Two things have to be true at once for you to be genuinely difficult to attack. Your accounts and devices have to be locked properly, and you have to be able to recognise someone talking you into opening them.
Either one alone leaves an obvious way in. Strong passwords don't help if you type them into a convincing fake. A sharp eye for scams doesn't help if your laptop is unencrypted in the back of a taxi.
These two tracks are the pairing that covers the overwhelming majority of real-world risk to an ordinary person.
What's in it
Privacy Foundations, Courses 01 to 05. Map your exposure, build a proper login system with a password manager and two-factor authentication, lock and encrypt every device, stop your browser broadcasting, and get your personal data pulled down from the brokers selling it.
Threats and How to Spot Them, Courses 06 to 10. Read a phishing message like someone who writes them, understand what malware actually does and how a tested backup defeats ransomware, name the psychological levers behind a con while it's happening, tell a real login page from a forgery, and hold a rehearsed recovery plan for the day something gets through.
Why this pairing specifically
Track A is the doors and locks. Track B is noticing the person trying the handles. Together they close both halves of how people actually get hurt online, which is why this is the pairing we'd point most people at if they only ever bought one thing.
The two tracks also reference each other constantly. Course 07 sends you to the backup habit, Course 09 leans on the device work from Course 03, and Course 10 assumes the login system from Course 02 exists so you have something to recover into.
Where you'll be at the end
Every account behind a unique password and a second factor. Every device locked, encrypted and findable. Your public data reduced. A working radar for scams across email, phone, text and social. A tested backup. And a written plan for the bad day. Sixty verified checkpoints across the ten courses, all of them run by you.
The maths
Ten courses at £30 each would be £300. Bought as two separate tracks it would be £150. This bundle is £120.
Details
- Format: ten downloadable PDFs, delivered by email immediately after checkout
- Total time: about ten hours, comfortably spread over a fortnight
- Series: Courses 01 to 10 of 20, GhostNet Cyber Fundamentals, Tracks A and B
- Prerequisites: none
- Works on: any device, any operating system
- Level: complete beginner, no technical background needed
Buy with confidence
30-day money-back guarantee on the whole bundle. If it isn't useful, email us within 30 days and we'll refund you in full. You don't need to give a reason.
Where to go next
The complete 20-course programme adds everyday safety and the understanding underneath it all, for £250 instead of £600.
