Cybersecurity Awareness Training for K-12 Staff

Cybersecurity Awareness for Educational Leaders: Creating a Cybersecurity Culture

Nearly all large educational institutions have embedded security measures in their departments and processes, and employee awareness is an important component of security. Even though all data breaches can be tied back to application vulnerability, you’d be surprised at what actually leads to that vulnerability. Every day, the information security deparment stays busy defending and cleaning on behalf of employees that made a bad decision or clicked a bad link in an email. This course will discuss the importance of security, identify how educational leaders can support security culture, list the roles of different departments in supporting security culture, list the roles and responsibilities of cybersecurity culture (CSC) team members, and describe the difference between supporting the CSC as a manager and as a leader.

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Cybersecurity Awareness for Educational Leaders: Incident Preparedness and Management Planning

While there's no way to eradicate cybersecurity threats and incidents completely, being prepared and ready can limit the damages when a breach does occur. In this online training, we will identify the best practices to mitigate cybersecurity incidents, different types of cybersecurity insurance, how to get your team ready for attacks, and how to effectively manage the crisis when an incident occurs. Moreover, we'll learn the importance of post-event crisis management.

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Cybersecurity Awareness for Educational Leaders: Laws and Global Compliance Standards

When it comes to compliance regarding cybersecurity, educational leaders should keep a close eye on laws and regulations in order to best manage the institution and preserve their data. In many cases, failure to follow the law has resulted in huge penalties, fines, and other financial damages. Therefore, in this training, we will be looking at regulations and their importance, along with key Cybersecurity Awareness for Educational Leaders: Laws and Global Compliance Standards and procedures you can put in place to secure data and manage a successful environment where faculty and staff and bring their own device.

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Cybersecurity Awareness for Educational Leaders: Safeguarding Against Social Engineering Attacks

Educational leaders make especially desirable targets for cyber attacks. Often, they have special privileges and access to particularly sensitive information, and their unique, often mobile, schedule makes them vulnerable to impersonation. This course focuses on how hackers exploit educational leaders and steps that individuals and organizations can take to protect themselves.

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Cybersecurity Awareness for Employees at Educational Institutions: Security Awareness Essentials

While technology weaknesses always represent a security threat, one of the biggest threats to an organization’s security today is human error. Employees who are unaware of the risks associated with their internet and technology usage, their role in securing their work environment can create security vulnerabilities for themselves and their organization. By the end of this course, employees at educational institutions will be able to describe the ways they can help protect against cyberattacks, define an Acceptable Use Policy and what it contains, explain best practices for protecting the security of smart devices and compare and contrast the pros and cons of “Bringing Your Own Device.”

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Cybersecurity Awareness for Employees of Educational Institutions: Classifying and Safeguarding Data for institutional and Personal Use

With the click of a button, we can place our very identity at risk. Furthermore, failing to follow cybersecurity measures in the workplace can lead to catastrophic results not only for us as individuals, but for our educational institutions and the students we serve. Personal information is protected by law and it is our ethical duty to do all we can to protect those who have trusted us with their sensitive data. This is why classifying and safeguarding data is a priority that must not be ignored. This course will explore the three main types of data classifications, the objectives for securing data, how to keep personal and business data separate, personal and educational institution standards for deleting and dumping data, and what to do when confronted with threats to mobile devices.

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Cybersecurity Awareness for Employees of Educational Institutions: End-User Best Practices

The employees who use an organization's technological systems, called end users, can make or break a cybersecurity system. By the end of this course, end users will be able to identify insecure hot spots in public places and the risks involved in roaming, differentiate between free and commercial VPN tunnels, recognize legitimate and secure websites, explain the importance of administrative rights, select the correct method to stop the spread of a virus, recommend ways to protect against malwares and viruses, list the do's and don'ts of password creation, name solutions for password management, and define different types of physical attacks against privacy and provide solutions to mitigate this risk.

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Cybersecurity Awareness for Employees of Educational Institutions: Social Engineering

Social engineering can come in many forms. It could look like an email coming from a credible organization, such as your bank; or, it could appear to come from your own organization. By replying to these emails or opening the attachments sent, you compromise your security and your organization’s security. This course will explore social engineering, the ways it can compromise your organization's data security, and steps you can take to stay safe. At the end of the course, you'll be able to define phishing and spear phishing, describe how to avoid phishing and spear phishing scams, understand how to make good decisions when using social media, categorize the two forms of identity theft, list common examples of identity theft, and explain how to avoid it.

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Cybersecurity Awareness Training for K-12 Staff

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Cybersecurity Awareness for Educational Leaders: Creating a Cybersecurity Culture

Cybersecurity Awareness for Educational Leaders: Incident Preparedness and Management Planning

Cybersecurity Awareness for Educational Leaders: Laws and Global Compliance Standards

Cybersecurity Awareness for Educational Leaders: Safeguarding Against Social Engineering Attacks

Cybersecurity Awareness for Employees at Educational Institutions: Security Awareness Essentials

Cybersecurity Awareness for Employees of Educational Institutions: Classifying and Safeguarding Data for institutional and Personal Use

Cybersecurity Awareness for Employees of Educational Institutions: End-User Best Practices

Cybersecurity Awareness for Employees of Educational Institutions: Social Engineering

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