One Continuing Education Credit Available
Defending Your Community from Ransomware and Other Cyber Threats
Your community association is vulnerable in the increasingly prevalent technological battlefield. The risks of ransomware, phishing, and other cyber threats are growing. Community association board members, managers, and management company executives need to understand the risks, vulnerabilities, and how to defend themselves in the shifting cybersecurity landscape.
Our panel of experts will help you realize what could be at stake, how to identify potential vulnerabilities, how to prepare for a data breach, and how to react when one occurs. Listen in as a community manager shares firsthand experience from a recent ransomware attack. Learn more about the following threats:
- Ransomware: When a cybercriminal gains control of your data and holds it ransom.
Social engineering: An umbrella term for when criminals seek to influence the behavior of others through technological means
Phishing: A social engineering attempt to gain sensitive information, such as a password or bank account numbers, through fraudulent emails, suspicious links, or infected attachments.
Members: USD $69.00
Non-Members: USD $99.00 (Join CAI and Save!)
Your community association is vulnerable in the increasingly prevalent technological battlefield. The risks of ransomware, phishing, and other cyber threats are growing. Community association board members, managers, and management company executives need to understand the risks, vulnerabilities, and how to defend themselves in the shifting cybersecurity landscape.
Our panel of experts will help you realize what could be at stake, how to identify potential vulnerabilities, how to prepare for a data breach, and how to react when one occurs. Listen in as a community manager shares firsthand experience from a recent ransomware attack. Learn more about the following threats:
-Ransomware: When a cybercriminal gains control of your data and holds it ransom.
- Social engineering: An umbrella term for when criminals seek to influence the behavior of others through technological means.
- Phishing: A social engineering attempt to gain sensitive information, such as a password or bank account numbers, through fraudulent emails, suspicious links, or infected attachments.
Joel W. Meskin, Esq., CIRMS
Joel W. Meskin is managing director of community association insurance products and risk management at McGowan Program Administrators in Fairview Park, Ohio. Meskin is a founding member of the Foundation for Community Association Research Think Tank and is involved in task forces on cybersecurity and aging infrastructures. Meskin practiced law for 15 years prior to specializing in the community association industry for the past 20 years.
Meskin served the maximum six years on the CAI National Business Partners Council, including as chair in 2018, and served four years on the CAI Board of Trustees. In 2018, he was awarded the CAI National Award of Excellence in Chapter Leadership.
Joel has insured well over 100,000 community associations nationwide and has spoken in 35 states to management companies, association boards, and other community association professionals. He also consults and collaborates with brokers, associations, management companies, and attorneys on risk management and insurance strategies.
Heidi A. Wolf, CMCA
This program provides one credit per hour toward:
- Certified Manager of Community Associations recertification
- Association Management Specialist redesignation
- Professional Community Association Manager redesignation
To earn credit, you must be personally registered for this program and print the certificate of completion to document your participation.
Registration Information
All registrants will have full access to this on-demand, online recording for 120 days.
Manager Certifications and Designations
Certified Manager of Community Associations (CMCA®) / Association Management Specialist (AMS®) / Professional Community Association Manager (PCAM®) / Large-Scale Manager (LMS®)
Management Company Designation
Accredited Association Management Company (AAMC®)
Service Provider Designations and Distinctions
Reserve Specialist (RS®) / Community Insurance and Risk Management Specialist (CIRMS®) / Educated Business Partner
