Cybersecurity

CYBERSECURITY AWARENESS FOR INDUSTRY & ACADEMIA

Cybersecurity Awareness for Industry & Academia

Cybersecurity

eLearning Courses

  • Cyber Security Awareness, CS130.16
    This 30-minute course provides a working knowledge of cyber intrusion methods and cybersecurity countermeasures to assist employees in preventing cyber attacks and protecting their systems and information.

Job Aids

  • Cyber Essentials Guide
    This guide developed by CISA is for leaders of small businesses as well as leaders of small and local government agencies to enable them to develop an actionable understanding of where to start implementing organizational cybersecurity practices.
  • Mobile Device Safety
    This job aid from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) provides basic tips for mobile device safety in the current environment.
  • Spearfishing and Common Cyber Attacks
    This job aid from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence provides information about spearfishing and current cyber attack methods.
  • Top 10 Routinely Exploited Vulnerabilities
    This job aid provides details on vulnerabilities routinely exploited by foreign cyber actors—primarily Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs)—to help organizations reduce the risk of these foreign threats.
  • Joint Cyber Intelligence Tool Suite (JCITS)
    In partnership with industry, JCITS uses mapping of cleared contractor public infrastructure and fuses those maps with known cyber-attack patterns of foreign adversaries.
  • CISA Regional Offices
    This job aid provides a map with CISA Regional Office contact information.

Posters

Reports

  • NIST Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity
    Executive Order 13636 directed NIST to work with stakeholders to develop a voluntary framework - based on existing standards, guidelines, and practices - for reducing cyber risks to critical infrastructure. Created through collaboration between industry and government, the voluntary framework consists of standards, guidelines, and practices to promote the protection of critical infrastructure. The prioritized, flexible, repeatable, and cost-effective approach of the framework helps owners and operators of critical infrastructure to manage cybersecurity-related risk.

Toolkits

  • Cyber Essentials Toolkit
    The Cyber Essentials Toolkit is a set of modules designed to break down the CISA Cyber Essentials into bite-sized actions for IT and C-suite leadership to work toward full implementation of each Cyber Essential. Each chapter focuses on recommended actions to build cyber readiness into the interrelated aspects of an organizational culture of cyber readiness.
  • NSA Cybersecurity Advisories and Technical Guidance
    This site provides advisories and mitigations on evolving cybersecurity threats. Some resources on this site have access requirements.
  • OnGuardOnline
    This Federal Trade Commission website contains general information and tips to protect information and devices online.
  • NCSC Awareness Materials
    The materials in this toolkit will enable personnel to better understand existing threats to and provide guidance and tips for protecting the sensitive information, assets, technologies, and networks to which employees have access.

Watch & Learn

  • Cybersecurity Attacks - The Insider Threat
    This 15-minute video teaches the viewer to recognize and mitigate the attacks performed by witting and unwitting entities that comprise the cybersecurity environment.
  • NCSC Cyber Training Series
    This is a series of three courses designed for professionals new to the cyber realm. It introduces users to the computer'scomponent layers and associated functions, virtualization concepts, and security methods.
  • Protect Your Computer from Malware
    Malware is short for “malicious software." It includes viruses and spyware that get installed on your computer or mobiledevice without your consent. Learn more about how to avoid, detect, and get rid of malware.

Webinars

  • Creating a Workplace Culture of Cybersecurity
    This CDSE webcast is designed for those with responsibility for ensuring a secure cybersecurity environment in theworkplace and will give practical tips for how to develop a culture that promotes good cybersecurity practices.

Games

  • Cybersecurity: Tomorrow’s Internet
    InternetTest your knowledge of cybersecurity and earn badges as you go.
  • Cybersecurity Magic 8 Ball
    Can you correctly predict how the Magic 8 Ball will answer these cybersecurity questions?
  • Cybersecurity Trivia Twirl
    This game features a wheel with six segments, each representing a different Cybersecurity category. Spin the wheel andcorrectly answer the question to “collect” that category segment. Play continues until you successfully collect all sixcategory segments.

National Cybersecurity Policy for Industry & Academia

Policy

Social Media Considerations for Industry & Academia

Job Aids

Posters

Reports

  • Internet Social Networking Risks
    This ODNI report provides definitions of terms associated with internet and social networking risks and provides practicaltips and best practices for mitigating the risk.

Watch & Learn

  • Social Media Video Lesson
    This video lesson explores the risks associated with social media and why you should be concerned.

National Counterintelligence and Security Center