Protect Your Clients - A Practical Guide to Cybersecurity [Mandatory]

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 Materials

The course contains approximately forty-five pages of text. The course is divided into three sections. A review quiz of five questions follows each chapter. A quiz score of 70% or greater is required prior to being allowed to proceed to the next course section.

At the end of the course a final examination of 15 multiple-choice questions is required. A test score of 75% or greater is required for course completion.

The Real Estate Division requires that the final examination is not downloadable or printable. The student will be notified of the number of questions answered correctly after final examination has been completed. The student will not be given the questions which were answered incorrectly.