Digital Skills: Password and Authentication

Passwords and authentication methods are everywhere, from accessing our emails to websites to making purchases. But they are full of risks. In this courses I show you various ways to protect yourself without making life unbearable.

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Hi, I am Ross and I hope you will enjoy this course!

There is virtually nothing we can do online without entering a password or authenticating ourselves. Great. The problem is that no-one has really taught us what good passwords even are or what to do and not do when using password management tools.

This is a course on this! Here we unpack all the do's and don'ts around passwords and authentication to make it less likely we will fall prey to bad actors.

I really hope you enjoy this course!

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Course curriculum

1. Password mistakes
2. Good passwords
3. Unique passwords
4. Password managers
5. PIN codes
6. Passkeys
7. Passkeys continued
8. FIDO keys
9. MFA
10. MFA recovery

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Your instructor is...

Ross Saunders

For 20+ years I've lived in software: help desk, infrastructure, development, DevOps (before it had a name), and tech leadership for multinationals. For the last 15, I've specialised in the technical side of privacy and cybersecurity, the part where legal requirements meet real engineers, real products, and real deadlines.

I am passionate about privacy and safety. Indeed, privacy doesn't have to be the thing that slows your team down or keeps you up at night. Usually it's both, it doesn't have to be either.

🛠️ What I do

For founders, CTOs, and privacy officers who need this handled without derailing delivery: • Translate legal and regulatory requirements into things developers can actually build • Embed privacy into the SDLC, so risk gets designed out early instead of patched late • Run Privacy Impact Assessments and DPIAs that end in a clear roadmap, not a filing cabinet • Bridge the privacy office and the dev team (I speak both languages fluently) • Find the blind spots, assess maturity, and build a plan that fits your size and stage

You can find more about me at www.linkedin.com/in/rgsaunders or my website . www.rossgsaunders.com