Cyber Security Awareness for Faculty and Staff
Why colleges run this
Colleges hold student records, fee data and identity documents. The attacks that succeed are ordinary ones, and awareness is the cheapest control available.
Course outcomes
CO1
Identify the attack patterns that most often succeed against institutions
K2CO2
Apply account and device controls that resist credential attacks
K3CO3
Classify student data by sensitivity and describe how each class may be shared
K4CO4
Recognise an incident in progress and take the correct first containment step
K3CO5
Explain the institution's reporting obligations when personal data is exposed
K2Modules tap a module for its theory & lab
Hours shown are the recommended 2-day format — module time scales to the duration you pick.
01How colleges get breached4 h
Theory
Phishing, credential reuse, unpatched systems, insider error
Lab
Walk a real breach timeline
Output
Annotated breach timeline
02Protecting accounts and data4 h
Theory
Passwords, second factors, device hygiene, safe sharing of student data
Lab
Audit your own account posture
Output
Personal security checklist
03Responding and reporting4 h
Theory
Recognising an incident, containment, who to tell, DPDP obligations
Lab
Tabletop exercise on a simulated incident
Output
Departmental response note
Every participant receives
Certificate of completion Course material LMS access Interview question bank Mock interview & viva practice