NCPC Courses

Cybersecurity for Drinking Water and Wastewater Operators

Cybersecurity Risk Awareness for Officials and Senior Management

AWR-383

Location:

Vermont Rural Water Association Vermont Fire Academy

93 Davidson Dr.

Pittsford, VT 05763

December 3, 2025

8:00 am - 3:30 pm

This training day will offer a total of 6 TCHs

Students must also be registered with the Vermont Rural Water Association training to be able to register for this course.

https://vtruralwater.org/event/cybersecurity-12-3/

This course is designed to develop awareness of cybersecurity risks so that elected officials, appointed officials, and other utility managers are better informed in order to properly protect the jurisdiction/organization from a cyber incident. This course will be delivered as part of a day-long training on cybersecurity with the Vermont Rural Water Association.

This National Cybersecurity Preparedness Consortium (NCPC) training course is developed by the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service and delivered by Norwich University Applied Research Institutes (NUARI). NCPC courses are fully funded by DHS/FEMA and provided at no direct cost to participants.

Course Description

This is a non-technical course meant to help officials and senior management work more effectively with their Information Technology (IT) and other departments to mitigate cyber threats. The training is tailored to government, critical infrastructure, and private sector personnel who have the responsibility for directing and developing policy within their organization.

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

Explain the basic concepts involved in cyber threats and cyber attacks
Describe how their jurisdiction/organization is at risk for a cyber attack and the impacts an incident could produce.
Formulate strategic actions the jurisdiction/organization can implement to better protect against, respond to, and recover from a cyber incident.

Target Audience

Whole Community; public, private, and non-profit
Executives
Management
Elected and appointed officials
Directors and personnel of critical infrastructure
Senior leadership roles in any organization

Prerequisites

United States citizen, permanent resident, or prior approval is required to attend this class.

Required Materials

Participants are required to have a laptop computer that can access a public wifi connection.

For registration issues, contact us at:
nuaritraining@nuari.org