AWR-383 Cybersecurity Risk Awareness for Officials and Senior Management

This course is designed to develop awareness of cybersecurity risks so that elected officials, appointed officials, and other senior managers are better informed in order to properly protect the jurisdiction/organization from a cyber incident.

This National Cybersecurity Preparedness Consortium (NCPC) training course is developed by the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service and delivered by Norwich University Applied Research Institutes (NUARI). NCPC courses are fully funded by DHS/FEMA and provided at no direct cost to participants.

Course Description
This is a non-technical course meant to help officials and senior management work more effectively with their Information Technology (IT) and other departments to mitigate cyber threats. The training is tailored to government, critical infrastructure, and private sector personnel who have the responsibility for directing and developing policy within their organization.

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Explain the basic concepts involved in cyber threats and cyber attacks
• Describe how their jurisdiction/organization is at risk for a cyber attack and the impacts an incident could produce.
• Formulate strategic actions the jurisdiction/organization can implement to better protect against, respond to, and recover from a cyber incident.

Target Audience

• Whole Community; public, private, and non-profit
• Executives
• Management
• Elected and appointed officials
• Directors of critical infrastructure
• Senior leadership roles in any organization

Prerequisites
It is recommended that participants take the online course, AWR175-W Information Security for Everyone prior to attending this training. AWR175-W is sponsored by FEMA with no-cost to the participant. Register at https://TEEX.org/cyber United States citizen, permanent resident, or prior approval is required to attend this class.

Required Materials
Participants are required to have a laptop computer that can access a public wifi connection.

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