Are your staff as ready as they can be for the next attack?
Anna Zambrano leads our cybersecurity training with hundreds of clients and will share our knowledge on what works to keep your staff prepared, not just scared. Joined by Matt Eshleman, our CTO and cybersecurity expert, she will answer your questions on how to manage frequent, timely, and engaging training.
Cybersecurity Awareness Training Tips
Wednesday, February 26, 2025, at 3pm Eastern, Noon Pacific
We often say that staff training is a foundation for cybersecurity protections. As the risks are always evolving, your training needs to be current too. Gone are the days when your staff could be adequately protected by watching an hour long video with a quiz once a year.
But managing more frequent training is difficult. We will discuss the tool we use, KnowBe4, which makes it easy to stay up to date and administer training to all staff. There are other training tools out there that work for nonprofit staff – the most important tip is to commit to training and to prioritize it as a team. Your staff and leadership are your best defense of the organization you care about.
In addition, with new auditing requirements SAS145 your auditor must assess IT risks to your financial processes – and it will be necessary to demonstrate staff cybersecurity training in your audits.
Learn about these issues and more with our experts! If you’ve been putting off implementing a comprehensive cybersecurity awareness training regime, don’t wait any longer.
Join CTO Matthew Eshleman and Cybersecurity Analyst Anna Zambrano to learn how to implement an up-to-date and flexible cybersecurity awareness training program this year.
As with all our webinars, this presentation is appropriate for an audience of varied IT experience.
Community IT is proudly vendor-agnostic and our webinars cover a range of topics and discussions. Webinars are never a sales pitch, always a way to share our knowledge with our community. There are multiple cybersecurity awareness training vendors with products that work for nonprofits. We will be discussing the tool we have selected and use, but our insights and tips will be useful no matter what training program you are using, or if you want to create and run cybersecurity awareness training in house.
Many questions asked at registration or live at the virtual event will be answered in the transcript. Check back after the webinar for additional resources.
Presenters:
As the Chief Technology Officer at Community IT, Matthew Eshleman leads the team responsible for strategic planning, research, and implementation of the technology platforms used by nonprofit organization clients to be secure and productive. With a deep background in network infrastructure, he fundamentally understands how nonprofit tech works and interoperates both in the office and in the cloud. With extensive experience serving nonprofits, Matt also understands nonprofit culture and constraints, and has a history of implementing cost-effective and secure solutions at the enterprise level.
Matt has over 22 years of expertise in cybersecurity, IT support, team leadership, software selection and research, and client support. Matt is a frequent speaker on cybersecurity topics for nonprofits and has presented at NTEN events, the Inside NGO conference, Nonprofit Risk Management Summit and Credit Builders Alliance Symposium, LGBT MAP Finance Conference, and Tech Forward Conference. He is also the session designer and trainer for TechSoup’s Digital Security course, and our resident Cybersecurity expert.
Matt holds dual degrees in Computer Science and Computer Information Systems from Eastern Mennonite University, and an MBA from the Carey School of Business at Johns Hopkins University.
He is available as a speaker on cybersecurity topics affecting nonprofits, including cyber insurance compliance, staff training, and incident response. You can view Matt’s free cybersecurity videos from past webinars here.
Anna Zambrano joined the Community IT team as a Cybersecurity Administrator in 2023 and was promoted to Cybersecurity Analyst Tier II in 2024. Her primary focus is managing the KnowBe4 platform to train individuals at Community IT clients on security awareness.
Anna has a decade of broad Information Technology experience in both the private and public sectors, which includes working for two police departments as well as hands-on roles with hardware, software, networking, and cybersecurity.
Anna holds multiple awards and certificates including ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity, ISC2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner, CompTIA A+, Certified Network Security Specialist issued by ICSI, and Criminal Justice Information Services certifications.
Carolyn Woodard is currently head of Marketing and Outreach at Community IT Innovators. She has served many roles at Community IT, from client to project manager to marketing. With over twenty years of experience in the nonprofit world, including as a nonprofit technology project manager and Director of IT at both large and small organizations, Carolyn knows the frustrations and delights of working with technology professionals, accidental techies, executives, and staff to deliver your organization’s mission and keep your IT infrastructure operating. She has a master’s degree in Nonprofit Management from Johns Hopkins University and received her undergraduate degree in English Literature from Williams College. She is happy to be moderating this webinar.
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