Notice

TEEX - Cybersecurity Risk Awareness for Officials and Senior Management

The Office of Homeland Security will be hosting this non-technical course to help develop awareness of cybersecurity risks for elected officials, appointed officials, and other senior managers so they are better informed to properly protect their jurisdiction/organization from a cyber incident.

Upon successful completion of this course, participants shall have a better understanding of the cybersecurity risks that their jurisdiction/organization faces and how to work with their IT teams and other departments to mitigate those risks.

Topics:

• Overview of Cybersecurity

• Cybersecurity Risks to the Community

• Risk Management and Mitigation

 

Participants:

 

• Elected officials such as city council, mayor, county commissioner, county judge

• city managers

• chief information officers

• risk managers

• emergency management coordinators

• jurisdictional department heads

• directors of critical infrastructure such as power, water/wastewater, healthcare, transportation

• school district and higher education officials, and private company C-suite

 

Prerequisites:

• None

Recommendations:

• AWR175-W Information Security for Everyone

FEMA / SID Number

Students must register and bring a copy of their SID number to class. Register online at: cdp.dhs.gov/femasid

Lunch will be provided.