Course AWR-136

Instructor-Led Training (Live)

Essentials of Community Cybersecurity

This discussion-based, non-technical course is an introduction to cybersecurity that provides individuals, community leaders and first responders with information on how cyber attacks can impact, prevent and/or stop operations and emergency responses in a community. The Essentials of Community Cybersecurity course provides a cursory introduction to cybersecurity vulnerabilities, risks, threats and countermeasures and introduces actions communities can take to establish a cybersecurity program. It introduces the Community Cybersecurity Maturity Model (CCSMM) as a framework for understanding community cybersecurity and offers a brief introduction to low or no-cost approaches to securing a community against cybersecurity threats and attacks; setting the stage for further efforts in which a community can build a cybersecurity program.

Objectives
  • Identify reasons why communities are vulnerable to cyber attack
  • Differentiate between the levels of cybersecurity threats
  • Recognize that terrorists are capable of using, and planning to use, computers to attack American communities and citizen
  • Describe how everyone is affected by and has a role in cybersecurity efforts
  • List ways cyberattacks can affect the physical world
  • Recognize the purpose of the Community Cyber Security Maturity Model
  • State one technique for enhancing security awareness among community leaders
  • Give one example of how a community can share cybersecurity-related information
  • Identify at least two kinds of exercises
  • Recognize that cybersecurity exercises are as important as other exercises to protect their organization, community, state and nation

 

Target Audience

Personnel with no more than a basic understanding of cybersecurity and are involved with critical infrastructure, emergency operations, and incident response in public or private organizations, including state, tribal, county and municipal offices; members of industry affiliations and chambers of commerce should attend.

Prerequisites

Recommended, but not required, is the NCPC course AWR-175-W Information Security for Everyone.

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