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Every citizen has an important role to play in protecting the workplace and the nation from cybercrime, intellectual property theft and identity fraud. End users are consistently cited as among the weakest links in securing workplaces of all sizes. This is due to a wide range of vulnerabilities including the lack of security awareness and the failure to understand or follow security rules and policies.
In response to this growing need, The Center for Information Security Awareness (CfISA), The InfraGard National Members Alliance (INMA) are pleased to announce the launch of a FREE online information security awareness training program that focuses on the workplace as the foundation for better security education and training.
You can register for the FREE online training at: www.InfraGardAwareness.com.
The central component of the program is the online security awareness course entitled "Information Security In The Workplace – A National Awareness Certificate Program."
This free course is targeted at helping individuals and employees understand how their security awareness and vigilance can help to protect their workplace, their community and the nation.
Participants also have the option of taking an awareness test and achieve the very first “security awareness in the workplace” certificate. There will be a small fee to take the test and achieve a certificate.
The course is also available to corporations and their employees for a fee, and will also be customized if customers require it.
The workplace is the ideal venue for educating employees about better security practices because employees have a vested interest in their safety and security. The lessons learned by employees go beyond the workplace, helping improve security awareness at home and contributing to a more secure community and nation.
In addition to security best practices, this program will also address important regulatory and compliance issues that may affect workplace security needs including Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, and the PCI DSS Data Security Standard.
The course takes employees step-by-step through the challenge of security awareness in the workplace, teaching them about the key challenges including the role of behavior and the exploitation of employee habits, the path to behavioral change, best security practices, and your organization's mandated security and acceptable-use policies.
Security lessons that make sense
The course is divided into 14 lessons spread over approximately ninety minutes.
Each lesson is between five and seven minutes long and based on a blend of content that includes:
- Messages that engage employees in the course and subject and help them make a personal connection with the security challenge.
- Security best practices and common sense behavior.
- Legal and compliance issues, including GLBA, HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, and the PCI Data Security Standard
- Workplace-specific security policies, rules, and standards.
Engage Your Employees With A Powerful Multimedia Experience
The course incorporates Flash and narration throughout. Flash and narration are known to help keep employees engaged in the training, helping to keep their attention and focus, and helping them to better understand and absorb the key messages.
The course restricts Flash use to only basic elements to minimize the impact on network bandwidth. And each course is narrated throughout by professional and experienced narrators using pre-approved and rehearsed scripts.
Anyone, Anywhere, Everywhere, All the time.
Because the security lessons are delivered direct to the desktop of every employee, your organization can avoid the disruption and inconvenience of an off-site seminar.
That means you can afford to teach your employees security - any time, all the time, anywhere, and everywhere. Without taxing your security budget.
If you'd like to learn more about our awareness and training solutions, please email us.
"You can have the best technology, firewalls, intrusion-detection systems, biometric devices. All it takes is a call to an unsuspecting employee, and that's all she wrote, baby. They got everything." Kevin Mitnik.
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