IT Security Training Template

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Protect sensitive data with essential IT security training

This starter template outlines the main goals of information security, what’s at stake for businesses when it fails, and how to avoid and mitigate risk.

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Get a jump start on creating IT security training courses

This information security training template includes topics critical to a successful sensitive information protection training program. The fully customizable course uses interactive media to engage learners, increase knowledge retention, and provide strategies to reduce security risks.

Course template topics include:

  • The basics of information security
  • Potential impacts of a cybersecurity attack on customers, employees, and businesses
  • Common information security risks and how to prevent them 
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Sample learning objectives

Customize this educational template with your business’s information to quickly achieve organization-wide information security learning objectives. For example:

  • Define the three main goals of information security to safeguard data.
  • Explain what’s at stake for people and businesses in a data breach.
  • Identify common security risks and apply workplace knowledge to reduce them.
  • Demonstrate how to keep data safe in both digital and physical environments.

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Click and reveal interactions

Break up large information chunks to help learners move at their own pace

Collaborate

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Help learners identify and understand important terms through engaging graphics

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Knowledge check interactions

Reinforce key concepts with interactive flashcards, sorting, and matching assessments

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