NOTE: Just realized today is Take Your Child To Work Day so this is timely! 🙂
My sons, 12-years-old and 9-years-old, have been with me a lot while I work in my home office over the years, and they have a strong interest in much that I do. I even ask them to read the articles I write for Protecting Information since I want that publication to be informational to not only personnel, but also all the personnel’s family members.
It amazes me how much my sons soak up that I’m not even aware of…
Archive for the ‘Training & awareness’ Category
My Son Caught A “Hacker”!
Thursday, April 23rd, 20092 More Things In History That Could Have Improved Infosec & Privacy
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009Late last week I blogged about a question I got while at InfoTec in Omaha last week, “2 Things In Computing History That Could Have Improved Information Security and Privacy“…
“Secure Your ID Day” is April 18
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009I’m in Omaha to speak tomorrow at the Infotec09 conference and I heard on the local news that “Secure Your ID Day” is April 18…
“Secure Your ID Day” is April 18
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009I’m in Omaha to speak tomorrow at the Infotec09 conference and I heard on the local news that “Secure Your ID Day” is April 18…
Measuring The Effectiveness of Information Security & Privacy Awareness & Training
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009I’m a longtime advocate of creating a wide range of metrics to determine the effectiveness of the various components of information security, privacy and compliance programs.
Ongoing Awareness Communications and Regular Training Are Necessary For Effective Information Security & Privacy Programs
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009Scott Wright over at Streetwise Security Zone graciously invited me to do a podcast interview with him to discuss information security, privacy and compliance training and awareness issues. In the last half of February I had the pleasure of taking him up on his invitation!
You can hear the full podcast here.
Here are the notes Scott compiled about our discussion topics:
Avoid Information Overload In Your Information Security & Privacy Training!
Sunday, March 22nd, 2009I’ve been reviewing some “canned” information security and privacy training offerings in the past few months, and I’m seeing that many of them are trying to dump TOO MUCH information on those taking them; learners can only absorb so much information within a short period of time and retain it for any significant amount of time!
Data Privacy Day Activities That Deserve Recognition
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009January 28 was international Data Privacy Day, which I blogged about a few times here, here, and here.
While the Intel site posted about many of the events that occurred, there were many more they missed.
Here are a few of them:
Happy Data Privacy Day!
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009So, what are you doing to raise awareness about privacy issues today?
I’m sending various awareness communications to several mailing lists and online groups I belong to. Here’s the message I sent to my school parents’ mailing list…
