Security Awareness Training

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Inspired eLearning Security Awareness Library

Basic Security Awareness Library

S-101: Basic Security Awareness

30-40 minutes
Protecting your personal and workplace data is as crucial as protecting your bank account. Hackers, identity thieves and malicious programs roam the Internet searching for easy targets. Learn the fundamentals of information security including key principles, concepts, vulnerabilities, threats and how to counter them. By mastering the information presented in this course you will be able to defend your personal and workplace data from malicious threats and become certified in basic security awareness.

Key Topics
Introduction, password management, viruses and malware, mobile data, physical security, social engineering, phishers, acceptable use policies, and incident response.

S-102: Advanced Security Awareness

20-30 minutes
Learn the advanced security awareness topics needed to complete your training and be a human firewall. By mastering the information presented in this course you will be able to defend your personal and workplace data from malicious threats and become certified in information security awareness and literacy.

Key Topics
Security services, risk management, network eavesdropping, encryption, malware, backups, protecting your home computer, identity theft, privacy, and legal issues.

S-103: Security Awareness and Literacy

50-70 minutes
This course combines S-101 and S-102 into a single training program for organizations who would like to deploy one training program that covers every topic required by major standards and regulations.

Key Topics
Introduction, password management, viruses and malware, mobile data, physical security, social engineering, phishers, acceptable use policies incident response, security services, risk management, network eavesdropping, encryption, malware, backups, protecting your home computer, identity theft, privacy, and legal issues.

Extended Security Awareness Library

S-105: Security Awareness Refresher

15-25 minutes
Review the fundamentals of information security including key principles, concepts, vulnerabilities, threats and how to counter them. Each topic is followed by an interactive quiz.

Key Topics
Password management, policies, viruses and malware, mobile data, acceptable use policies, email security, physical security, social engineering, phishers, privacy, and incident response.

S-110: Security Awareness for Managers

20-30 minutes
Your managers are in a unique position to influence the success or failure of your security awareness program. Because they are the voice of your organization to their direct reports, their behavior and buy-in is a critical component of ensuring your cultural transformation to a security conscious organization. Therefore, training them to lead by example and encourage their teams to conduct everyday business in a responsible and secure way that reduces organizational risk, increases productivity and complies with policies, laws and regulations is critically important. This security awareness course is designed to do just that and is part of Inspired eLearning’s role-based enterprise wide security awareness training program.

Key Topics
Introduction, leading by example, security management practices, and legal issues.

S-120: Security Awareness for IT Professionals

20-30 minutes
Your IT professionals needs to be ready with the knowledge and skills needed to enable your business processes to keep moving forward while, at the same time, protecting your information assets and capabilities. This security awareness course is part of Inspired eLearning’s role-based enterprise wide security awareness training program. It is designed to provide all IT professionals with the knowledge and skills they need to do their part in preventing security incidents, avoiding common pitfalls and following information security policies, standards and guidelines.

Key Topics
Introduction, top IT vulnerabilities, common mistakes, security policies and requirements, incident response, IT code of ethics.

S-125: Baseline Information Security Training for IT Professionals

75-90 minutes
To ensure enterprise security it is important to establish a baseline of fundamental information security knowledge that every single employee in the IT department must have. And the best way to ensure this baseline is to regularly train all current employees and new hires. This course is designed to provide that baseline of knowledge to any organization and to be easily customized to fit your particular policies, procedures, best practices and guidelines.

Key Topics
Introduction, common forms of attack, network security, cryptography, password management, disaster recovery, best practices.

S-133: Security Awareness and Literacy

55 minutes
This is our second all-user security awareness training course, which is designed to provide a fresh training experience in year two or three of your program. The theme of this course is “the strongest link.” It covers the same topics as S-103, such as password management, identity theft, malware, social engineering, phishing, physical security, travel safety, mobile data, privacy, and acceptable use.

