Course Title: Building a Successful Enterprise Security Awareness Program (3 Day Course $1550 USD)

Course Summary
Often the simplest way attackers compromise your organization and it's information is through your employees. A comprehensive security awareness program is one of the most effective ways to protect against these risks. Our three day training class gives you everything you need to plan, deploy and maintain a successful enterprise awareness program. Learn from the experiences of other organizations, see what works and what does not work and how you can guarantee the success of your program. This program is ISO 27001 compliant and specifically designed for financial, government and telecommunication organizations in the GCC. In addition, upon completion you will receive the following.

• Certification as a Security Awareness Program Manager.
• A one year license to use HoneyTech's employee awareness course for your internal awareness program.
• A three month license to use HoneyTech's monthly security awareness newsletter (in Arabic and English), branded as your own.
• A free security awareness assessment for your organization.

HoneyTech are the leading experts in security awareness training. Their comprehensive program meets all of our needs and more. I cannot recommend them enough.

Course Details
As every organization is unique and so to should it's security awareness program. The topics we cover will allow you to build an awareness program customized to the unique needs of your organization, ensuring the long term success of both your program and your organization's security. The course is broken down into three days. The first day we start at the beginning, planning. Awareness programs are surprisingly complex, a well organized plan is critical especially for large organizations. We start with how to determine the scope and goals of your program. Then we transition into key issues such as identifying your customers, developing a project plan, integrating policies and identifying key organizational and cultural issues. Finally we cover how you can gain management's full support, including an awareness budget. During the second day we cover how to put all your materials and training together, including what to and what not to cover.

We discuss different training methods such as online training including LMS/SCORM environments, onsite training, different types of modules you should use, train the trainer and other programs. Finally, we cover how to present to employees, including five key mistakes to avoid. On the third day we cover how to deploy and maintain your program. We start with building excitement within your organization with awareness month. We then cover developing metrics and how to track the progress of your program. In addition we cover how to best use additional materials, including posters, newsletters and screensavers. The end result of the course is you will have all the skills and materials needed to quickly and successfully deploy an awareness program designed just for your organization. customize for your group.
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Your Instructor: Mr. Lance Spitzner
Lance Spitzner is internationally recognized as a leader in the field of cyber threat research, training and awareness. He invented and developed the concept of honeynets, is the author of the book Honeypots: Tracking Hackers and co-author of Know Your Enemy: 2nd Edition. He has published over thirty security whitepapers and articles, including several publications in the Know Your Enemy series. Mr. Spitzner worked for Sun Microsystems for four years as a senior security architect, helping secure Sun's customers around the world.

He is founder of the Honeynet Project; an international, non-profit security research organization that captures, analyzes, and shares information on cyber threats at no cost to the public. He has spoken to numerous organizations, including the NSA, FIRST, the Pentagon, the FBI Academy, the President's Telecommunications Advisory Committee, MS-ISAC, the Navy War College, the British CESG, the Department of Justice, and Monetary Authority of Singapore.

He has consulted around the world, working and presenting in over 20 countries on 6 different continents including Germany, Brazil, UAE, Oman, Singapore, Japan, India, Philippines, Norway, Australia, Poland, Mexico and the United Kingdom. His work has been documented in the media such as CNN, BBC, NPR, and Wall Street Journal. Mr. Spitzner serves on the Distinguished Review Board for the Air Force Institute of Technology, Technical Review Board for CCIED, Information Assurance Curriculum Advisory Board at DePaul University, and was one of the original faculty members of the SANS Institute. Mr. Spitzner earned a B.A. from the University of Illinois-Champaign and an M.B.A. from the University of Illinois-Chicago.

Why HoneyTech
Founded in 2003, our speciality is information security training and awareness in the GCC. Our trainers are recognized as leading experts around the world, having published books, presented as keynote speakers and worked in over twenty different countries with organizations such as the NSA, Federal Aviation Administration, Etisalat, Libyan Telecom and Abu Dhabi Exchange. Learn more at http://www.honeytech.com.