The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Region 8 has opened registration for our next Active Shooter Preparedness Webinar. You either attended or registered for a previous CISA Region 8 event, and CISA would like to invite you to join this event, or share the registration information with others you feel would benefit.
ACTIVE SHOOTER PREPAREDNESS
CISA Region 8 invites you to participate in the CISA Region 8 Active Shooter Preparedness Webinar on October 17, 2023 at 10:00 am MDT. This awareness-level webinar is designed to provide tips on how to effectively develop or enhance planning efforts to prepare for and respond to an active threat. Reference the attached flyer for additional details.
Event Information
Date: Tuesday, October 17, 2023
Time: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm MDT
Registration Link: CISA Region 8 Active Shooter Preparedness Webinar
CYBERSECURITY AWARENESS MONTH
October is the 20th annual Cybersecurity Awareness Month and CISA provides many tools and resources to support efforts to protect against and mitigate cyber threats. Each week in October, CISA will spotlight one of the four key behaviors we encourage all to take now to protect ourselves online:
Turn on Multifactor Authentication
Update Your Software
Think Before You Click
Use Strong Passwords
Engage with cybersecurity experts to learn more about these actions through CISA’s webinar series, as we take a deeper dive into why we need to take these actions now.
Please join the conversation and collaborate with us to improve digital safety habits and bolster cybersecurity. Register for the webinars now!
October 3, 2023 | 2:00pm-2:30pm ET
Use passwords that are long, unique, and randomly generated. Use password managers to generate and remember different, complex passwords for each of our accounts, encrypt your passwords, and secure our passwords.
October 10, 2023 | 2:00pm-2:30pm ET
We need more than just a password to protect our online accounts; enabling MFA makes us significantly less likely to get hacked.
October 17, 2023 | 2:00pm-2:30pm ET
If a link looks a little off, think before you click. It could be an attempt to get sensitive information or install malware.
October 24, 2023 | 12:00pm-12:30pm ET
Don’t delay – when we see a software update notification, act promptly. Better yet, turn on automatic updates.
To connect with the Cybersecurity Awareness Month Team and explore and share CISA’s resources, including tipsheets, toolkits, presentations, webinars, checklists, and other tools, visit CISA.gov/cybersecurity-awareness-month. CISA has a comprehensive suite of Cybersecurity Training & Exercise products available for stakeholders and the CISA Tabletop Exercise Packages include numerous Cybersecurity and Cyber-Physical Convergence scenarios.
SECURE OUR WORLD
CISA announced the launch of “Secure Our World,” a nationwide cybersecurity public awareness campaign to educate all Americans on how to stay safe online. The campaign includes a public service announcement (PSA) that will air on stations around the country, as well as digital content, a toolkit, and other resources. Recognizing that technology is an integral part of our modern lives, Congress tasked CISA with creating this program to provide small businesses, communities, and individuals with the guidance and tools they need to protect themselves online.
By equipping individuals, families and businesses with the knowledge and resources needed to protect ourselves and our digital assets, the Secure Our World program promotes safe online practices as an everyday activity we should all adopt, especially when connected, and helps empower all of us to make informed decisions about our cyber habits.
The Secure Our World program is a year-round, enduring effort to educate individuals and small to medium-sized businesses about how to stay secure online, and it provides resources to improve cybersecurity habits to increase resilience against cyber threats.
For individuals and families, the Secure Our World program emphasizes the importance of securing personal accounts, offering guidance on personal device safety, safe internet browsing practices, social media usage, and protecting personal information online.
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) face unique challenges, so we are working to help them Secure Our World by offering tools and resources that can help boost SMB’s cybersecurity defenses and minimizes the risk of data breaches or cyber-attacks, making not only our businesses, but our communities safer.
Tech manufacturers can Secure Our World by implementing security features built-in by design. Default settings should have the highest security measures implemented, and individuals can manually bypass security features if they don’t want them. Users should not have to opt-in to necessary security measures.
The Secure Our World program leverages partnerships and collaborations with government, tribes, industry partners, and cybersecurity experts to ensure access to up-to-date resources such as guidance on personal device safety, safe internet browsing practices, social media usage, and protecting personal information online. We encourage everyone to explore resources to keep you and your family safe by visiting Secure Our World | CISA, following us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and YouTube, and using the hashtag #SecureOurWorld.
SECURITY PLANNING PRODUCTS
Security Planning Workbook
CISA is pleased to announce the release of a new resource titled, Security Planning Workbook, which can assist critical infrastructure owners and operators with developing a foundational security plan. This workbook is designed to be flexible and scalable to suit the needs of most facilities. It is intended for any individual who is involved with an organization’s security planning efforts, including those with varying degrees of security expertise, who are charged with the safety and security of facilities and people. This product also provides descriptions of critical elements of security planning information, offers a multitude of resources, and includes fillable fields to guide stakeholder efforts.
For more information and to access this workbook, visit: https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/security-planning-workbook
Protecting Houses of Worship Infographic
CISA released a new resource titled, Protecting Houses of Worship: Perimeter Security Considerations Infographic that is a companion piece to CISA’s and the FBI’s co-branded Protecting Places of Worship: Six Steps to Enhance Security Fact Sheet. The infographic provides Houses of Worship stakeholders with low- to no-cost protective measures to enhance physical security. It also highlights grants and resources available to assist houses of worship in conducting vulnerability assessments, developing and updating security strategies and plans, bolstering physical security, and minimizing the impact of a potential attack.
For more information and to access this product, visit: https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/protecting-houses-worship-perimeter-security-considerations-infographic
Please reference the CISA Region 8 Training Events Collection page on Eventbrite for events hosted by Region 8.