Name: The Biggest Cyber Security Threat: Human Behavior
Price: 119 USD

What You'll Learn

check_circleIdentify Key Cybersecurity Threats: Understand the critical role of human behavior in cybersecurity breaches and recognize the importance of creating a security-first culture within your firm.

check_circleEvaluate the Impact of Cyber Attacks: Assess the potential consequences of cyber attacks, including ransomware, loss of reputation, client trust, malpractice, ethical violations, and financial ruin.

check_circleImplement Effective Cybersecurity Strategies: Learn and apply best practices in technology and human factors, such as Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR), encryption, and continuous security refinement.

check_circleEnhance Employee Awareness and Engagement: Develop and execute training programs to increase cybersecurity awareness and vigilance among employees, fostering a culture of engagement and proactive defense against social engineering and other cyber threats.

About This Course

Your firm’s cybersecurity is only as strong as your weakest link: your employees. 95% of all successful cyber breaches are due to human behavior. Human behavior is the biggest threat to your firm’s cybersecurity, and this webinar will show you how to address that threat. You’ll learn how to educate and train your team so that they help rather than hurt your cybersecurity. With these strategies, you can create a security-first culture that will help your firm survive and thrive in the face of the cyber pandemic.

Outline:

1. Introduction

The biggest cybersecurity threat: human behavior
Importance of creating a security-first culture for a firm

2. Cyber Attack Nightmares

Ransomware & Extortion
Loss of Reputation
Loss of Client's Trust
Malpractice
Ethical Violation & Loss of License
Financial Ruin

3. Truths

No such thing as too small
Ethical obligation - RPC 1.1 and 1.6(c)
Insurance won't protect you
InfoSec is essential, traditional IT isn't enough
Need to address tech and human factors

4. RPC Ethics and Confidentiality

ABA RPC 1.1, Competency - comment [8]
ABA RPC, Confidentiality of Information - 1.6

5. NIST Technology Standards

6. Technology Best Practices

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
Endpoint Detect & Respond (EDR)
Encrypt
Continuous Refinement
Active Security Team

7. Human Factors

Leading cause of cybersecurity breaches: 95% due to human behavior
Lack of awareness & training
Social engineering (Phishing & Spear-Phishing) - 90%
Human error - 63%
Insiders - innocent and on purpose
Poor communication

8. Know Your Enemy

Hacktivists
Organized Crime
State-sponsors
Script kiddies
Insiders

9. Exploiting Human Behavior

Social Engineering
Gets people to act on their behalf
Prey on lack of knowledge, fear, FOMO, continuous partial attention, curiosity, and trust

10. Top 3 Failure Points

Password Practices
Lack of Awareness (Training/Vigilance)
Not keeping software up to date

11. Common Attitude Problems

12. Essential Strategies

Training for Awareness & Response
Vigilance & Testing
Culture of Engagement

13. Training (Awareness & Behaviors)

Effective training - Action Learning
Poor design and lack of follow-up can lead to training failure

14. Vigilance (Trust and Verify)

15. Security First Culture

Elements of culture
Culture quiz

16. A Leader's Job

17. Employee Engagement

The engagement problem
Toxic behaviors undermine engagement

18. The Most Important Skill - Communication

19. Engagement Quiz

20. Putting it all together

21. Roadmap

22. Free Resources

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CLE Companion

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CLE Companion is a leading virtual Continuing Legal Education provider offering top-quality courses to lawyers across the US and Canada. Its mission is to utilize technologies to support the completion of CLE with unparalleled convenience and value.

Tom Kirkham

Founder and CEO of Kirkham IronTech

Tom Kirkham is the founder and CEO of Kirkham IronTech, which provides cybersecurity defense systems and training programs for companies looking to create security-first environments. As a cybersecurity thought leader, Kirkham brings more than three decades of software design, network administration, computer security and cybersecurity knowledge to organizations around the country. He frequently speaks about the latest security threats. The Cyber Pandemic Survival Guide is his first book.

Doug Brown, J.D.

Chief Learning Officer Summit Success, LLC | Executive Coach | Speaker | Strategist

Doug Brown, JD is a law firm consultant and growth strategist who helps law firm leaders protect, sustain and extend success so that its owners make more money, faster with less stress. Doug is an expert in helping teams achieve peak performance without the overwhelm or burnout that plagues the legal profession. He’s done this as an attorney, global business executive and professional educator. Doug designed and taught MBA programs in innovation, leadership, finance, and entrepreneurship as a Program Chair and Professor for The Malcolm Baldrige School of Business before being recruited to become the Executive Director of the Connecticut Bar Association. Today he is Chief Learning Officer and Head Executive Coach for Summit Success International - a personal and professional development firm.

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