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Cyber Toa Launches Cyber Outreach

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14 October 2016

Cyber Toa Launches Cyber Outreach – Cyber Security Awareness Training

Cyber Toa has today launched Cyber Outreach – general cyber security awareness training for employees. Delivered in house by highly experienced instructors, this 90min training course is intended to raise the cyber awareness understanding within an organisation by communicating best practice that can be applied with maximum effect and minimum effort. Cyber Outreach brings real world cyber issues facing the workforce to life, and can be delivered to groups of up to 30 at a time.

Today marks the end of Connect Smart Week, aimed at improving the cyber security awareness and capability of individuals in the workplace. Communications Minister, Amy Adams, launched Connect Smart Week on Monday, drawing attention to recent Colmar Brunton research showing that only 17% of New Zealanders have received cyber security awareness training at work. This despite the fact that sophisticated, targeted attacks on employees are on the increase. This statistic alone shows just how far behind we are in cyber security awareness. In a similar survey in the US last year only 45% had received no training at work.

Cyber Toa offers a range of accredited cyber security courses for technology professionals and executives, and with today’s launch of Cyber Outreach addresses the specific need for more general awareness training.

About Cyber Toa

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Cyber Toa provides world class cyber security expertise to enterprise clients, offering a range of consulting services, including risk assessments, penetration testing and incident response management. For delivery of cyber security training programmes Cyber Toa is a SEI Partner (Software Engineering Institute of Carnegie Mellon University).

In partnership with Victoria University of Wellington, Cyber Toa is creating a Centre of Excellence for Teaching and Research for Cyber Security along with a world leading Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT). The CSIRT is overseen by Cyber Toa’s Director of Cyber Operations, Chris Ward who has established and managed CSIRTs in the United Kingdom and New Zealand. He acted as Advisor to the NATO CSIRT and is the only SEI Risk Instructor in the Asia-Pacific region accredited to establish a CSIRT.

To learn more about Cyber Toa please visit www.cybertoa.com


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