Cybersecurity Awareness Training 2025 is offered through the UW-Madison Office of Cybersecurity and educates UW-Madison faculty and staff on ways to avoid and address cybersecurity risks. The online Cybersecurity Awareness Training was created in Articulate Rise 360 and includes text and images, as well as vendor videos from Proofpoint. The training is currently available in Canvas as of January 6, 2025, and will move to Workday in summer 2025.

Get help

• For assistance with the Cybersecurity training or to report an accessibility barrier, contact the Office of Cybersecurity at cybersecurityawareness@cio.wisc.edu.
• Contact the DoIT Help Desk for general assistance.

Accessibility and usability barriers

The following information is provided to help people with disabilities know what potential barriers may exist in the Cybersecurity Awareness Training.

Links that open in a new tab may impact users with visual disabilities

In the Canvas portion of the course, some links automatically open in a new tab without prior warning. This could be disorienting for some users, such as people with visual disabilities who navigate via screen reader.

Readability and text barriers may impact users with cognitive or visual disabilities

In the Canvas portion of the course, some information in the Accessibility Considerations page is not written in plain language, which could make it difficult for people to read or understand. 

In the Rise 360 portion of the course, many buttons use all caps text, which could make them difficult to read for users with reading disabilities or low vision. Using all caps text for buttons is a default style setting in Rise 360.