Training
Cyber Safety 101: An Introduction to Cyber Threats and Internet Risk
| When: | Wednesday March 10, 2010 |
| Where: | Newseum 555 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20001 888/NEWSEUM |
| Registration: | Online registration and fee collection: |
Course Overview
Too often, “Cyber security” is seen as a technical matter and the purview solely of IT professionals. Unfortunately, it is both the machines and the users which are under attack. In Cyber Safety 101: An Introduction to Cyber Threats and Internet Risk, students are exposed in friendly, non-technical terms to the basic workings of the Internet and how criminals, scammers, adversaries, hackers and spies exploit those technologies, systems and, most of all, the users themselves in the insecure Cyber universe.
Learning from professionals with years of experience tracking and monitoring the “dark underbelly” of Cyberspace, you will learn how bad actors use the Internet to steal, impersonate, compromise and hijack not just funds and identities but entire networks and sensitive data.
From the teenage “script kiddy” draining Paypal accounts to the state-sponsored adversaries threatening our national security, you will see the scope, breadth, variety and sophistication of today’s online enemies, and learn how to protect yourself, your organization, its data and its mission from the dark forces at work on the Internet.
What You Will Learn
When students leave this course they will:
- Have a solid understanding of how the Internet actually works, and the inherent vulnerabilities and weaknesses in the system we all rely on every day
- Know the basics, and the limitations, of the rules, policies and laws that do (or fail to) govern, manage and safeguard users and information in the Cyber world
- Understand the sophistication of today’s online threats, and be much more adept at recognizing, stopping and avoiding those
- Be better equipped to protect themselves, their hardware, and the data, systems and mission of the agencies they work for
- Gain an introduction to the new discipline of Cyber Intelligence, and how the Internet can also provide valuable information and lead to predictive defense that recognizes threats before they happen
Who Should Take This Course?
This course is invaluable education for every knowledge worker whose PC, laptop, PDA or cell phone is connected to the Internet. As more and more systems and devices are permanently online, and as more agencies incorporate Internet technologies into mission-critical systems, the risks to these systems and the agencies’ missions commensurately increase.
Today, anyone working online is a potential target. Every connected device is a potential entry point for a criminal, adversary or enemy of the United States. And the risks are so new, so numerous and so sophisticated that education is absolutely vital to helping your employees safeguard your organization’s systems, data and business.