Cybersecurity for Employees Working from Home

Author: Robert K Minniti

With the 2020 pandemic many organizations have employees working from home for the first time. This creates additional cyber security risks for the employees and their organizations.

This course is designed for employees who are working from home, who would like to obtain an understanding of data and cybersecurity. You have probably heard of some of the more common types of cyber crimes such as ransomware, spyware, computer viruses, phishing, vishing, spoofing, data breaches, denial of service attacks, hacking, etc.

This course is also designed to familiarize accounting, auditing, consulting, and tax professionals who are not information technology (IT) experts on data breach and cybersecurity risks and internal controls. We will cover the material in a plain language, nontechnical manner. We will cover what you need to know, but not how to write the computer programs or code.

Publication Date: April 2021

Designed For
CPAs, CFEs, CMA, CIAs, CFFs, MAFF, CGMAs, CFOs, CEOs, EAs, and others who prepare taxes or obtain and manage taxpayer information.

Topics Covered

• Cyber Fraud Statistics
• Cybersecurity Risks
• Legal Issues
• Cybersecurity Terminology
• Introduction to the Darknet
• Introduction to Cybersecurity
• Basic Internal Controls

Learning Objectives

• Describe cybersecurity
• Identify various types of cyber fraud risks
• Recognize cybersecurity risk for an organization
• Recognize IT system cybersecurity risks
• Recognize how to prevent and detect cyber frauds
• Describe what would use facial recognition to log you onto a computer
• Identify how to anonymously surf the web
• Recognize what is used in conjunction with the COSO framework
• Describe where you would most likely find online banking websites

Level
Basic

Instructional Method
Self-Study

NASBA Field of Study
Information Technology (2 hours)

Program Prerequisites
None

Advance Preparation
None