Cybersecurity Fundamentals for Water and Wastewater Utilities
January 27-28, 2021 | Online :: Central Time
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Overview
The new Cybersecurity Fundamentals course for Water and Wastewater utility professionals will provide a general overview of cybersecurity program development. This online course will give organizational leaders a practical knowledge of basic security measures that can be implemented to address major cyber risks associated with the most common cyber-attacks. Water and Wastewater industry leaders attending this course will learn about the most common cyber threats, specific counter measures that can be employed by any organization, and the role organizational culture plays in impacting risk mitigating activities against water and wastewater facilities’ critical infrastructure. Leaders will also develop an understanding of how people, processes and technology all work together improve cyber defense efforts.
The key take away from this course is to provide organizational leadership with knowledge needed to be able to ask their team of cyber security professionals the right questions when conducting and internal assessment of their organization’s cybersecurity posture and ability to be resilient to cyber-attacks.
Learning Outcomes
- Analyze leading trends in next-gen cyber challenges and innovative solutions
- Discuss social engineering tactics and business email compromise mitigation
- Review risk management methodology and assessments
- Communicate strategies for effective cybersecurity prioritization
- Distinguish important information on cyber contracting and litigation
Credits
EUCI has been accredited as an Authorized Provider by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET). In obtaining this accreditation, EUCI has demonstrated that it complies with the ANSI/IACET Standard which is recognized internationally as a standard of good practice. As a result of their Authorized Provider status, EUCI is authorized to offer IACET CEUs for its programs that qualify under the ANSI/IACET Standard.
EUCI is authorized by IACET to offer 1.0 CEUs for this event.
Requirements for successful completion of program
Participants must login each day and be in attendance for the entirety of the course to be eligible for continuing education credit.
Instructional methods
PowerPoint presentations and open discussion
Agenda
Wednesday, January 27, 2021 : Central Time
8:30 – 9:00 a.m. :: Login and Welcome
9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. :: Course Timing
12:00 – 12:30 p.m. :: Lunch Break
Introduction to Cyber Threat for Water and Wastewater Utilities
- The Most Common Cyber Threat Attack Vectors
- Who are the attackers and what do they want
- The Basics about Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) Teams
- The Water ISAC Best Practices
- Cybersecurity Policy
- The Types of Assessments and Why You Would Use Them
Social Engineering
- Phishing, Vishing, Smishing
- Other Social Engineering Methods
- Being Smart in the Digital World
Business Email Compromises
- Definition
- Supply Chain
- Process Control
- Procurement Controls
- Email Security
Lunch Break
Open Discussion on Ransomware and Other Common Malware Variants
General Overview of Technical Counter Measures
- Cybersecurity Hardware
- Cybersecurity Software
- The Cloud
- Basic Enterprise Architecture
General Overview of Defensive Architecture
- Defining Zero Trust
- Secure Access Service Edge (SASE)
- Defense in Depth
Thursday, January 28, 2021 : Central Time
8:30 – 9:00 a.m. :: Login and Welcome
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. :: Course Timing
Basic Elements of Incident Response (Responding to Cyber Attacks)
- Cyber Incident Management Framework
- Communications Planning
- Cyber Incident Walk Through
Cyber Resiliency
- Emergency response plan
- The Triad of Emergency Response Planning – Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery and Cyber Incident Response
- Continuity of operations plan or disaster recovery plan
- Crisis management teams
- Manuel overrides and temporary manual operations
- System redundancy
Assessing Risk and Making Risk Based Decisions
- Cyber Risks are different from Financial, and Operational Risks
- Using Threat, Cybersecurity Assessments, Audits and Penetration Tests
- Developing meaningful compensating controls
- Creating the Realistic Risk Assessment
Establishing the Value Proposition for Cybersecurity
Wrap up and Adjourn
Instructor
Jake Margolis, CISSP, Chief Information Security Officer, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
Jake Margolis is the Chief Information Security Officer of Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. Jake is an experienced and innovative IT and cybersecurity professional and military veteran with a proven leadership background. Mr. Margolis graduated with his Bachelor of Science in Computer Applications and Networks from Coleman College. Jake has also received a master’s degree in Information Systems and Technology Management.
Online Delivery
We will be using Microsoft Teams to facilitate your participation in the upcoming event. You do not need to have an existing Teams account in order to participate in the broadcast – the course will play in your browser and you will have the option of using a microphone to speak with the room and ask questions, or type any questions in via the chat window and our on-site representative will relay your question to the instructor.
- You will receive a meeting invitation will include a link to join the meeting.
- Separate meeting invitations will be sent for the morning and afternoon sessions of the course.
- You will need to join the appropriate meeting at the appropriate time.
- If you are using a microphone, please ensure that it is muted until such time as you need to ask a question.
- The remote meeting connection will be open approximately 30 minutes before the start of the course. We encourage you to connect as early as possible in case you experience any unforeseen problems.
Register
Please Note: This event is being conducted entirely online. All attendees will connect and attend from their computer, one connection per purchase. For details please see our FAQ
If you are unable to attend at the scheduled date and time, we make recordings available to all registrants for three business days after the event
| Event | Standard Rate | Attendees | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single Connection - Cybersecurity Fundamentals for Water and Wastewater Utilities | US $ 1195.00 | ||
| Pack of 5 connections | US $ 4,780.00 | ||
| Pack of 10 Connections | US $ 8,365.00 | ||
| Pack of 20 Connections | US $ 14,340.00 | ||
| Call us at 303.770.8800 if you have any specific questions on the volume discounts | |||
| * all other discounts do not apply to license packs | |||
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Cancellation Policy
Your registration may be transferred to a member of your organization up to 24 hours in advance of the event. Cancellations must be received on or before December 18, 2020 in order to be refunded and will be subject to a US $195.00 processing fee per registrant. No refunds will be made after this date. Cancellations received after this date will create a credit of the tuition (less processing fee) good toward any other EUCI event. This credit will be good for six months from the cancellation date. In the event of non-attendance, all registration fees will be forfeited. In case of conference cancellation, EUCIs liability is limited to refund of the event registration fee only. For more information regarding administrative policies, such as complaints and refunds, please contact our offices at 303-770-8800
