Security Awareness

One-day training sessions (8 Hours)

This course is designed to train employees at all levels of the organization. Some of the topics include:

  • Your company security policies and how they affect you
  • Homeland security, you, and the corporation
  • What is a firewall and why your company has one
  • Identifying Suspect Processes and Applications
  • User threats against systems
  • Cyber Crime and Federal laws
  • Regulatory Issues (GLB, HIPAA, SOX)
  • Securing your home computer
  • What you don’t know can hurt you
  • Cookies and Spyware
  • E-mail security
  • Recognizing Phishing attacks
  • Denial of Service attacks
  • Spam
  • Appropriate browser settings for optimal security
  • Incident response
  • Cyber Crime trends
  • Regulatory, civil and criminal laws regarding computer networks and the Internet
  • You and the U.S. Patriot Act
  • How to detect if your system has been compromised
  • Reporting your security concerns
  • Malicious software and how it gets on your computer and in your network
  • Virus software, what it is, how to detect it, and how to get rid of it
  • Network worms, what they are, how to detect them, and how to get rid of them
  • Trojan horses, what they are, how to detect them, and how to get rid of them
  • How malicious software gets on your system
  • The WWW (Wild Wild Web)
  • What makes a network secure
  • What makes a network vulnerable
  • Recognizing social engineering attacks
  • How and why to construct a strong password
  • The how’s and why’s of identity theft and ways to minimize the risk
Security awareness training includes numerous demonstrations and training manuals for each employee. Security awareness training can be molded to fit your organizational needs.