Key Topics
Introduction, password management, viruses and malware, mobile data, physical security, social engineering, phishers, acceptable use policies incident response, security services, risk management, network eavesdropping, encryption, malware, backups, protecting your home computer, identity theft, privacy, and legal issues.

S-135: Security Awareness Refresher

20 minutes
This is our second all-user security awareness refresher course and is a companion to S-133. It reviews the fundamentals of information security including key principles, concepts, vulnerabilities, threats, and how to counter them. Each topic is followed by an interactive quiz.

Key Topics
Password management, policies, viruses and malware, mobile data, acceptable use policies, email security, physical security, social engineering, phishers, privacy, and incident response.

P-103: Physical Security

30-45 minutes
Train your employees to recognize and respond to physical security issues in the workplace, including workplace violence, theft, and emergencies.

Key Topics
Introduction, workplace violence, terrorism, threats, countermeasures, access controls, environmental threats, emergency response.

PCI-101: PCI Awareness

20 minutes
This course introduces employees and supervisors to the 12 PCI requirements, their role in ensuring compliance with PCI, and the best practices they should follow every day.

Key Topics
What is PCI, PCI requirements, how to comply with PCI, best practices for employees, best practices for supervisors.

HS-102: HIPAA Security

30-40 minutes
This course covers information security awareness topics from the point of view of protecting medical records and all Protected Health Information (PHI). It includes the same topics found in S-101 and S-102 in order to comply with the HIPAA Security Rule.

Privacy Library

P-101: General Privacy Awareness

45 minutes
Protecting customer, organization, and employee private data is not just a core organizational value, it’s the law. This course will help employees understand what information is private, why it is private, and what they can do to protect it throughout the data lifecycle, which is the life of a piece of information, whether in paper or digital format, from creation to destruction within an organization.

Key Topics
Introduction, recognizing public and nonpublic information, real world examples, US laws, global laws, the privacy act, and best practices for collection, storage, access, use, sharing, security, retention and destruction.

GLBA-101: GLBA Privacy Awareness

45 minutes
Protecting Nonpublic Personal Information (NPI) is more than just a core organizational value. Because of the Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999, also referred to as the U.S. Gramm Leach Bliley Act (GLBA), it's the law. This privacy course is specifically tailored to help financial services employees understand what information is private, why it is private, and what they can do to protect it throughout the data lifecycle, which is the life of a piece of information, whether in paper or digital format, from creation to destruction within an organization.

Key Topics
Introduction, recognizing NPI, real world examples, US laws, global laws, GLBA, the privacy act, and best practices for collection, storage, access, use, sharing, security, retention and destruction.

HP-101: HIPAA Privacy

45 minutes
Training employees to safeguard Protected Health Information (PHI) is a requirement of all "covered entities" based on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. This privacy course is specifically tailored to help healthcare employees understand what information is private, why it is private, and what they can do to protect it.

Key Topics
Introduction, recognizing PHI, real world examples, US laws, covered entities, the privacy rule, authorization, rights of access, parental rights, security, and complaints.

Additional Courses

DR-101: Data and Records Retention

35 minutes
Electronic and hardcopy data is growing at a rate of about 125% per year and yet only 20% of that data is actually used to conduct business. Your employees need to be trained to only create the data they need, as well as how to properly and legally dispose of it when it is no longer required. This will not only lower your administrative burden, but will also make electronic discovery much less costly in the event of a lawsuit.

Key Topics
Introduction, laws, data and document creation, retention, and destruction best practices.

S-107: Red Flag Identity Theft Prevention

25 minutes
This course helps employees understand your Identity Theft Prevention Program and how they can help prevent identity theft by recognizing Red Flags and responding appropriately. It includes coverage of laws, regulations, definitions, identity theft prevention program details, detection, response, and handling address discrepancies.

Key Topics
Introduction, laws, regulations, coverage, definitions, identity theft prevention program details, detecting red flags, responding to red flags, and address discrepancies.