Security Awareness Topics

Below is the list of all security awareness topics

📄️ Anti-Malware Software

You probably have antivirus on your laptop or devices to help detect and quarantine for malware and other malicious content. For online businesses anti malware tools and software need to be placed on your website.

📄️ latest software and technologies

It is recommended to ensure software and technologies are kept up to date on devices and websites to reduce the risk of your websites being exposed to a disclosed or zero day vulnerability.

📄️ Malware

What is it?

📄️ OWASP Top Ten

The OWASP Foundation is a non profit foundation that works to improve security of software. Every three to four years they release their OWASP Top Ten which details what they consider the 10 most critical security risks to web applications.

📄️ Phishing

This is a cyber attack to deceive individuals (like you) into revealing sensitive and confidential information, such as usernames, passwords, card numbers, etc; which can be typically associated with someone pretending to be an individual or company of trust such as a bank, government etc. Information gathered can be used for malicious intent such as and not limited to; financial fraud, unauthorised access to accounts and data.

📄️ Regular Website Backups

It is good practice to ensure you make regular backups of your website, in the event something happened to your website will make it easier for you to recover your website or business.

📄️ Monitoring your website regularly

Ensure you have some form of security software on your website that will help you to monitor and detect any changes made to your website and potentially bad traffic, such as;

📄️ Web-based Attacks

Attacks can be carried out by exploiting vulnerabilities in web servers, applications, and browsers to steal data, disrupt services or gain unauthorised access to steal data.

📄️ Access to your website

Ensure you use strong passwords or passphrases on each account that has access to your data