Cybersecurity Awareness & Training

Cybersecurity Assurance and Digital Trust offers a collection of best practices and resources, awareness material, and training resources. We plan to expand our training and awareness offerings over the next year to include newsletters and information on role based training. You can also review answers to our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on the UMBC Help pages.

Best Practices & Resources

Training Resources

For specific departments and individuals, UMBC provides a training program administered by the Division of Information Technology (DoIT). These training modules help us to fulfill federal and state audit requirements, and provide good general knowledge on information about a variety of topics in information technology security. Our testing has shown these hand-picked topics to be timely, relevant, and informative. The training modules are delivered on our campus learning management system:  Blackboard.  These training modules vary in length, averaging about 15 minutes each.  They may be started and stopped at any time, and do not have to be all completed in one sitting.  At the end, there is a short assessment; its completion satisfies our audit requirements and grants you the Employee Cybersecurity Awareness badge issued by Credly.  If you believe you should be assigned this training, please contact your supervisor or security@umbc.edu.

Recent Awareness Material

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WARNING - Report of an Insurance Scam

Scammer Claims To Be From UMBC

UMBC's Division of Information Technology (DoIT) received notification of a telephone insurance scam.  The call came from 1-443-887-3438 and the caller id display UMBC. THIS IS NOT A UMBC...

Posted: April 14, 2021, 1:30 PM

Another “Hiring for Research Assistants” Job Scam

More Fake Jobs Offers

The Division of Information Technology (DoIT) is receiving reports of a job scam claiming to offer a remote position to students to work for the Information Technology center. Below is an example...

Posted: April 13, 2021, 3:13 PM