Items Tagged with "Security Awareness"
Does Your Company Have a Security Awareness Training Program?
March 10, 2011 Added by:Allan Pratt, MBA
Topics to discuss include good security practices such as making regular back-ups, encrypting sensitive data, turning off computers before leaving the office, carefully disposing of storage devices, and not installing illegal copies of software on company computers or devices...
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Using NLP to Go Beyond “SMART” Goals
March 04, 2011 Added by:Brad Bemis
SMART goals are supposed to be Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Time-based. That seems pretty reasonable, so what’s missing? Neuro-Linguistic Programming introduces the concept of using a ‘well-formed’ outcome process – a process that makes your SMART goals even smarter...
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Protecting Children on the Internet
February 04, 2011 Added by:Robert Siciliano
Parents who lack experience with the Internet, computers, or mobile phones must learn the basics before they can adequately monitor their children’s habits. A parent’s discomfort or unfamiliarity with technology is no excuse to let a child run wild on the Internet...
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Getting Buy-In for Information Security
January 24, 2011 Added by:Robb Reck
The goal is an organization with workers who are focused on information security across all departments. Sitting in the CISO's office coming up with great ideas for security with a few InfoSec members will never be enough. We need employees thinking of security as a crucial part of their work...
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Eight Essential Tips for a Secure 2011
December 30, 2010 Added by:Headlines
The list includes the obvious and not so obvious steps every user of online and mobile devices should implement. Grier's recommendations are simple, quick to employ, and can be accomplished at little or no cost to consumers...
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Eleven Tips for Secure Online Shopping
December 22, 2010 Added by:Robert Siciliano
Here are eleven tips to have a safe online shopping experience during the holiday season: Avoid spoofed websites - Common sense says any time you receive an offer via an e-mail automatically be suspicious. The same goes with offers via tweets and messages received in any social media site...
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Deceptive Emails - This Time From SAP
December 08, 2010 Added by:Ben Rothke
I just received an email from VeriSign that shows they did remove all misleading language. But SAP seems not to have learned the same lesson. The subject line of ‘Get a $10 Gift card by completing IFRS Survey’ is clearly deceptive...
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What Security Issues Should You Worry About?
December 02, 2010 Added by:Robert Siciliano
For many of the issues we worry about the chances of them happening might be 1 in a 100,000 or 1 in 10 million. Your chances of something bad happening may equate to the same statistics as winning the lottery, which is very slim, but you still might play the number...
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Savvy and Secure Shopping for the Holiday Season
November 19, 2010 Added by:Theresa Payton
Before you start your online shopping, make sure you have the latest web browser and update your virus protection. Avoid making purchases if you are using free wireless and you cannot validate the security and privacy of your transaction. Never give payment or personal information via email...
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Security Awareness in a Connected World
November 16, 2010 Added by:Mark Gardner
In a new more open internet age, where privacy is somewhat discarded, the threat to the enterprise is increased, because of the blurring between home and work. It is only by shouting above the noise to get the security message across, can the enterprise be protected...
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Is Your Incident Reporting System Putting Your Organization At Risk?
November 11, 2010 Added by:Katie Weaver-Johnson
Is your incident reporting system working against you? Lessons learned continue to show that organizations find themselves in reaction mode more than they are in prevention mode. How can this be when most every organization claims to have an incident reporting system in place?
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Five Things: Protect Your Webmail Account
November 10, 2010 Added by:Robb Reck
Take a moment and ensure that all your internet email accounts are secure. Go through these steps and maybe you can avoid being awakened in the morning, like my wife did, to find that your mother is seriously concerned that you got involved in some shady dealings in Cyprus...
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Five Sneaky Credit Card Scams
November 04, 2010 Added by:Robert Siciliano
You hand your card to a clerk, and they have a card reading wedge device that looks like this. The device may be wrapped around a band on their ankle. They bend over and make it look like they are fixing a sock, once they swipe the card through, they can make charges on your card...
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Dr. InfoSec's Quotes of the Week (012)
October 31, 2010 Added by:Christophe Veltsos
Who said: "In short, like every other major new weapons system introduced since the slingshot, Stuxnet creates new strengths as well as new vulnerabilities for the states that may wield it..."?
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Security Awareness Training - At Age 5?
October 23, 2010 Added by:Katie Weaver-Johnson
Before you hand over that phone to provide some extra entertainment when you get stuck in line at a restaurant, you may want to make sure all other applications are locked down, you have signed out of your email and other social networking sites...
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Information Security as the Status Quo
October 21, 2010 Added by:Robb Reck
Effective security is created, implemented and maintained by the technical folks who create and manage the systems and applications themselves. In order to achieve a secure environment we need to move beyond the outdated model that goes something like this...