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A workplace-first cyber awareness course for office staff, managers and anyone who works with money, customers or sensitive data. Covers the modern threat landscape, social engineering across email, SMS, voice and QR, AI-powered attacks and deepfake fraud, passwords and multi-factor authentication, SIM swap and mobile banking fraud (a uniquely South African problem), insider risk and workplace data handling, home network and personal device hygiene and what to do in the first minutes after a security incident. Eight modules with South African case studies and a written workplace cyber plan as the capstone.
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Why cyber awareness matters in 2026, who actually attacks South African workplaces, the local threat picture (Transnet, Postbank, TransUnion, R3.9bn in banking fraud) and how one bad click turns into a business-shaping incident.
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The six levers attackers pull, the four phishing modes (email, SMS, voice, QR), business email compromise and the verification habit that stops all of them. Anchored on SA cases: SARS eFiling phishing, Eskom load shedding scams, the major banks' impersonation campaigns and the property conveyancing BEC pattern.
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What changed between 2022 and 2026 to make social engineering an industrial-scale problem. Voice cloning explained. Deepfake video meetings (the $25 million Arup Hong Kong case). Hyper-personalised AI phishing. The defences that still work when the voice on the call is convincingly the CEO and the video looks real.
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Why passwords still matter, why reuse is the single most exploited weakness in 2026, the case for a password manager, the multi-factor authentication hierarchy (SMS to TOTP to hardware to passkeys), what passkeys actually are and why they win and how to set up account recovery before you need it.
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South Africa's uniquely brutal mobile fraud picture: R5.3 billion in telecom fraud per year, SIM swap as 60% of mobile banking fraud, twin SIM and port-out variants, the universal rules of what your bank will never ask, money mule recruitment that turns ordinary workers into accidental criminals and the first 60 seconds when you realise your number has been hijacked.
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The workplace-first spine of this course. The three types of insider (malicious, negligent, compromised), why insider incidents cost more than external ones (Ponemon \$16.2M average), shadow IT and the AI-tool data leak wave, the physical layer (tailgating, USB drops, clean desks), workplace data classification and handling and the five habits that survive a bad day.
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Your home is now part of your work perimeter. The router as the new front door, the twenty-minute hardening job that fixes most of the risk, public Wi-Fi traps (evil twin, captive portals, juice jacking) with what VPNs actually do, the IoT problem (Mirai botnet as canonical case, smart cameras and TVs and doorbells) and personal device hygiene (encryption, updates, Find My Device, lost-device response, family accounts).
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The capstone module. The first-hour playbook when an incident hits, POPIA notification in practice, what comes after the incident (lessons learned, cyber culture, leadership) and the framework for writing your one-page workplace cyber plan. The PROJECT capstone is a 6-step written deliverable: a workplace cyber plan you can pin to the wall plus a personal addendum.
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