National Insider Threat Awareness Month

National Insider Threat Awareness Month (NITAM) is a month-long campaign throughout September that brings thousands of U.S. security professionals and policy makers from Government and industry together to focus on the dangerous risks of insider threat. First established in 2019, NITAM emphasizes the importance of preparing the workforce through education and awareness training. New training materials are available on the NITAM website throughout the month.

Physical Security and Asset Protection

There are still seats available for CDSE's "Physical Security and Asset Protection" instructor-led course October 21-25. This course provides students the ability to identify and utilize regulatory guidance, methodologies, and concepts for protecting DOD assets. This course is tailored for DOD civilian and military personnel, as well as contractors involved in the planning and management of physical security programs. For more information, visit the course page.

CDSE Education Academic Courses and Programs

CDSE has established a program of advanced and graduate courses designed specifically to broaden DOD security specialists' knowledge and understanding of the security profession and prepare them for leadership positions and responsibilities. All courses are tuition-free and offered in a virtual instructor-led environment. Education courses have been evaluated by the American Council on Education (ACE) for credit recommendations. The ACE College Credit Recommendation Service (CREDIT©) connects CDSE workplace learning with colleges and universities by helping employees gain access to academic credit for formal courses and examinations taken outside traditional degree programs. Registration is restricted to U.S. Government civilian employees and U.S. military service members. For more information on these courses, visit the Education page.

Instructor-led Cybersecurity Course at CDSE in December

CDSE is offering an instructor-led course on Assessing Risk and Applying Security Controls to NISP Systems (CS301.01) in December.  This course is tuition free and runs December 2-5 in Linthicum, MD.  Students should have completed enrollment (prerequisites and registration) by November 15. The target audience for this training includes Information System Security Managers (ISSMs), Information System Security Officers, and Facility Security Officers (FSOs) involved in the planning, management, and execution of security programs for cleared industry.  This five-day course provides students with guidance on applying policies and standards used throughout the U.S. Government to protect information within computer systems, as delineated by the risk management framework process. To learn more, register, and view the required prerequisites, visit the course page.

Adjudicator TW 2.0 Gap Training

CDSE is presenting the Trusted Workforce 2.0 Overview for National Security Adjudicators on October 22 from 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. ET. This virtual instructor-led webinar will cover the changes and reforms driven by Trusted Workforce (TW) 2.0 that impact National Security trust determinations. These Federal personnel vetting (FPV) reforms aim to better support agencies’ missions by reducing the time required to bring new hires on-board, enabling mobility of the Federal workforce, and improving insight into workforce behaviors. This webinar contains exercises in identifying and defining FPV Framework, Adjudicative Process Framework, FPV Investigative Standards, Trust Determinations, FPV Scenarios, and Unconscious Bias.

Participation is limited to 400 attendees, so please sign up today! For more information and to register, visit the course page.

Insider Threat Toolkits

Looking for an insider threat toolkit? CDSE has you covered. Toolkits provide great information for your role in the insider threat field. Resource topics include training and awareness, vigilance, establishing a program, targeted violence, and so much more. There are even links to eLearning courses and job aids. To learn more about the insider threat resources CDSE offers, visit the toolkit.

The Advancement of Insider Risk Education Journal

Check out the inaugural edition of the AIRE (Advancement of Insider Risk Education) Journal, an annual publication for the professionalization of counter-insider threat program personnel. Readers will find a collection of training, education, and professionalization efforts related to mitigating insider risk. This publication aims to offer an in-depth look at available resources, training needs, development, trends, and challenges across the DOD, USG, and industry. For more information, view the journal.

New Insider Threat Short

The Insider Threat Fact Finding short is one of CDSE’s newest training resources. Enhance your understanding of the interconnected, multi-disciplinary approach used by insider threat programs to collect multiple data points from divergent sources and to combine them in ways that regard the “whole person” when detecting and assessing potential risk. View the short to learn more.

Insider Threat Detection Analysis Course

Insider threats are one of the biggest risks to national security. Learn the latest analytic techniques with CDSE’s virtual instructor-led “Insider Threat Detection Analysis” course. During this five-day course, attendees will apply critical thinking skills and applicable structured analytic techniques to potential insider threat indicators. This course also allows learners to obtain and use holistic data in conjunction with the application of critical pathway theory. Some prerequisites apply. For more information and the course schedule, visit the course page.

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