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Insider Threat Awareness Training

Insider threats can devastate an organization. These threats are often hard to detect and are caused by negligent insiders, malicious insiders and/or external actors who infiltrate an organization. Insiders may be current or former employees, contractors, vendors, or trusted third parties. Insider attack strategies including cyber, physical, human and technology, often using a combination of these tactics. Motivations can be anything from financial gain to wanting to disrupt operations to get back at the company because of a bad review or missed promotion. Using threat intelligence skills and techniques to understand insider threats allows you to proactively defend your environment.

Provider Information

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Contact Information

Center for Threat Intelligence
11529 NE 107th Place
Kirkland, WA 98033

Course Overview

Overall Proficiency Level
0 - No Proficiency
Course Prerequisites

Students should be interested in learning the benefits and understanding and being aware of the characteristics of insider threat. No prerequisites are required.

Training Purpose
Functional Development
Management Development
Specific Audience
All
General Public
Delivery Method
Classroom
Course Location

Bellevue, WA 98004

  • Classroom

Learning Objectives

This one-day training provides attendees with an understanding and awareness of insider threats. Insider threats can devastate an organization.

Principal objectives of this course:

• Understand the definition of an insider threat this includes malicious and the accidental insider threat

• Enhance awareness of insider motivation

• Recognize insider tradecraft and techniques

• Identify insider related indicators

• Review legal aspects of insider threat programs

• Detecting insider threats

• Understand counterintelligence techniques

• Review insider threat programs

Who should attend?

• Security and Threat Intelligence Professionals: Enhance your career and skills and learn to proactively identify insider threat activities.

• Attorneys: Enhance legal activities, investigations and interviewing skills by creating an awareness of insider motivation and techniques.

• Managers and Executives: Understand insider threat indicators, motivation and tradecraft to prioritize and address risk.

• Risk, Compliance and Human Resource Professionals: Understand insider threats and enhance knowledge of potential risks before they happen.

• Federal Agents and Law Enforcement: Master techniques to identify insider threats for advanced investigations and to improve job skills. Participants will receive:

• Certificate of Completion

• Continuing Education Credits Available.

Framework Connections

The materials within this course focus on the NICE Framework Task, Knowledge, and Skill statements identified within the indicated NICE Framework component(s):

Competency Areas

Feedback

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