Webcast
Cybersecurity Risk Management Trends
Review the cybersecurity threats, control strategies, and reporting considerations that matter most to organizations today. This course helps accountants and tax professionals better understand how to protect sensitive data, reduce fraud risk, and support a stronger cybersecurity risk management framework.
$98.00
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Secure Transaction CPE Credits
2 Credits: Auditing
Course Level
Basic
Format
Webcast
Course Description
Cybersecurity risk is no longer just an IT issue—it is a business, financial, and compliance issue that affects every organization handling sensitive data. This CPE course examines current cybersecurity risk management trends, including phishing, social engineering, credential attacks, ransomware, data exposure, and risks tied to cloud vendors, third parties, remote work, and AI-enabled fraud. It also highlights the practical controls organizations can use to reduce exposure, from MFA, encryption, and access controls to backups, patching, training, and penetration testing.
Designed for accountants and tax professionals, this CPE webcast also connects cybersecurity risk to governance, incident response, wire fraud prevention, data handling practices, and regulatory expectations. Participants will review key considerations for receiving, storing, transmitting, retaining, and destroying data, along with SEC cybersecurity disclosure requirements and AICPA guidance that can support the design and evaluation of a cybersecurity risk management program.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Identify common cybersecurity threats affecting organizations, including phishing, ransomware, credential attacks, data exposure, and third-party vulnerabilities.
- Recognize practical controls that help reduce cybersecurity risk, including MFA, encryption, logical access controls, patching, backups, and user awareness training.
- Distinguish sound practices for receiving, storing, transmitting, retaining, and destroying sensitive data.
- Determine key response considerations following a data breach, including notification, legal, operational, and reputational factors.
- Recall selected SEC cybersecurity disclosure requirements and AICPA resources relevant to cybersecurity risk management and reporting.
Course Specifics
WC1924395993
September 13, 2024
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Compliance Information
CFP Notice: Not all courses that qualify for CFP® credit are registered by Western CPE. If a course does not have a CFP registration number in the compliance section, the continuing education will need to be individually reported with the CFP Board. For more information on the reporting process, required documentation, processing fee, etc., contact the CFP Board. CFP Professionals must take each course in it’s entirety, the CFP Board DOES NOT accept partial credits for courses.
Meet The Experts
Jennifer F. Louis, CPA has over 25 years experience in designing and instructing high-quality training programs in a wide variety of technical and “soft skills” topics needed for professional and organization success. In 2003 she founded Emergent Solutions Group, which is dedicated to meeting organization’s professional training needs on a project or part-time basis. Jennifer serves a wide variety of clients, including public accounting firms, state CPA societies, private industry corporations, and public sector agencies.Previously Jennifer served as the Director of Audit Product Development at Surgent Professional Education for three years. Prior to that, Jennifer was Executive Vice President/Director of …
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