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Personal Technical Security: How to keep yourself safe (Udemy.com)

A basic guide to keep your devices secure and your digital life safe!

Created by: Michael Biocchi

Last updated September 2021

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What you will learn

  • Understand security is both physical and digital and you must use good practices to stay secure
  • Understand how to stay secure online with HTTPS, MFA, cloud backups, encrypted DNS, and more
  • Understand the difference between security and privacy
  • Understand how to secure your communications including chatting, emails, video calls, and more

How it compares

Against the other 1,107 rated Udemy courses in Personal Development on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 34% of them
  • Reviews97#886 of 1,108 by number of reviews
  • Length1.9 hoursshorter than 60% of them
  • Last updatedSeptember 2021earlier than 75% of them

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Course Description

Personal Technical Security is a course that answers the question that I receive the most: "What can I do to stay secure?"

This course will discuss both physical and digital security. We'll look at how to secure your computer, phone, router, and other devices. We'll also explore how to keep digital life safe with password managers, backups, encrypted DNS, multifactor authentication, and how to configure your browser to stay safe.

We'll also look at today's communication with email, instant messaging, chatting, video, and social media. What can you do to make sure you're safe and secure? 

This course starts with the basics and gives recommendations on what you can do to stay safe.

This course is offered at a basic level and it is not a technical course. Anyone who wants to learn more about security and privacy will benefit from taking this course. You don't need to be a computer science major to take this! The course is taught mostly through video and there are quizzes at the end of each section. The video portion of the course is around 2 hours and the whole course should take around 3 hours to complete. I'll always be around to answer any questions you have!

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Instructor Details

Michael Biocchi

Dr. Michael Biocchi has his PhD, Masters of Science, as well as his Bachelor of Computer Science. Dr. Biocchi is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and teaches university courses on a variety of Computer Science topics.

Security and Privacy is a major concern, especially with using today's technologies. Many workplaces are adopting new technologies and policies but are not taking into account the security and privacy concerns that may arise. Dr. Biocchi is looking to expand the knowledge and correct the misconceptions people have about internet security and privacy.

He has also written a book titled "A Brief Guide to Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plans" to go along with the Udemy course under the same name. You can order his book from Amazon as well as his fictional crime novels (Criminal, PhD, The List of 11, and more)


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Reviews

4.5

97 ratings on Udemy

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By Brittany Davis on 3/26/2025

This is really boring

By Avinash on 2/19/2025

The info was good but it was pretty basic.

By Solomon Kane on 9/17/2024

Solid, basic information with practical implementation steps viewers can follow without having more than average tech expertise.

By Jan Apole Talaboc on 4/9/2024

The course is very informative about personal security using the web. It explains a lot of things you can use in daily life. Actually, I have learned a lot from this course on how to improve privacy and security when using the internet.

By Danny Achmad on 1/28/2024

Its a good match. Thanks!

By Nicola DeCarlo II on 11/1/2023

Wow! I wasn’t expecting this! Data wipes,dumps, reboots, and options outside of just using a vpn! Thank you!

By Krzysztof Skomra on 3/27/2023

I would like to express my special gratitude for an extremely interesting and useful training material that you have provided on the Udemy platform. Your course was not only inspiring, but also very practical and well-organized, which allowed me to effectively acquire the necessary knowledge. At the same time, I would like to ask if there is a possibility to change the course settings so that after its completion, it would be possible to generate a completion certificate available on Udemy.com? Such a document would be very valuable to me, as I could use it as confirmation of my skills in the given area. Once again, I would like to thank you for dedicating your time and effort to creating this course. I greatly appreciate your commitment and hope to have the opportunity to participate in further trainings.

By Terry Bauer on 10/12/2021

Wonderful! Clear, concise, and informative!

By Rosa Lloyd on 10/7/2021

Amazing so far! I'm learning a lot!

By Kperry on 10/3/2021

This course was awesome, it had a lot of really great information that makes me feel more confident in making myself protected. It was clear and easy to understand. I really hope he keeps making more videos. Really great style of teaching!

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Overall Score : 90 / 100