CodeAlpha_PhishingAwarenessTraining

Phishing Awareness Training 🛡️

CodeAlpha Cybersecurity Internship — Task 2

📌 Overview

A complete phishing awareness training module designed to educate users about phishing attacks, how to recognize them, and best practices to stay safe online.

📂 Project Structure

CodeAlpha_PhishingAwarenessTraining/ ├── Phishing_Awareness_Training.pptx # Main presentation (9 slides) ├── phishing_quiz_interactive.html # Interactive quiz └── README.md

📊 Presentation Contents

| Slide | Topic | |——-|——-| | 1 | Title & Key Statistics | | 2 | What is Phishing? | | 3 | How to Recognize Phishing Emails | | 4 | Social Engineering Tactics | | 5 | Real-World Examples | | 6 | Best Practices to Stay Safe | | 7 | Interactive Quiz | | 8 | What to Do If Phished | | 9 | Key Takeaways |

🎯 Interactive Quiz

The quiz (phishing_quiz_interactive.html) includes:

• 5 real-world scenario questions
• Instant answer validation
• Correct/wrong feedback with explanations
• Score tracking
• Retry option

Live Quiz: Click here to try it

🔑 Key Topics Covered

• Email phishing, Smishing, Website spoofing
• Social engineering tactics (Urgency, Impersonation, Pretexting, Baiting)
• Real-world case studies (DNC 2016, Twitter 2020, Colonial Pipeline 2021)
• Best practices (MFA, link verification, reporting)
• Incident response steps

🛠️ Tools Used

• PowerPoint (Presentation)
• HTML, CSS, JavaScript (Interactive Quiz)
• Git & GitHub (Version Control)

👤 Author

Barath CodeAlpha Cybersecurity Internship GitHub

📜 License

This project is created for educational purposes as part of the CodeAlpha Internship Program.