Cyber Security Awareness Training Template for staffs of an Organization

Who needs Cyber Security Awareness Training

This template can serve as a training manual for organizations that want to organize cyber security awareness program for its staff. For maximum results, the points described below must be demonstrated using real life scenarios.

Summary

The content of this awareness template focuses on just three areas

Social Media usage

Email policy

Password Policy

The aim is enlighten the staffs of organizations and prepare them against various Social Engineering techniques which uses the channels stated above .

Protecting Organizational Network using Intrusion Detection Systems

The task of keeping organizations network secure isn't an easy one. There is no single tool for securing organisations network, rather it's a process and a continuous one. Various tools are available in helping organizations secure it's networks. Such tools include port scanning tools, application vulnerability detecting tools, firewalls, intrusion detection systems. In this article, the focus will be on IDS tools.

What is Intrusion Detection Systems

Intrusion detection systems are devices or software that monitors traffic over a network to identify malicious network activities by a user. Usually, when a malicious activities are detected, they are logged and alert sent to the network administrator. IDS are usually placed within a network in strategic positions or just outside the gateway to an organizations network.  

Intrusion prevention systems

Some IDS systems are also capable of stopping a malicious network when detected. Such systems are called Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems. This system attracts extra overhead because they have to be working realtime to be effective.