Insider Threat Overview: Preventing, Detecting, and Responding to Insider Threats

Distance Learning | This training is completed

Access period is 12 months

1/1/2018-12/31/2018

Course Fees (USD)
eLearning: $350

This five (5) hour online course provides a thorough understanding of insider threat terminology, identifies different types of insider threats, teaches how to recognize both technical and behavioral indicators and outlines mitigation strategies.

Please note that successful completion of this course is a required component of the Insider Threat Program Manager, Insider Threat Vulnerability Assessor, and Insider threat Program Evaluator Certificate Programs.

This online course contains five (5) hours of video instruction presented by experts from the CERT Insider Threat Center. Additionally, the course includes questions to confirm and reinforce your understanding of the concepts presented. The topics you will study are:



  • Insider Threat definitions, issues, and types

  • Severity and impact of insider threat activity

  • Fraud: examples, dynamics, technical aspects, and countermeasures

  • Theft of Intellectual Property: examples, dynamics, exfiltration, and mitigation

  • Unintentional Insider Threat

  • Insider Threat Prevention, Detection, and Mitigation Strategies


There are no prerequisites for this course.



For a detailed course description, please go to Insider Threat Overview: Preventing, Detecting and Responding to Insider Threats

  • IMPORTANT NOTE: Please allow 2 business days to receive your CERT STEPfwd invitation to create a user account via email. It will be sent to the email address provided on the registration form. To ensure receipt of your access instructions, please add stepfwd-support@cert.org to your safe sender list.