Email (Privacy)
This training helps you understand why email, although convenient, is one of the most common causes of data breaches. You will learn how everyday email habits – like hitting ‘reply all’, forwarding messages, or misusing Cc and Bcc – can accidentally expose information and have negative consequences.
Course Topics
Lesson 1) The Risks of Email Communication
Every single email has the potential to compromise information if handled poorly. Therefore it is important to stay mindful of how you manage the contents of your emails and beware of whom you are sending them to.
Lesson 2) Email Content Management
In this lesson, the employee will learn how managing email content, like attachments, comments, and links, helps keep information safe.
Lesson 3) Email Sending Practices
This lesson covers best practices for sending emails to avoid unintended data breaches. The employee will learn about the risks of using the reply all feature, Cc and Bcc fields, and the dangers of relying on autocomplete for recipient email addresses.
Email (Privacy)
Anyone who relies on email at work will benefit from this training.
- Cyber Security
- 5 mins
- 3 Lessons
- 3 Quizzes
Related Courses
Email (Phishing)
Email (Policies)
Data Protection Principles
- As required by
- GDPR
- ISO27001
- NIS2
- AI Act
- CIS18
- NIST-CSF
Awareness trainings make you compliance-ready while also improving the security awareness in your organisation. To establish a security culture your organisation must work programmatically with technical and organisational elements.
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