Cybersecurity Tabletop Exercise for Nonprofits
Wednesday, July 23, from 3-4pm Eastern, Noon Pacific
Community IT Chief Technology Officer and resident cybersecurity guru Matthew Eshleman will explain how to carry out a cybersecurity tabletop exercise for your nonprofit and why this type of active testing is so valuable to your security planning.
Make regular cybersecurity tabletop exercises part of your nonprofit incident response plan using this guide.
Do you regularly practice your nonprofit’s cybersecurity incident response?
If you haven’t had a cybersecurity incident yet, count yourself lucky. If you have, you probably encountered some questions you wish you had had the answers to before the incident began to unfold.
That’s where a cybersecurity tabletop exercise for nonprofit has enormous value. A cybersecurity tabletop exercise simulates a cybersecurity incident in a controlled environment so you can practice your response and discover weaknesses before they become damaging.
For example, a staff member alerts you that they clicked on a malicious link in an email and now their laptop is “acting funny.” Do you have a phone tree of the people you need to contact? What if someone important is on vacation, who do you contact then? What if everyone’s laptops are frozen, can you still access important contacts? What do you do next?
Cybersecurity tabletop exercises can be elaborate or simple, run by a consultant or run from within. It is surprising how many nonprofits that regularly review and evaluate their programming never use the same principles to evaluate their basic cybersecurity preparedness.
How can your nonprofit get started on this practice?
If you’ve never walked through a cybersecurity tabletop exercise at your nonprofit, you may be intimidated at the prospect or have trouble prioritizing it and carving out time on everyone’s calendar. In this webinar, Matt will introduce some popular resources, describe common examples of tabletop exercises, and explain how to adapt this skill-building exercise for nonprofits.
Matt Eshleman has run through cybersecurity tabletop exercises with many nonprofit clients and will guide you through best practices and first steps to get started. Don’t wait to introduce this valuable training tool to learn where you can strengthen your practices and better protect your organization in these challenging times.
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.
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 23 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 the Technology Association of Grantmakers, Jitasa, Nonprofit Learning Lab, 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, incident response, and cybersecurity tabletop exercises for nonprofits.
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-five 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 learn more about cybersecurity tabletop exercises for nonprofits with Matt Eshleman.
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