Cybersecurity Training Resources

[Michael Vlieger]

I'm looking to put together some basic cybersecurity training for my fellow faculty members at our school. It's clear we need to brush up on things like phishing scams, password best practices, data protection, and safe browsing habits—nothing overly technical, just solid, practical knowledge we can all use.

If you've come across any good programs, online courses, toolkits, or even videos or articles that worked well for your staff, I'd love to hear what you used and what you thought of it. Free is great, but I’m open to paid resources too if they’re worth it.

Appreciate any leads—thanks in advance!

In His service, 

Michael Vlieger 5/6 Classroom Teacher Technology Coordinator | Risen Savior 507-388-6624 vli...@rslsmn.com risensaviorlutheranschool.com 516 West 7th St. “Educating Minds, Nourishing Souls”

[Ethan Mallow]

KnowBe4 is a cybersecurity training company that has a decent amount of free resource kits. They have one specific for Cybersecurity Month (October), where they map content out for each week, along with phishing, password security, and other training. Just a heads up, part of getting those resources requires you to give them contact information, so be prepared for them to be good salespeople and reach out to offer other products. They also have pretty solid paid resources, such as automated training that changes based on how each person does on previous lessons/phishing tests (their pricing is per person and is readily found on their website).

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA, gov entity) also has a decent amount of free stuff (such as posters). Here is a link to a webpage of theirs that has links to free cybersecurity resources for K-12 Teachers and they also have stuff for students. While I haven't tried/looked at many of them, I figure that CISA does a solid job of picking good resources.

The Center for Development of Security Excellence (CDSE, gov entity) have a good variety of posters that you can find here. While its not any formal training, they have some good visuals that you can utilize as constant reminders by placing them in high traffic areas. You can download them from the website and/or print them on 8.5x11 or 17x22 (I would recommend laminating them).

The SANS Institute (non-gov entity) has some good resources, but not always the easiest to find applicable ones, as they are more focused on larger businesses/manufacturing and offering paid courses. You also do have to make an account to download any of their free posters, but they allow you to opt out of phone calls, mail, and email.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST, gov entity) has a solid catalogue of free learning content on this link.

The biggest hurdle that you might hit is getting faculty & staff to actually go through and complete the training. Depends on your relationships and whether or not they feel like they already have enough/too much to do. So it might be a good idea to start small and slowly build up what you want them to complete.

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Winnebago Lutheran Academy

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[Denice Turpin]

We use KnowBe4 at work. I've found that the phishing test emails that come out monthly have really helped people understand what kinds of things they should watch for. 

Denice

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[Jason Schmidt]

In addition to KnowBe4, take a look at Infosec (we use it in my school district, and it is much less expensive than any other option). We also looked at Cybernut, but it didn't have some of the reporting tools we wanted. Might be a good training tool though, since it gamifies training. https://www.cybernut.com/

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