Cyber Security Awareness Training Reviews

This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars

Good to be reminded of all aspects of cyber security

Overall this is a good broad view of cyber security. However, this course perpetuates the idea that viruses can be spread by simply opening a web page. This is very unlikely to occur, provided systems are kept up-to-date with security patches. Even then tricks like Meltdown and Spectre are difficult to exploit and especially difficult to automatically orchestrate to the extent of installing code. If a person does inadvertently click a link and gets a pop-up advertising pills, it's very unlikely that it will lead to a virus being installed and provided all machines have all the requisite security patches and virus updates, even if a virus were to get on the machine its ability to spread would be limited. Additionally, the ghostly apparition turning up to get a serial number from a server was able to walk straight into a server room which had the door left wide open, and no obvious security