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Cyber Conduct
Practical guidance for staying safe, protecting your information, understanding digital risks, and behaving responsibly online.
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You don't need to know the cybersecurity terminology. Start with what you're actually trying to solve.
You clicked something, lost access, got scammed, or something just feels wrong.
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Build better habits, secure your accounts, and make your devices harder to abuse.
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Learn how digital behaviour, privacy, scams, AI and online safety actually work.
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What is Cyber Conduct?
Cyber Conduct is bigger than cybersecurity. It is about how we protect ourselves, think about our actions, and treat other people in digital spaces.
Protect your accounts, devices, information and the people who trust you.
Pause before you click, share, post, download, trust or respond.
Treat people, privacy and digital spaces with the same care you would offline.
Something happened?
You don't have to know whether something is technically phishing, account takeover or identity exposure. Tell us what happened.
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Something happened? Start with a practical set of next steps.
Check a message, link or situation for common warning signs.
Use practical tools and checklists to improve your digital safety.
Understand digital responsibility, privacy, AI, scams and online behaviour.
Browse practical cybersecurity and digital-safety guidance.
Find guidance grounded in risks and situations South Africans encounter.
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Cyber Conduct isn't only about reacting to incidents. Learn about digital responsibility, privacy, online behaviour, AI and the choices we make when we're connected.
Cyber Conduct is about how we behave, communicate, protect ourselves and treat others in digital spaces.
Practical principles for behaving safely, responsibly and respectfully in digital spaces.
Understanding your responsibility when creating, sharing, accessing and storing information online.
Toolkit
Simple tools and checklists for improving your digital safety.
GENERATOR
Create a strong, unique password or passphrase, generated entirely in your browser.
GUIDE
Understand multi-factor authentication and which type suits each account.
CHECKLIST
Review what's public, what apps can access, and how your accounts are secured.
South Africa
Guidance for situations people in South Africa actually encounter, including scams, SIM swaps, banking fraud and other local risks.
Resources
Practical guidance for the questions that don't fit neatly into one incident.
The mechanics behind fake messages designed to steal your information.
Your email is often the key to every other account — here's how to lock it down.
Practical steps to protect your WhatsApp account from takeover.
Cyber Conduct Insights
The Insights site is where Cyber Conduct goes beyond the quick answer — with longer explainers, stories, developments and practical commentary about the digital world.
Our approach
We don't use fear to get your attention. We explain what the signs may mean, what you can do next, and where to look for further help.