The Northeast Homeland Security Regional Advisory Council (NERAC) is sponsoring a two-day Cybersecurity training, designed to provide first responders and school/town administrators with information on cyber attacks and other cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Two courses from the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) will be combined to create this two-day training: AWR-136 Essentials of Community Cybersecurity (4 hours) and MGT-384 Community Preparedness for Cyber Incidents (12 hours). Participants will be required to stay for both classes.

The training will take place on October 23rd – 24th, 2018 at the Stow Campus of the Massachusetts Firefighting Academy, located at 1 State Road, Stow, MA 01775. The training will run from 8:00am – 5:00pm each day unless otherwise specified. 

The training is recommended for emergency managers, IT specialists, public works, school, transportation, energy, and healthcare personnel, elected and appointed officials, and anyone involved with critical infrastructure or incident response in public or private organizations.

If interested, please register HERE by October 16th.

AWR-136

Provides individuals, community leaders, and first responders with information on how cyber attacks can impact, prevent, and/or stop operations and emergency responses in a community. The course also provides a cursory introduction to cybersecurity vulnerabilities, risks, threats, and countermeasures. More information can be found HERE.

MGT-384

Provides organizations and communities with strategies and processes to increase cyber resilience. During this 12-hour course, participants will analyze cyber threats and initial and cascading impacts of cyber incidents, evaluate the process for developing a cyber preparedness program, examine the importance and challenges of cyber related information sharing and discover low to no-cost resources to help build cyber resilience. More information can be found HERE.