Securing Your Home Office

This is the repository for the LinkedIn Learning course Securing Your Home Office. The full course is available from LinkedIn Learning.

Working from a home office might be a temporary situation or a permanent choice, but whatever the situation, security is key. In this course, Scott Simpson covers how to secure your home office. Learn tips for keeping work and personal hardware separate. Scott discusses how to keep your home office physically secure. Physical security alone isn’t enough, though. Learn about encryption and why you should use it to secure information. Then explore the importance of backups, to ensure mistakes and disasters don't result in missing information. Scott goes over Wi-Fi and network security, then explains the basics of what a virtual private network (VPN) does and offers some tips on how to use it safely. Find out how to browse the web securely. Then, Scott walks you through some basics of audio and video privacy, mobile security, as well as some scams that target home workers.

Recommended Courses

This course introduces several concepts that are more deeply explored in other LinkedIn Learning courses. Below is a list of courses we recommend for further exploration.

General Remote Work Tips

Time Management: Working from Home

Supporting Your Mental Health While Working from Home

Tips for Working Remotely

Balancing Work and Life as a Work-from-Home Parent

Remote Work Foundations

Organizing Your Remote Office for Maximum Productivity

Mastering Self-Motivation

Establishing Work from Home Policies

These courses and others can be found in the Remote Working: Setting Yourself and Your Teams Up for Success Learning Path.

Courses focusing on technologies, software, and other topics

Learning Wi-Fi

Building an Ubuntu Home Server

Learning FreeNAS

Learning VPN

Microsoft Teams Essential Training

Learning Zoom

Learning Computer Security and Internet Safety

Learning Mobile Device Security

Learning PC Maintenance and Performance

Executive Presence on Video Conference Calls

Avoiding Phishing Scams

Cybersecurity Awareness: Phishing and Whaling

Security Tips

Instructor

Scott Simpson

Creating technology courses as an Author at LinkedIn

Check out some of my other courses on LinkedIn Learning.