Posts Tagged ‘protecting information journal’

5 Effective Ways to Raise Privacy Awareness

Thursday, December 18th, 2014

Have you made plans for Data Privacy Day (DPD) yet? What, you’ve never heard of DPD?  You can see more about it here. Or, have you heard about DPD, but you’ve not yet had time to plan for it? Well, I love doing information security and privacy awareness activities and events! I’ve been doing them for 2 ½ decades, and have written about them often, and included a listing of 250 awareness activities in my Managing an Information Security and Privacy Awareness and Training Program book.

Here are five of the ways that I’ve found to be very effective for raising privacy awareness throughout the years. (more…)

A Cyber Bullying Victim Shares His Experience

Monday, October 1st, 2012

Today is October 1st, which is also Blue Shirt Day™ World Day of Bullying Prevention©

Cyber bullying is a topic I cover in my Q3 2012 issue of Protecting Information Journal, and my youth reporter for this quarter’s issue, Lexx, wrote about his personal experience with cyber bullying.  Typically only my subscribers get to read these great articles, but in honor of Blue Shirt Day™ I want everyone to have a chance to read his article that provides important insights into how so many of our children are dealing with this growing problem.  Here it is in its entirety; please provide feedback, not only to me, but also for my talented youth reporter! (more…)