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Security Awareness Training Modules Overview

Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness Training 2022

INITIAL TRAINING COURSE RECOMMENDED FOR ALL

This 45-minute fully interactive course takes you through three modules: Social Engineering Red Flags, Common Threats and Your Role*. Recognizing the tricks and techniques hackers are using against you and your organization is critical to staying safe. Join Sparr0w (a hacker) and Kevin Mitnick (Chief Hacking Officer at KnowBe4) as they share their insider knowledge and take you behind the scenes to show you how the bad guys do what they do. Along the way, you’ll become familiar with the signs of danger you should look for and the steps you can take to avoid becoming a victim of cybercrime. Additionally, you will practice your security awareness skills through a number of engaging scenarios.

Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness Training (Advanced / Condensed)

This module is a condensed version of the full 45-minute training, often assigned to management. Recognizing the tricks and techniques hackers are using against you and your organization is critical to staying safe. Join Sparr0w (a hacker) and Kevin Mitnick (Chief Hacking Officer at KnowBe4) as they share their insider knowledge and take you behind the scenes to show you how the bad guys do what they do. Along the way, you’ll become familiar with the signs of danger you should look for and the steps you can take to avoid becoming a victim of cybercrime. This module is available in 32 language versions.

KnowBe4 Basic Security Awareness Training Course

This fully interactive course takes you through two modules: Social Engineering Red Flags and Your Role*. Recognizing the tricks and techniques hackers are using against you and your organization is critical to staying safe. Join Sparr0w (a hacker) as he shares his insider knowledge and takes you behind the scenes to show you how it's done. Along the way, you’ll become familiar with the signs of danger you should look for and the steps you can take to avoid becoming a victim of cybercrime. Additionally, you will practice your security awareness skills through a number of engaging scenarios. * Abridged for inclusion in the 30-minute course.

Basics of Credit Card Security

This 20-minute module covers the basics of credit card security. It is meant for all employees in your organization who handle credit cards and/or credit card data. Employees will learn what the hackers are after, the techniques hackers use to try and gain access, and the best practices they can take to protect the organization and its valuable credit card data.

Mobile Device Security

This 15-minute module specializes in making sure your employees understand the importance of Mobile Device Security. They will learn the risks of their exposure to mobile security threats so they are able to apply this knowledge in their day-to-day job.

Creating Strong Passwords

In this interactive course you will learn about the important rules for creating strong passwords, you’ll test a password to see how strong it is, and learn about the latest trend in password security, the passphrase, and how to create one.

Handling Sensitive Information Securely

This 15-minute module of the Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness Training series specializes in making sure your employees understand the importance of safely handling sensitive information, like Personally Identifiable Information (PII), Protected Health Information (PHI), Credit Card data (PCI DSS), Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), including your organization’s proprietary information and are able to apply this knowledge in their day-to-day job for compliance with regulations. A version for Canada is also available.

Ransomware

This fun and engaging course will show you what ransomware is, how it works, and how to steer clear of potential threats. You’ll meet Sergeant Vasquez, head of our cyber security task force as he takes you through a line-up of the top attack vectors that bad guys use to hold your computer systems hostage until you pay the ransom.

Ransomware For Hospitals Training

Hospitals are currently targeted by cyber criminals, penetrating their networks and locking patient files with crypto-ransomware so that no data is accessible for any hospital worker. This short (7-minute) module gives anyone working in a hospital the basics of ransomware, email security and Red Flags they need to watch out for to help prevent very expensive attacks like this.

Financial Institution Physical Security (for Financial Institutions only)

This 20-minute module covers the protection of your employees, your customers and their funds, the premises, any security devices, computers, and networks, from physical circumstances and events that could cause serious losses or damage. This includes protection from robbery, kidnap/extortion, bomb threat, fire, natural disasters, burglary, and nuclear emergencies.

PCI Compliance Simplified

This 15-minute module uses real examples of credit card fraud, and how to protect your organization against this by being PCI compliant. This course is for anyone that’s responsible for handling credit cards in your organization and qualifies as Security Awareness Training. Especially owners, the CFO or Controller, managers and IT people in charge of credit card processing should take this course. The training covers topics like Merchant levels, Merchant types, Self Assessment Questionnaires, new changes in the industry, chip cards, TIP Program, Qualified Integrated Resellers and the key security requirements for any organization.

GLBA Security Awareness Training (for Financial Institutions only)

In this module, employees of financial institutions are stepped through the concepts of “Non-Public Personal Information”, or NPPI, best practices for protecting customers’ personal information, the employee's role in ensuring protection of NPPI, what is social engineering and how not to get tricked, how to protect against unauthorized access and misuse of protected information, and how to provide notice of an incident that may compromise customer information security.

Resources

UCG KB4 Executive Summary
Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness Training