NEW training courses on the subject of e-mail
+++ E-mail training +++
There are regular warnings about so-called "phishing" attacks at RPTU. But what do "phishing" e-mails actually mean? Why do we receive these emails and how dangerous are they really? What is the best way to protect yourself? In just over an hour, you will be fully informed, made aware of the dangers and trained in protective measures for safe handling. Afterwards, you will know what to do to avoid risks and how to act in the event of damage so that you can get through your day-to-day electronic work more easily and securely.
Building on the e-mail phishing training, the second part will deal more specifically with user certificates, signatures, encryption, etc. In addition to short theoretical parts, in which you will be fully informed, made aware of current dangers and trained in protective measures for secure handling, you will receive small practical parts with "live hacking" and "hands-on lab" insight into the real system. After the training, you can not only apply for your own personal user certificate, but also integrate it directly on site and receive assistance with problems or questions.
NEXT DATES:
November 2025
25.11.25 10-11 a.m. E-mail phishing
27.11.25 10-11 a.m. Secure e-mail communication with S/MIME
December 2025
02.12.25 10-11 a.m. Email phishing
03.12.25 10-11 a.m. Secure e-mail communication with S/MIME
Please register via the RHRZ seminar offer https://courses.rz.rptu.de. You will be sent the access data for the video conference after successful registration. Please be online on time on the day of the training.
--- NOTE: If, due to time constraints, specific requirements or other reasons, you would like training only for your department, your AG or your team, please contact us and we will adapt the training to your concerns, needs and wishes so that you receive the fastest and best possible training. ---
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the Information Security team.
Internal training
Individual training in the workplace!
Would you like to use your time efficiently and continue your training on current topics in the world of work flexibly and from any location? Then the GoodHabitz online training platform offers you the best opportunity to enrich your knowledge.
This offer includes free access to all GoodHabitz online training courses for all employees at RPTU. After successfully completing your course, you can prove that you have increased your knowledge with certificates of participation or certificates.
You can find a PDF file with further information here: https://seafile.rlp.net/f/e919ab9fd0ac48f49615/
You can access the offer directly here (log in with your RHRK account): https://my.goodhabitz.com/sso/uni-kl
Enter "information security" in the search field in GoodHabitz
and start your personal online course.
RPTU Government IT security training
Announcement
At the beginning of October 2025, the OpenOlat course "RPTU Government IT Security Training" (BITS) was translated into English.
Description
This course, designed by Behörden-IT-Sicherheitstraining - BITS for short - is aimed at employees and staff as well as members of the RPTU and all other interested parties.
The course is not only intended to impart knowledge, but also to encourage people to think about their own habits, perhaps even to change them, to actively engage with the topics and to implement the recommended measures.
Learning objectives
The course is divided into 10 lessons of different lengths. The breakdown is as follows and can be found on the left:
- Lesson E-Mails
- Lesson Viruses
- Lesson Passwords
- Lesson Surfing the Internet
- Confidential data lesson
- Lesson Social Media
- Lesson Cloud
- Lesson Mobile devices
- Lesson My workplace
- Lesson AI - Artificial intelligence
In principle, the chapters are more or less coordinated with each other, but you can also read and work through them in your own order and thus topic-related.
Prerequisites
There are no specific prerequisites that must be fulfilled in order to attend the course.
Certificate
There are usually a few test questions at the end of each chapter for self-assessment. These self-tests are not graded.
However, at the end of the entire course at the latest, there is a final test which must be passed with over 80% in order to receive an OLAT certificate.
Links to
https://olat.vcrp.de/url/RepositoryEntry/4816273580
https://olat.vcrp.de/auth/RepositoryEntry/4998725907 - English Version
External training courses
Continuing education outside the box
Digital consultation hour at Kaiserslautern University of Applied Sciences
For the past year, a digital consultation hour for university members has been held every Monday at 11:15 a.m. in the BigBlueButton online lecture hall, where, in addition to a relaxed exchange about digital services and projects at our university, there is (usually) a small lecture or workshop on a current topic in the field of digitalization, AI and/or IT security.
Preliminary program for the winter semester 2025/26:
- 13.10.2025 and 20.10.2025: Overview of the digital offers of the HS-KL (Olat, BBB, Mattermost, Seafile, Panopto, ...)
- 27.10.2025: Everything about AI at the HS-KL: AI guidelines, AI courses/skills acquisition, central AI offerings (incl. in-house development FAIRD), chatbots individually and as learning assistants in Olat, image processing with AI via the Acedemic Cloud, LLMs in OnlyOffice and Void, also operate LLMs locally
- 3.11.2025: Reliable information → Electronic signatures in emails and documents
- 10.11.2025: "Thanks for all the Phish" → Securely detect and prevent phishing emails
- 17.11.2025: Network and information security at HS-KL, multi-factor authentication for all(s)
- 24.11.2025: Campusboard app
- 1.12.2025: Mattermost + Gitlab for teams and projects
- 8.12.2025: Create and invite data protection-compliant surveys (information for students and lecturers)
- 15.12.2025: No topic yet
- 22.12.2025: Entertaining lecture on a serious topic: "Why do AIs lie?"
- ...
[to be continued...]
External event tip:
IT-SAD November 03-14, 2025
Good afternoon,
The IT Security Awareness Days are taking place again this semester and I would like to invite you to attend.
As always, the presentations will take place online, registration is not necessary. The IT-SAD will take place via WebEx.
Access link: https://tu-braunschweig.webex.com/tu-braunschweig/j.php?MTID=m8659363fd0a5662f1dbb94f47ec50e17
Joining should work via the WebEx client as well as all common browsers.
More information at: https://www.tu-braunschweig.de/ciso/it-sad/it-sad-wintersemester-2025/26
Please spread the word about the invitation!
Yours sincerely,
Dr. Christian Böttger
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
Phishing Master" simulator
The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has written a program to train itself to quickly distinguish phishing emails from genuine emails and "shoot them down". Both phishing and legitimate emails are displayed in a game, which the user then has to shoot down. The rules and controls are explained at the beginning, followed by a short training session. Once you have successfully completed the training level, you can start shooting... have fun ;-)
Click here for the game: https://phishing-master.secuso.org