Providing Information Protection Education -Training Programs & Support Services

1. Information Protection Overview (for Executives)

Overview

The Information Protection Overview course focuses on key business and legal issues driving global requirements for more effective Information Protection and Network Security.

Information Protection Overview establishes the foundation for the complete Information Protection Team Training Series with its focus on People, Policy and Process. It forms the foundation for further ACCTTS courses such as Understanding Risk Factors.

Who Should Attend

  • Executives, Directors & Senior Managers responsible for crafting or maintaining Enterprise Information Protection Strategies & Policies.
  • Any persons who must implement or monitor Information Assurance and Privacy Policy Decisions.

Job Title examples include the following or direct reports of:

  • Chief Executive Officer
  • President
  • Chief Compliance Director
  • Chief Operating Officer
  • Chief Knowledge Officer
  • Chief Privacy Officer
  • Chief Legal Officer
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Chief Information Officer
  • Executive Vice Presidents
  • Vice Presidents
  • Outside Counsel & Advisors

Courses in This Series

A11A: Quick Intro to CyberCrime Fighting for All Stakeholders

Simple Computing Safeguards for Small Business and Home Computer Users

Concepts covered:

  • Password protection practices

  • Using strong (non-shared) authentication

  • Making regular backups of critical data

  • Using effective software protection from malware

malware

(MALicious WARE) Software designed to destroy, aggravate
and otherwise make life unhappy or frustrating.See virus, macro virus, Word macro virus, Worms and Trojan horse

  • Proper email procedures

  • Secure home office connectivity policies

  • Understanding firewalls and gateways

  • Resources to help educate and protect

A11S: Information Protection Overview (for Executives)

Overview

This orientation session is designed for non-technical executives and professionals who need to understand the key business issues and compliance laws driving their organization’s information protection and network security practices. At the end of the four-hour seminar, you will know how to evaluate the effectiveness of your organization’s information security policies. Learn the right questions to ask your staff. Understand the risks that cyber crimes and cyber terrorist attacks pose for your organization. Find out what can be done to prevent attacks and to minimize their impact. Sample corporate information security policies are also included that you can take back to use in your organization.

The course uses real world examples to show how competitors or Cyber-criminals may compromise data integrity or disrupt your network’s availability and reliability. It anchors our team training series with a focus on People, Policy and Process.

Focus

  • Participant workshops reinforce both risk assessment and mitigation methods in a straight-forward common sense format with a take-home executive risk assessment checklist and policy template.

  • Overview and guidelines for preparing, responding to and following-up after digital disruptions.

Who Should Attend

The audience for this course includes:

  • CEOs
  • CIOs
  • Presidents
  • Directors
  • Compliance Officers
  • Senior Managers
  • Anyone responsible for crafting enterprise information protection strategies & policies

Outcomes

What you will learn:

  • Are we at risk?
  • Who and what are the threats?
  • How do we prepare for the inevitable?
  • How do we determine if we have been attacked?
  • How do we stop an attack in progress?
  • What do we do?
  • Who do we notify?
  • How do we recover from an attack?

Outline

Section

Topic

1

Course Objectives & Overview / CBS "Cyber Thief" Video (15 Min)

2

Cyber Crime: A Most Unnatural Disaster

3

An Ounce of Prevention - AVOID Being Victimized!

4

Breakout-1: Assessing Risks
& Security Incident Response Team (SIRT) Preparation

5

Prudent Protection Practices & Safeguards

6

A Pound of Cure - Detection and Correcton

7

Breakout-2: Responding to "Cyber Attack" - Digital Disruption Simulations

8

Forensics & Dr. Quincy, ME - Analyzing Root Causes

9

Q&A Review with Overall Evaluation

Length

1/2 Day

Materials

Workbook, Workshop Guide & Information Protection Policy Templates

A12A: Introduction to CyberEthics for All Stakeholders

Overview

This half-day seminar introduces participants to CyberEthics, the ethical possibilities and dangers in the developing IT world. This practical course gives day-to-day network users basic knowledge and tools to engage evolving ethical issues of appropriate network use, and appropriate response to misuse. Participants will emerge motivated and equipped to be careful and proactive.

Focus

The course shows how the smallest network action or event can have wider consequences. Consequences can be positive or negative, and affect not just for the person(s) involved, but for the whole organization. Participants learn to identify these ethical situations, and leverage their new knowledge for positive outcomes.

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for any routine users of Web/Internet-based communications and business systems. It is particularly appropriate for sales personnel, account managers and administrators, and PR staff.

Outcomes

Participants will:

  1. Gain a basic knowledge of ethical theory and processes.

  2. Better understand the implications and impact of cyber-based work.

  3. Gain first stage knowledge of ethics in a cyber environment.

  4. Feel equipped to recognize and evaluate emergent issues.

  5. Understand the need to be proactive and careful within the vision and structure of their corporation.

  6. Learn practical rules and principles to apply in the cyber world (based on the Brooking Institute's Ten Commandments for CyberEthics).

Method and Materials

The seminar employs a mix of exercises, case studies, and small group work to provide, memorable, hands on, team based learning.

In order to encourage review and continuing education, course materials include:

  1. A complete summary of the classwork

  2. Three self-administered exercises

  3. A short and straightforward bibliography and reference list.

A12S: Introduction to CyberEthics for Senior Management

Overview

This two-hour seminar gives corporate leaders an overall understanding of the evolving impact of CyberEthics, and the means to lead and make sense of an increasingly fragmented medium.

Focus

The focus of this seminar is threefold

  1. Understanding the angers and possibilities inherent in global, unregulated Cyber business

  2. Leading and managing with vision in an area where rules address only yesterday's issues.

  3. Providing information and strategies for coherent, ethical and proactive corporate response to emergent cyber issues.

Who Should Attend

  • The course is most suited to those generating corporate vision and policy, and the senior managers who implement it.

Method and Materials

  • Presentations and discussion are reinforced by three exercises providing common experience for participants to reflect upon, individually and in small teams, during the seminar and later.

  • Comprehensive written resources accompany the seminar.

Topics

  • Ethics - a survey of principles and practice before the IT revolution.

  • CyberEthics - principles and practice after the IT revolution.

  • Compliance and reaction versus proactivity - the case for visionary policy in a rapidly changing environment.

  • The way forward: possible strategies and principles, defensive and preemptive, to move more confidently into the CyberEthical world.

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