One click on a phishing email, or one weak password, can be all a criminal needs. In this short animated course, you’ll follow Sam as a single mistake locks his organisation’s systems and puts colleagues’ personal data at risk.

You’ll see how cybercrime hits businesses through lost time, recovery costs, damaged reputations and job losses, and how stolen data can lead to fraud and identity theft. The course ends with three habits that help prevent attacks and limit the damage: stop, check and report.

Learning objectives

• Describe how a phishing email or weak password can lead to a cyber attack
• Identify the consequences of cybercrime for organisations and individuals
• Explain what to do with a suspicious message, including after you’ve clicked

A five-minute refresher on the consequences of cybercrime, best used to reinforce full cyber security training or as a quick introduction to the risks during induction. It focuses on what happens after an attack and the stop, check, report habit, so it supports detailed phishing or password training rather than replacing it.