How to Provide Free Cybersecurity Training to Your Employees

The U.S. Department of Defense Cyber Exchange has a wide range of free training materials you can use to provide free cybersecurity training to your employees. These include interactive training programs and training posters. These free resources can help your company meet its cybersecurity compliance requirements.

The course provides an overview of cybersecurity threats and best practices to keep information and information systems secure. You can use this course to have your employees meet their annual training requirements. At the end of the course they will receive a certificate to verify that they completed it.

Recommended For: All Employees

Recommended Frequency: Annually

Training Link: Cyber Awareness Challenge

This interactive training explains what phishing is and provides examples of the different types of phishing. Given that 91% of cyberattacks start with a phishing email you should definitely have all your employees complete the phishing awareness training course.

Recommended For: All Employees

Recommended Frequency: Annually

Training Link: Phishing Awareness

This interactive presentation provides an introduction to social networking. It teaches employees to be aware of what they post online. If you have employees that handle sensitive information or have important roles then requiring them to complete this training once a year is a good idea. Hackers may try to target your employees via social media using various social engineering techniques.

Recommended For: Senior Management and personnel with access to sensitive information

Recommended Frequency: Annually

Training Link: Social Networking and Your Online Identity