Champlain College Combats Cyber Crime During National Cyber Security Awareness Month

In recognition of National Cyber Security Awareness Month, Champlain College Online is hosting a special webinar – “Something is Phishy: The War on Cyber Crime” – to address today’s cyber threats and proven measures to protect users, businesses and government from malicious activity. During an era when cyber crime will cost the U.S. economy $2 trillion by 2019, Champlain’s webinar will provide participants with tactical and strategic solutions to understand and thwart cyber crime across their organization.

“Cyber challenges continue to dominate public discourse and its severity has prompted the White House to appoint the first ever Chief Information Security Officer, a position specifically designed to address the complex nature of cybersecurity,” said Ric Messier, Cybersecurity Program Director at Champlain College. “Since security is everyone’s problem we need to do a better job at educating all users of the risks to themselves as well as the businesses they work in. Luckily there are simple and effective ways to improve skills and practices that lead to more secure operations enterprise wide.”

Champlain is a two-time winner of SC Magazine’s Best Cybersecurity Higher Education award (2013 & 2015) and is designated since 2006 as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education by the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security.

About Champlain College

Founded in 1878, Champlain College is a small, not-for-profit, private college in Burlington, Vermont, with additional campuses in Montreal, Quebec and Dublin, Ireland. Champlain offers a traditional undergraduate experience from its beautiful campus overlooking Lake Champlain and more than 60 online undergraduate and graduate degree programs and certificates. Champlain's distinctive career-driven approach to higher education embodies the notion that true learning occurs when information and experience come together to create knowledge. Champlain College is included in the Princeton Review's The Best 381 Colleges: 2017 Edition. Champlain College is featured in the "Fiske Guide to Colleges" for 2016 as one of the "best and most interesting schools" in the United States, Canada and Great Britain. Champlain was named “Most Innovative School” in the North by the U.S. News and World Report’s 2017 “America’s Best Colleges” and #91 in the overall list of “Best Regional Universities in the North.” For more information, visit www.champlain.edu.

About truED®

truED is developed and supported as part of Champlain College's Online Continuing Professional Studies Division. Through the affordable truED model, and alliances with leading organizations in government and industry, Champlain College delivers accessible and immediately applicable online higher education to help employees gain the skills and knowledge needed to enhance their careers and achieve their organization's business objectives. Champlain's certificate and degree programs not only provide field-specific knowledge, but also the critical thinking, problem solving, and communication skills essential for the modern workforce. For more information about truED, visit http://www.champlain.edu/truedalliances.

View source version on businesswire.com: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20161024005883/en/