Description
How can school leaders help protect their students, staff, and district from growing cybersecurity threats? Cybersecurity for Educators provides practical, accessible guidance to help educators understand their role in protecting sensitive information and maintaining secure digital environments. In this 1-hour course, participants explore common cyber threats, including phishing, malware, business email compromise, and social engineering, while learning practical strategies for secure passwords, data storage, device use, remote work, and artificial intelligence.
The course also addresses cybersecurity incident response, Texas legal requirements, and the shared responsibility every employee has in protecting district systems and information. The course is approved by the Texas Department of Information Resources Certified Cybersecurity Training Program.
In this course you will learn:
- How to recognize common cybersecurity threats
- Ways to protect sensitive student and staff information
- Best practices for secure devices, passwords, and data
- How to respond to and report cybersecurity concerns
- Key Texas cybersecurity requirements and responsibilities
This course is aligned with Texas AI awareness training requirements and has been certified by the Texas Cyber Command (TXCC) for the period of September 1st, 2026 to August 31st, 2027.
The 2025/2026 course is also available in Spanish, we are currently working on the latest update.
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