CYBER AWARENESS FOR EMPLOYEES WORKSHOP

CYBER AWARENESS FOR EMPLOYEES WORKSHOP

Funded

Course Duration

8.0 hr(s)

Mode of Assessment

Written Assessment, Oral Questioning, Written Test

Who Should Attend

This 1-Day Cyber Awareness for Employees Workshop is designed for companies who recognize the critical need for cybersecurity awareness and are eager to take their knowledge to the next level. It's the perfect fit for:

  • Companies seeking to improve their Cybersecurity Posture and want to learn of the Best Practices: Cybersecurity hygiene is paramount. Join us if you're dedicated to learning the best practices that can safeguard you and your organization against potential threats.
  • Anyone Seeking Intermediate Cybersecurity Knowledge: Whether you're an IT enthusiast or a professional from any background, this workshop caters to those who require an intermediate understanding of cybersecurity awareness.
  • Curious Minds Ready to Dive In: Are you fascinated by the world of hacking and want to understand it from both sides of the fence? This workshop offers a unique hands-on experience that takes you behind the scenes, revealing the hacker's perspective and empowering you with solutions to counteract their tactics.
  • Those Eager to Learn About Cyber Threats: If you're interested in demystifying the world of cyber threats and attacks, this workshop provides valuable insights. You'll gain a solid foundation in understanding the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity threats.

What's In It for Me

Our Cyber Awareness for Employees Workshop is not your typical cybersecurity awareness training. We believe in experiential learning—learning by doing. Here's why this workshop stands out:

  • Mindset and Behavioral Change: Our ultimate goal is to instill a strong cybersecurity mindset and drive behavioral changes. You'll emerge better equipped to thwart the ever-evolving and potent cyber threats.
  • Beyond Slides and Videos: While many cybersecurity awareness programs rely on slides and videos, we take a different approach. Our workshop is built upon actual attack scenarios in a controlled environment with test devices provided.
  • Government-Backed Content: This course incorporates content from cybersecurity toolkits for employees developed by the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA).

Join us for a transformative day of learning that will forever change how you perceive and defend against cybersecurity threats.

Course Overview


 

This 1-Day Cyber Awareness for Employees Workshop is one of the first cybersecurity awareness training in partnership with Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA) that is based on experiential learning, the process of learning by doing. By engaging learners in hands-on experiences and reflection, they are better able to connect theories and knowledge learned in the classroom to real-world situations. The activities are carefully curated and storyboarded to be fun and engaging, but also to show how easily people can be caught off guard. The key objective is to ensure a strong mindset and behavioral changes of learners, to better prevent them from succumbing to the evolving and potent cyber security threats. This course incorporates some content from the cybersecurity toolkits for employees developed by the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA).

 

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Course Schedule

Next available schedule

Course Objectives

Upon completing this course, participants will be able to:

  • Gain a comprehensive, up-to-date, and in-depth knowledge of different cyber-attacks targeting employees in organisations
  • Experience different types of cyber security internal and external threats with hands-on activities
  • Learn to apply countermeasures/best practices with hands-on activities

 


 

Pre-requisites

The admission requirements are:
No credit or certification pre-requisites required to take this course.

But it is recommended that participants know:

  • Simple typing using the keyboard
  • Navigating using the mouse
  • Managing files and creating folders
  • Hardware & Software

Course Outline

Module 1: Introduction to Cybersecurity and Cyber Incident Management

  • What is cybersecurity?
  • Cybersecurity landscape in Singapore and global
  • What are cyber criminals after?
  • Common cyberattacks targeting employees.
  • Introduction to Malware, 0-Days, Anti-virus, Cyber Kill Chain, zero trust.
  • Your role as an employee in helping to protect your organisation.
  • Introduction to incident, incident types and incident management

Module 2: Social Engineering

  • Types of Social Engineering: Phishing, Smishing, Vishing, Pretexting, QR Code, Jacking
  • Spot Phishing activity
  • Hands-on activities
  • Activity 1: Business Email Compromise: Email Spoofing
  • Activity 2: Instant message with Image embedded with malware
  • Activity 3: Social Media Form Jacking
  • Activity 4: Voice based Phishing and Voice cloning
  • Activity 5: QR Code based attack
  • Activity 6: Adversarial in the middle (AiTM) attack
  • How to defend yourself from social engineering attacks, and how to report cyber incidents

Module 3: Strong Passphrases

  • What are Passphrases and why is it important?
  • Importance of Multi Factor authentication
  • Hands-on activities
  • Activity 1: Brute force Attack
  • Activity 2: Credential Stuffing Attack
  • How to defend yourself from password-based attacks and how to report cyber incidents.

