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Cybersecurity Awareness

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Course Code: YSD-505

Pillar: Digital Economy & Future Skills

Course Overview: Cybersecurity awareness protects people, devices, work, businesses, and customer trust. Learners recognise common threats and build safer habits around passwords, accounts, phishing, scams, personal information, devices, and online activity.

Practical scenarios help them prevent avoidable incidents, respond appropriately when something goes wrong, and create a realistic security plan for daily digital life and work.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Understand basic cybersecurity concepts and common digital risks.
  • Recognize phishing, scams, malware, and social engineering threats.
  • Protect passwords, accounts, devices, and personal information.
  • Apply safe online behavior in work, business, and learning.
  • Respond appropriately to suspected security incidents.
  • Create a practical personal and business cybersecurity action plan.

Target Audience: Young people preparing for employment, entrepreneurship, freelancing, digital business, online selling, remote work, or future workforce participation. Suitable for youth development programs, TVET institutions, universities, NGOs, ministries, digital skills programs, and workforce readiness initiatives.

Course Structure: 5 modules / 20 lessons.

Special Feature: Every module concludes with a Putting It All Together audio deep dive that connects the key lessons and supports reflection and practical application.

Pathway Focus: Understand Cybersecurity Awareness. Build capability in Phishing, Scams and Social Engineering. Apply learning through Incident Response and Cybersecurity Action Planning.

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Course Introduction
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  • Cybersecurity Awareness
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Foundations of Cybersecurity Awareness
Module Purpose: Introduce learners to cybersecurity, digital safety, and why young people mus... What Learners Will Explore: Learners will examine the key concepts, practical choices, youth scenarios, and real-life applications connected to this topic. Practical Application: This topic supports immediate use through reflection, planning, hands-on activities, guided exercises, and action-oriented learning.

Passwords, Accounts and Identity Protection
Module Purpose: Help learners protect online accounts, passwords, personal identity, and acce... What Learners Will Explore: Learners will examine the key concepts, practical choices, youth scenarios, and real-life applications connected to this topic. Practical Application: This topic supports immediate use through reflection, planning, hands-on activities, guided exercises, and action-oriented learning.

Phishing, Scams and Social Engineering
Module Purpose: Equip learners to recognize deceptive messages, online scams, fake offers, su... What Learners Will Explore: Learners will examine the key concepts, practical choices, youth scenarios, and real-life applications connected to this topic. Practical Application: This topic supports immediate use through reflection, planning, hands-on activities, guided exercises, and action-oriented learning.

Device, Data and Online Work Safety
Module Purpose: Help learners protect devices, files, business information, customer data, an... What Learners Will Explore: Learners will examine the key concepts, practical choices, youth scenarios, and real-life applications connected to this topic. Practical Application: This topic supports immediate use through reflection, planning, hands-on activities, guided exercises, and action-oriented learning.

Incident Response and Cybersecurity Action Planning
Module Purpose: Guide learners to respond to suspected cyber incidents, reduce harm, report i... What Learners Will Explore: Learners will examine the key concepts, practical choices, youth scenarios, and real-life applications connected to this topic. Practical Application: This topic supports immediate use through reflection, planning, hands-on activities, guided exercises, and action-oriented learning.

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