Insider Threat Awareness Training

Distance Learning | This training is completed

Access period is 12 months (Group Reg Only)

1/1/2019-12/31/2019

Course Fees (USD)
eLearning: $25

This one hour course provides a basic understanding of insider threats within an organization and what employees should be aware of in their responsibilities to protect an organization’s critical assets. This course explains how your work can be affected and how you can be targeted by Insider Threats.

This training is based upon the research of the CERT Insider Threat Center of the Software Engineering Institute. The CERT Insider Threat Center has been researching this problem since 2001 in partnership with the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Secret Service, other federal agencies, the intelligence community, private industry, academia, and the vendor community. This training is necessary for compliance with the anticipated guidelines set forth in the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual (NISPOM) in accordance with Executive Order 13587.

This online course contains one hour of narrated instructional content and includes questions to confirm and reinforce your understanding of the concepts presented. Actual cases are used to demonstrate Insider Threat risk, activity, and consequence. The topics you will study are:


  • Insider Threat – It may not be what you think

  • What is an Insider Threat and how it affects you

  • Types of Insider Threats

  • Impacts of being an Insider Threat

  • How to protect yourself and your organization

There are no prerequisites for this course.


  • IMPORTANT NOTE: AVAILABLE FOR GROUP REGISTRATION ONLY. Please allow 2 business days after payment has been processed 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.