Module 4: Protect Your Corporate and/or Personal Devices

  • Why protecting personal devices is important for you and for your organisation.
  • Hands-on activities
  • Activity 1: Public WIFI: Man in the middle
  • Activity 2: Mobile Application malware
  • Activity 3: Malicious Mobile Cables
  • Activity 4: USB based attacks
  • Activity 5: Drive by Download
  • How to protect corporate and personal devices from attacks and how to report cyber incidents.

Module 5: Handle and Disclose Business-critical Data Carefully

  • What is business critical data and why is it important?
  • Identify and classify confidential and/or sensitive data
  • Personal Data Protection Act 2012
  • Prevent unauthorized disclosure of confidential and/or sensitive data
  • How to report confidential and/or sensitive data based cyber incidents

Module 6: Work Onsite and Telecommute in a Secure Manner

  • How is working onsite and telecommuting different?
  • Dos and don’ts of working onsite
  • Dos and don’ts of telecommuting
  • Hands-on Activity
  • Activity 1 : VPN and MITM

Module 7: Report Cyber incidents

  • How to spot cyber incidents
  • Reporting cyber incidents


 

Certificate Obtained and Conferred by

  • Certificate of Completion from NTUC LearningHub

Upon meeting at least 75% attendance and passing the assessment(s), participants will receive a Certificate of Attendance from NTUC LearningHub which includes CSA SG Cyber Safe logo to demonstrate our partnership with CSA and knowledge attained aligned with CSA SG Cyber Safe.

 

  • Statement of Attainment (SOA) from SkillsFuture Singapore

After passing the assessment(s), participants will receive a SOA from SkillsFuture Singapore, certifying that they have achieved the following Competency Standard(s):

  • ICT-OUS-2003-1.1 Cyber and Data Breach Incident Management

 

The following badge(s) will be imprinted on NTUC LearningHub Certificate of Attendance upon passing :

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Additional Details

Medium of Instruction: English
Trainer to trainee ratio: 1:20

Mode of Delivery: Physical class (F2F)

Courseware: Learner’s Guide on Canvas, tablet will be provided for hands-on cyber activities.

Price

Course Fee and Government Subsidies

 

Individual Sponsored

Company Sponsored

Non-SME

SME

Before GST

After GST

Before GST

After GST

Before GST

After GST

Full Course Fee

(For Foreigners and those not eligible for subsidies)

 $490.00

 $534.10

 $490.00

 $534.10

 $490.00

 $534.10

For Singapore Citizens aged 39 and below

and

For all Singapore Permanent Residents

(The minimum age for individual sponsored trainees is 21 years)

 $245.00

 $289.10

 $245.00

 $289.10

 $147.00

 $191.10

For Singapore Citizens aged 40 years and above

 $147.00

 $191.10

 $147.00

 $191.10

 $147.00

 $191.10

Funding Eligibility Criteria

Individual Sponsored Trainee

Company Sponsored Trainee

  • Singapore Citizens or Singapore Permanent Residents
  • From 1 October 2023, attendance-taking for SkillsFuture Singapore's (SSG) funded courses must be done digitally via the Singpass App. This applies to both physical and synchronous e-learning courses.​
  • Trainee must pass all prescribed tests / assessments and attain 100% competency.
  • NTUC LearningHub reserves the right to claw back the funded amount from trainee if he/she did not meet the eligibility criteria.
  • Singapore Citizens or Singapore Permanent Residents
  • From 1 October 2023, attendance-taking for SkillsFuture Singapore's (SSG) funded courses must be done digitally via the Singpass App. This applies to both physical and synchronous e-learning courses.​
  • Trainee must pass all prescribed tests / assessments and attain 100% competency.
  • NTUC LearningHub reserves the right to claw back the funded amount from the employer if trainee did not meet the eligibility criteria.

Remarks

Individual Sponsored Trainee

Company Sponsored Trainee

SkillsFuture Credit: 

  • Eligible Singapore Citizens can use their SkillsFuture Credit to offset course fee payable after funding.

PSEA:

  • To check for Post-Secondary Education Account (PSEA) eligibility for this course, visit:
    SkillsFuture (TGS-2023036634) for Face-to-Face class​
  • Scroll down to "Keyword Tags" to verify for PSEA eligibility.
  • If there is “PSEA” under keyword tags, the course is eligible for PSEA.  
  • And if there is no “PSEA” under keyword tags, the course is ineligible for PSEA. 
  • Not all courses are eligible for PSEA funding.

Absentee Payroll (AP) Funding: 

  • $4.50 per hour, capped at $100,000 per enterprise per calendar year.
  • AP funding will be computed based on the actual number of training hours attended by the trainee.
  • Note: Courses / Modules under Professional Conversion Programme (PCP) will not be eligible for AP funding claim.

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Prices are subject to other LHUB miscellaneous fees.

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