VACB AND THE ASP ACADEMY EDUCATIONAL PARTNERSHIP By Katharine Garner, Vice President of Education & Communications, VACB, and Dr. Kevin Streff, Founder, American Security and Privacy VACB and American Security and Privacy are proud to announce an innovative educational partnership in technology, cybersecurity, and data privacy! American Security and Privacy and Dr. Kevin Streff have developed the most comprehensive role-based training program in the technology space. It includes over 20 courses, each four to 12 hours in length, to address your ability to manage technology, cybersecurity, and data privacy at your bank. Enroll in one or enroll in them all. This program is only for bankers, using real bank examples to be immediately applicable to your financial institution. The partnership between VACB and the ASP Academy will ensure that a Virginia banker understands how to use technology in all parts of their ecosystem, including new technologies such as artificial intelligence and digital currencies/wallets. The Academy works to ensure that all bankers have the knowledge and skills necessary to protect systems and data against today’s cybersecurity and data privacy threats. The certification programs offered by the Academy are uniquely designed to address banking needs, using banking problems and solutions in examples and use cases. The instructors for the Academy are widely recognized as experts in technology, cybersecurity, and data privacy. There are six certification training programs in cybersecurity, six in data privacy, four in law and compliance, and four in technology. For example, your bank can professionally train your business continuity and incident handling professional using the Certified Banking Emergency Management Professional certification and the Certified Banking Incident Handler certification. Your Vendor Manger can become certified with six hours of training through the Certified Third-Party Manager program. If your head of technology wants to understand how to apply artificial intelligence in your bank’s operation, becoming certified in artificial intelligence in banking is a wonderful start. Even the board members can get certified with a crawl, walk, run model where there are three levels of certification with each being only an hour in length. These simply serve as examples for you to build technology and data protection as a real strategic differentiator for your bank, simply knowing more and being better at introducing and managing technology for your customers. The best part: Everything is online and at your pace — complete it over lunch hour, on the weekend, The CommunityBanker 10
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