Cybersecurity awareness and habits of mind

• Creating Strong Passwords: Learn about the rules for creating strong passwords, latest trends and best practices in password security.
• Physical Security: Addresses protection of employees at the company, customers and their funds, protection of the premises, and any security devices, computers, and networks, from physical circumstances and events that could cause serious losses or damage.
• GDPR: Learn about General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and what it means to your organization.
• Handling Sensitive Information: Overview of importance of safely handling sensitive information, like Personally Identifiable Information (PII), Protected Health Information (PHI), Credit Card data (PCI DSS), Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), including your organization’s proprietary information.
• Ransomware: Learn the basics of ransomware, the different methods used to infect a machine, and how hackers to trick people into downloading infected files, and how to avoid potential threats.
• Internet Security and the Modern Threatscape: Addresses today’s threat landscape and an employee’s role in keeping their organization secure against these threats. You will develop an understanding of current cybercrime strategies, and digital and in-person threats used by cybercriminals to trick employees into taking an action.
• Email Spoofing: Focuses on email spoofing and describes how hackers can infiltrate an organization and create spoofed emails that trick unsuspecting employees.
• Social Engineering: Focuses on social engineering and describes what criminals are after when businesses and their employees are targeted.
• Creating Strong Passwords: Review rules of how to create and use strong passwords at the office, at home, and on the road. You will develop strategies related to safer passwords, minimum password length, and how to remember long passwords.
• Certified Secure Computer Users (CSCU): The purpose of the CSCU training program is to provide individuals with the necessary knowledge and skills to protect their information assets. This course will immerse students into an interactive environment where they will acquire a fundamental understanding of various computer and network security threats such as identity theft, credit card fraud, online banking phishing scams, virus and backdoors, emails hoaxes, sex offenders lurking online, loss of confidential information, hacking attacks and social engineering. (Prepares for the EC-Council CSCU Certification.)