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

Account Data Breach: Twitter

Hackers list database of 5.4 million records for sale

In January 2022, a vulnerability in Twitter's platform allowed an attacker to build a database of email addresses and phone numbers of millions of users of the social platform. In a disclosure...

Posted: October 19, 2022, 3:23 PM

Account Data Breach: StripChat

Millions of records exposed from an adult cam site

In November 2021, the live sex cams and adult chat website StripChat left several databases exposed and unsecured. In June the following year, over 65 million StripChat records appeared on a...

Posted: October 19, 2022, 3:03 PM