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This compliance-focused operational cybersecurity course is for IT assistants and other SMB support staff who manage backup routines, system resilience, and recovery readiness. It extends the SMB compliance catalog into practical ransomware-resilience behaviors that support risk management, recovery readiness, security governance, and documented annual training.
Backups are a business-survival control, not merely a technical housekeeping task. Ransomware, accidental deletion, and system compromise can threaten business continuity when backup practices are weak or untested.
This module explains how ransomware affects SMBs and why attackers often encrypt or destroy backups as well as live systems. Backup security is part of active cyber defense, not only disaster recovery.
This module teaches the 3-2-1 method as a simple, repeatable framework for backup resilience. It translates the model into operational decisions about copy count, storage diversity, and offsite or logically separated locations.
This module focuses on controls that make backups harder to alter, encrypt, or delete during an incident. It introduces immutability, access separation, privileged-account discipline, and basic backup hardening.
This module turns backup readiness into a repeatable operating rhythm. It covers job scheduling, alert review, log checking, failed-backup escalation, retention discipline, and routine housekeeping.
A backup is only useful if it can be restored successfully. This module focuses on monthly restoration tests, documentation, validation criteria, and lessons learned so SMBs can prove recoverability rather than assume it.
This module explains how IT assistants should respond when malware, ransomware, or suspicious administrative activity may threaten backup systems. It emphasizes fast escalation, containment support, evidence preservation, and avoiding unauthorized actions that could damage recovery options.
This final module reinforces backup-resilience behaviors and ties them to annual compliance documentation. It supports LMS tracking and provides a repeatable record that personnel were trained on secure backup handling and recovery testing.
This compliance-focused operational cybersecurity course is for IT assistants and other SMB support staff who manage backup routines, system resilience, and recovery readiness.
About 30 minutes, delivered across 8 modules with knowledge checks.
Why backups are critical for ransomware readiness and business continuity; How the 3-2-1 backup strategy works and why immutability matters when ransomware targets backup repositories and production systems; IT-assistant responsibilities for backup scheduling, storage separation, access discipline, and monitoring; How to run and document monthly restoration tests so backups are recoverable, not merely present; Warning signs that backups may be incomplete, exposed, misconfigured, or at risk during an active incident; How documented backup-hygiene training supports compliance, audit readiness, and operational resilience.
Yes. The course issues a certificate on completion. It ships SCORM 1.2 or 2004 with audio narration, captions, transcript, and runs on the Provisant learning platform.
$5 per user per course per year. Annual billing saves 20%. Any course in the catalog can be added to a plan.