Cybersecurity for Small Business

Owners, managers, office administrators and the person who looks after IT in a small business, whether a shop, clinic, agency, practice or workshop. No technical background is needed.

Yes. The FTC, CISA and FBI lessons teach habits that work anywhere. EDWartens' notes add Indian law and reporting throughout: the DPDP Act 2023 and Rules, CERT-In's 6-hour reporting, and the 1930 cyber fraud helpline.

No. Some lessons come from Professor Messer's Security+ SY0-701 series because they explain topics clearly, but this course is not exam preparation and is not affiliated with CompTIA. EDWartens has a separate Security+ exam prep course.

It explains the main duties and gives you a practical starting point. It is not legal advice; for a business with large volumes of personal data, take advice from a lawyer.

About 6 hours of video lessons, notes and practice questions, plus about 8 hours if you do the optional project. You work at your own pace.

You make a 25-person travel agency in Kochi safer: an asset inventory, a scored risk register, a security baseline, a one-page incident response plan with Indian reporting routes, and a staff training record. A sample pack shows each document.

Yes. Every module, the notes, the project and the final assessment. The only paid item is the certificate, if you want it.

An EDWartens Certificate of Completion, issued when you pass the final assessment, with a number anyone can verify on our site. It is not a vendor or government certification.

No. The lab is optional practice. You can skip it whenever you like, and it never blocks your progress, the final assessment or your certificate.

Yes. Every lab level for this course opens in your browser, free, with nothing to install.

Yes. Learning costs ₹0 in India: every module, the written notes, the practice tasks and the final assessment, with no card and no trial period. The only paid item is the optional EDWartens Certificate of Completion, ₹499 including GST for this beginner course, paid in rupees through Razorpay, and only if you want it after passing the final assessment.

The Cybersecurity for Small Business course has 9 modules. It opens with "Start with security", goes through "The owner's job in cybersecurity", "Passwords, MFA and who can log in", "Ransomware and backups" and "When it goes wrong" and ends with "Final Assessment". The full list with minutes is under "What you learn" on this page.

After the Cybersecurity for Small Business course: Explain why small businesses are attacked and rank the risks to your own; Lead security as an owner: responsibilities, budget and policies; Recognise phishing, scams and business email compromise, and stop fraudulent payments. These are the practical outcomes the course is written around, and the final assessment of 15 questions checks them.

For the Cybersecurity for Small Business course, software: None required. You will review the settings of the email, accounts and devices your business already uses. Hardware: none. The course itself is free.

Cybersecurity for Small Business is rated beginner. Beginner. No technical background is needed. Written for owners, managers, office administrators and the person who ends up looking after IT in a business of 5 to 100 people. It is written for small business owners, office managers and the person who looks after IT, and has 2h 10m of video lessons at your own pace.

Skills from the Cybersecurity for Small Business course (for example: explain why small businesses are attacked and rank the risks to your own) are used in small business owner work. The course gives you practical evidence of the skill; it does not promise a job, and employers decide on experience and interview.