuses on practical choices employees make every da…

Lesson 9: Using Multi-Factor Authentication Properly

18 min
Multi-factor authentication, or MFA, protects workplace accounts by requiring something more than a password before access is granted. This lesson explains how non-technical staff should use MFA corre…

Lesson 10: Safe Login Habits and Account Recovery

19 min
This lesson teaches non-technical staff how to make safer login decisions, reduce account takeover risk, and recover accounts without accidentally helping an attacker. It focuses on practical habits: …

Protecting Information

3 lessons

Lesson 11: Handling Sensitive Company and Customer Data

22 min
This lesson teaches non-technical staff how to recognize, handle, share, store, and dispose of sensitive company and customer data in everyday work. It focuses on practical decisions: what counts as s…

Lesson 12: Safe File Sharing, Cloud Storage, and Collaboration Tools

21 min
This lesson teaches practical habits for safely sharing files, using cloud storage, and collaborating in common workplace tools. Learners focus on everyday decisions: choosing the right sharing method…

Lesson 13: Privacy, Confidentiality, and Data Minimization

20 min
This lesson teaches non-technical staff how to protect workplace information by applying privacy, confidentiality, and data minimization in everyday decisions. Learners will distinguish between person…

Working Safely Anywhere

3 lessons

Lesson 14: Device Security for Laptops, Phones, and Tablets

20 min
This lesson teaches practical device security habits for laptops, phones, and tablets used at work, at home, and while traveling. Learners will focus on locking devices, keeping software updated, prot…

Lesson 15: Remote Work, Public Wi-Fi, and Travel Risks

19 min
This lesson teaches practical safety habits for working away from the office, including at home, in hotels, airports, coffee shops, client sites, and while traveling. Learners will understand why remo…

Lesson 16: Clean Desk, Printing, Meetings, and Physical Security

18 min
This lesson explains how everyday physical habits protect workplace information: keeping desks clear, handling printed material carefully, using meeting spaces safely, and staying alert to physical ac…

Reporting and Response

2 lessons

Lesson 17: What to Do When Something Seems Wrong

21 min
When something seems wrong, speed and clarity matter more than certainty. This lesson teaches non-technical staff how to recognize common warning signs, stop risky actions, preserve useful information…

Lesson 18: Responding to Mistakes and Building Safer Habits

20 min
This lesson teaches staff what to do after a security mistake, suspicious interaction, or possible policy slip. It emphasizes fast reporting, calm containment, accurate details, and learning from the …
About Your Instructor
Professor Victor Zane

Professor Victor Zane

Professor Victor Zane guides this AI-built Virversity course with a clear, practical teaching style.