AFOA Manitoba
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Registration now open for the AFOA Manitoba’s IT Workshop – Security and Information Protection on April 23 and April 24, 2025
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As Information Technology (IT) effects everyone working in the community or organization, this workshop will present an overview of the knowledge required to ensure adequate technical and organizational safeguards to protect the continuity of IT infrastructure services. A high-level review of IT security principles, methods, practices, policies, and tools used in securing IT resources will be presented.
Upon completion of the workshop participants will:
Understand IT software and hardware security requirements;
Understand how to secure operators & administrators with access privileges to critical security resources;
Understand protection techniques for the entire facility from the outside perimeter to the inside office space including all information system resources & methods to deal with security breaches;
Audit and monitor the mechanisms, tools and facilities to permit the identification of security events and to assess operations security capacity;
Understand and describe the different types of cyber-attacks; and
Understand the responsibility the organization has in protecting client records, including preparing and conducting privacy impact assessments, statements of sensitivity, threat risk assessment and vulnerability assessments.
Who Should Attend the Workshop: IT System Administrators, IT Technicians, IT Advisors, IT Trainees, Community Program Managers, Community Program Directors, Band Managers, Band Administrators, Executive Directors, Directors of Operations, Office Managers, Business Managers, CFOs, Directors of Finance, Finance Managers, Finance Administrators, Finance Staff, Finance and Management Advisors and Key Decision-Makers of Records Management.
Accommodations are available at the Victoria Inn Hotel and Convention Centre. Please call the hotel at 204-786-4801 and please quote group code 347672 as we have a number of rooms blocked for the workshop.
Please share our workshop information in your community or in your organization with those who may be interested in attending.
NOTE: CAFMs, CAPAs, CILs, CIHRPs: As an AFOA Canada Certified Member, it is an annual requirement to remit 20 hours of professional development hours each year no later than March 31 in the following three categories: A) Continuing Education B) Leadership/Volunteer Work and C) Instruction. You can use these workshops to claim Maintenance of Certification (MOC) hours under A) Continuing Education.
If you have any questions or require more information, please email me or call me at 204-620-2933.
Ekosi,
Allan Munroe, CAFM, CAPA
Executive Director
AFOA Manitoba
Cell: 204-620-2933
Email: allan@afoamb.ca
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