If you felt shaky answering the questions in the previous section - don't worry! Lots of the terms you were asked to define are not exactly common knowledge. That very idea is the basis for this training.

Many people will tell you that security awareness is simply common sense. I don't personally believe that.

How did we find out that downloading content such as music and videos from sites we knew nothing about was a bad idea? How did we find out that online purchases were better made in the safety of our own homes (and our private networks) rather than when at Starbucks using the public WiFi? How did we find out that that the Prince from Malawi wasn't really going to give us $100,000?

I joke, slightly - but the answer is that real individuals made the mistakes, and not just one or two people, but many.

It is not at all surprising either. In fact, it is pretty unavoidable. Much of hacking is a combination of coding and social convention, meaning that hackers study the ways that people behave and interact with technology and then devise schemes that play seamlessly into normal behavior.

For example, in the wake of the Napster revolution, individuals were downloading music like crazy. Hackers began hiding malicious software in files that appeared to be MP3s because they realized how easy would be to infect PCs in this way. Prior to this happening, there was no real fear of this particular threat.

When it comes to our cyber security, as with all other things, we learn from our mistakes