Practical Cybersecurity Awareness for the Modern Workplace
In this Bigger Brains course, you’ll learn how cybercriminals capture attention and exploit everyday business behaviors—and how to stop them before damage is done. You’ll explore the Pause Verify Protect habit and see how applying it consistently helps you recognize phishing, business email compromise (BEC), and other costly scams. You’ll learn ways to identify common lures, urgency tactics, impersonation attempts, and scam requests across email, voice, text, and chat. You’ll also see real-world examples of vishing and smishing and learn how small moments of pause can prevent big mistakes.
In the second half of the course, you’ll explore the broader risks that show up in daily work, including unsafe QR codes, card readers, USB devices, risky downloads, and malicious ads. You’ll learn safe practices for opening files, downloading software, and responding when something suspicious occurs on your device. You’ll also learn how to protect accounts and data by using strong, unique credentials, password managers, passkeys, and secure cloud-sharing settings. Finally, you’ll see how approved accounts, single sign-on, and appropriate recovery actions help limit damage and support your organization’s overall security—giving you practical habits you can use every day, regardless of technical background.
Powering Productivity, One Brain at a Time!
Combining TV-style video production with modern graphics and animation, Bigger Brains courses are popular with both learners and training professionals around the world. Our top teachers and subject matter experts have real-world experience and create the most realistic and comprehensive training courses possible. Bigger Brains courses are built in a unique “Teacher/Learner” style, featuring two people on camera to recreate some of the interactivity and physiological benefits of classroom training, including dialogue, humor, and practical use case examples. This Uniquely Engaging™ video-based format is more enjoyable and more effective than traditional eLearning formats.
Teaching Professor; Faculty Director of the Business Administration in Computer Science Program
Mike Chapple, Ph.D., is faculty director of Notre Dame's Business Computer Science program and teaching professor of IT, Analytics, and Operations where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in business analytics and cybersecurity. Prior to joining the Mendoza faculty, Mike served as Senior Director for IT Service Delivery at the University. In this role, he oversaw the information security, IT compliance, cloud computing, data governance, IT architecture, learning platforms, project management, strategic planning and product management functions for the Office of Information Technologies. Mike led Notre Dame's Cloud First strategy which moved 83% of the University's IT services into the cloud over three years. Mike previously served as Senior Advisor to the Executive Vice President at Notre Dame for two years. Prior to that, he was program manager of the University's Information Security Program. Mike also previously served as Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer of the Brand Institute, a Miami-based marketing consultancy. He spent four years in the information security research group at the National Security Agency and served as an active duty intelligence officer in the U.S. Air Force.
