Protect Your Clients - A Practical Guide to Cybersecurity

This course explains the importance for real estate licensees to be proactive against online threats to their business and their clients. This course will describe cybersecurity, cyber threats, and responses to those threats.

The course is broken into three sections:

• Chapter 1 - Reasons for Cybersecurity: This chapter explain the purpose and importance of being aware of internet-based risks.
• Chapter 2 - Cyber Threats: This chapter covers the three main categories of online threats: malware, social engineering, and connectivity threats. Each category is further divided and identifies common types of attacks.
• Chapter 3 - Cyber Responses: This last chapter breaks down the chain of a cyberattack and how licensees can protect themselves from each link of the attack chain.

Course Content

This Oregon real estate course consists of three chapters of online reading materials. At the end of each chapter is an optional 5-question quiz. An optional final exam is presented at the end of the course. A continuing education course completion certificate usable towards Oregon REA continuing education requirements will be issued after completing the course.