In two of my three current university papers, I was commissioned to take cybersecurity training. But if in Kassel (where I don’t officially work anymore since the beginning of the year), the training was only one and quite compact, then at the Institute of Catalise, where I replace the head of the group, the training was four pieces and the pushy IT department bombarded me with letters reminding me I have to go through training. And you can postpone, of course, but “letters of happiness” all come and come. The last fourth of the training I have already expired for 6 days. This training is designed in such a way that all videos are very short and constantly require actions such as: “Okay, next” or “Now let’s see Lucy’s story”, etc. So even if you don’t want to listen to the same thing 20 times, how cybercriminals extort valuable information and hack into all the computers of organizations, you still have to keep a low profile, or you’re never gonna get anywhere and it’s never gonna end. All the training modules are in English and directly very accurate in terms of the ratio of videos of different nationalities, genders, clothing size and disability. Boring is a nightmare, but until you listen to and test for the minimum score (it seems more than 75%), they will not leave you alone. The only thing I liked about these trainings were the sinister cyber pictures, like, down below.
P.S. Oh yes, Kassel has also conducted several trial attacks with fake links. And if you do click on the link, you get another tutorial. In general, spam every day climbs so much that anyone should already know many signs even without attending seminars. At the same time, the post office of the Institute of Catalysis has such built-in protection filters that often important messages from colleagues from other universities fall into quarantine and do not reach the recipient at all. Many people talk about it, but nothing changes.
