Phishing Awareness Training Course
Learn common phishing tactics and warning signs and how to respond to and report phishing
Phishing Awareness Course Description
This course is designed to help your organization and staff understand the common goals and strategies found within phishing campaigns and how to proactively identify red flags and phishing indicators within email messages.
- Target Audience: All faculty/staff
- Course Length: 25 minutes
Phishing Awareness Course Learning Objectives
With three separate modules focused on phishing, including common phishing tactics and strategies for preventing, CampusGuard’s phishing training can be used to educate users ongoing.
The modules are often utilized as reinforcement training following a phishing incident or test.
Phishing Awareness Course Modules
Our Phishing Awareness course is designed with micro-learning modules, making the content easier to retain. You can choose to launch the training all at once or roll it out throughout the year to fit your team’s schedule.
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What is Phishing?
This introductory module provides users with the tools to proactively identify potential phishing emails and prevent the accidental disclosure of sensitive information. Training objectives include:- Understanding why phishing is so prevalent
- Reinforcing the consequences of phishing
- Learning common phishing risks and trends
- Identifying common red flags and best practices for reporting phishing
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Rules for Spotting Phishing
This training module will share current and evolving phishing tactics, as well as recommended best practices and rules to implement into your daily email routine. Stepping learners through 10 key rules to help identify and prevent phishing, this module can be used to improve staff awareness, or as reinforcement training following a simulated phishing exercise. -
Phishing Practice
This module will highlight common phishing tricks used by cyber criminals. Learners will test their knowledge by reviewing example phishing notifications and practice identifying potential warning signs.
Our Latest Phishing Course Updates
We update all courses annually to reflect evolving risks and requirements. The latest updates to our Phishing Awareness course include:
- A new navigation menu and instructions for training
- Updated statistics on phishing and user engagement
- Lessons learned from data breaches involving phishing as the initial attack vector
- Common phishing lures and tactics
- Education around evolving phishing attacks, including:
- Agent Tesla
- Supply Chain Phishing
- Phone-based Vishing
- Text-based Smishing
- QR Code Phishing
- Social media scams
- Increase in AI Phishing threats, including Deepfake phishing
- End-user awareness and prevention
- Examples to test user’s ability to identify red flags
Explore our other courses
Explore our full course library to find training that fits your needs, from security awareness and compliance essentials to specialized topics designed to support your role and responsibilities. Whether you’re looking to strengthen your cybersecurity posture, stay up to date with industry regulations, or broaden your knowledge, we’ve got you covered.
Strategies to Avoid Phishing Attacks
Phishing persists as one of the most widespread and effective cyber threats, with over eight billion spam emails circulating daily in the United States.
It’s reported that 94% of organizations reported experiencing phishing attacks.
In this video, we define the different types of phishing attacks and how to spot them.
Access Our Resource Library and Threat Intel News
All Phishing Awareness Course users also have access to our Resource Library, which offers supplemental materials that support the course content.
Our Threat Intel Briefing newsletter is sent directly to your inbox twice a month, and features the latest cyber threats, cyber crimes, and vulnerabilities happening now around the globe.
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Phishing Awareness Frequently Asked Questions
Phishing awareness training teaches employees how to recognize, avoid, and report phishing attacks, or malicious attempts to steal sensitive information through deceptive emails, texts, or websites.
Phishing is one of the most common and effective cyberattack methods. A single successful attempt can lead to significant data breaches, financial loss, or reputational damage. Training empowers employees to become the first line of defense.
All employees, contractors, and anyone with access to company systems or data should participate in phishing awareness training, regardless of their role.
Best practice is at least once a year, with additional refresher sessions or simulated phishing campaigns run quarterly or monthly to keep employees alert.
CampusGuard's Phishing Awareness training includes:
- Real-world phishing examples and evolving tactics used
- Red flags to watch for in emails (urgent language, suspicious links, misspellings, etc.)
- Safe practices for handling attachments and links
- Reporting procedures for suspicious messages
- Simulated phishing exercises, and more
Metrics include phishing test click rates, report rates, reduction in repeat offenders, and overall improvement in detection over time.
Yes! Organizations that consistently train and test employees report significant reductions in successful phishing incidents and quicker reporting times when attacks do occur.
Yes. Standards such as PCI DSS, HIPAA, and NIST require security awareness training, which often includes phishing.