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IS-906: Workplace Security Awareness

Course Date

10/31/2013

Course Overview

This course provides guidance to individuals and organizations on how to improve the security in your workplace. No workplace—be it an office building, construction site, factory floor, or retail store—is immune from security threats.

Employees are often the target of these threats as well as the organization's first line of defense against them. Threats endanger the confidentiality, integrity, and security of your workplace, as well as your virtual workplace and computer systems. This course presents information on how employees can contribute to your organization's security.

Course Objectives:

Upon completing this course, the participant will be able to:
  1. Identify potential risks to workplace security.
  2. Describe measures for improving workplace security.
  3. Determine the actions to take in response to a security situation

Primary Audience

All private-sector and public-sector employees.

Prerequisites

None

CEUs:

0.1

Course Length:

1 hour
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Final Exam
Notices
  • Test questions are scrambled to protect test integrity
 
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