Security Awareness

Description

Security Awareness Programs play an integral role in educating employees about security threats and risks and safe computing practices for the protection of an organizations’ information assets. 

The evolving expansion in available technologies, combined with continuing privacy and security information incidents and investigations, mean that there is an ever-increasing need for information security awareness for all levels of personnel.  Security researchers and investigators consistently emphasize the absolute need for users to have the education and awareness required to protect information – at work, at home and on-the-go.  In fact, research has shown that users (insiders) are often the greatest threat due to their lack of knowledge about computing best practices and how to avoid or prevent cyber-crime.  Whether because of being too trusting and helpful, too rushed, or not applying security principles (i.e., the human factor), personnel responding to phishing emails by clicking on a link or opening an attachment has been the cause of many recent high-profile security breaches world-wide. 

CyberBC provides access to awareness materials, training, education, and coaching services to support clients’ awareness program development.  

Outcomes

• To encourage and promote a corporate culture of information security that seeks to protect all information resources in the care of employees and its business partners. 
• To promote consistent messaging and a shared approach to security awareness across the organization. 
• To create an understanding that effective security practices are business enablers because they identify and mitigate the security vulnerabilities and risks of using IM/IT resources. 
• To ensure that business transformation and the introduction of new technologies, tools and software include an awareness of security risks and appropriate practices to reduce the risk to a level acceptable to the information owners. 
• To continuously be knowledgeable about security risks and threats, along with the advances in cybercrime, and to communicate this information, along with suggested best practices that users can incorporate to protect themselves, their work, and their personal information. 
• Organizational knowledge safe computing and information handling practices at work, at home and on-the-go to reduce the overall occurrence of theft, loss, or misuse of data and information assets. 
• Access to monthly security awareness themed quizzes, newsletters, and posters. 

Resources

Information Security Awareness
Understand the basic information security awareness, and comprehend the practical differences between authentication and cloud authentication.

Safe Computing
A collection of videos on how to use a computer safely, with each video focusing on different aspects of cybersecurity.

Top 10 Cybersecurity Tips
Ten cybersecurity tips that are commonly used of frequently encountered by people.

Information Security Awareness Quizzes
Cybersecurity quizzes from past years to the present, helping everyone further consolidate their knowledge.

Security News Digest
A weekly security news brief from various news sources sent out each Tuesday.