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Thursday, December 8, 2011

Free Security Awareness Training - Part 4 of 5

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This week I'm sharing with you links to 25 security awareness training sites. The training links are being broken up into groups of five, published within five separate postings. Today we reach the forth set of training links for an accumulative total of 20.

The 2008 information security survey by Pricewaterhouse Coopers revealed that investment in security technologies had increased but “the acute focus on technology over the last year has not been matched by an equally robust commitment to other critical drivers of security’s value, such as: (1) many of the critical business and security processes that support technology, and (2) the people who administer them.” Security awareness training helps address the second item.
"The security discipline has so far been skewed toward technology - firewalls, ID management, intrusion detection - instead of a risk analysis and proactive intelligence gathering. Security investment must shift from the technology-heavy, tactical operation it has been to date to an intelligence-centric, risk analysis and mitigation philosophy. We have to start addressing the human element of information security, not just the technological one; it i only then that companies will stop being punching bags." - PricewaterhouseCoopers
Below is the next set of security awareness training links.
  1. The History of Bio-Terrorism (Center for Disease Control and Prevention)
  2. Detecting Bio-Terror (Center for Public Health Preparedness)
  3. Radiological Terrorism: Just in Time Training for Hospital Clinicians (Center for Disease Control and Prevention)
  4. Nuclear Terrorism: Pathways & Prevention (Center for Public Health Preparedness)
  5. Preparedness & Community Response to Pandemics (Center for Public Health Preparedness)

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Free Security Awareness Training - Part 3 of 5

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This week I'm passing on to you links to 25 free security awareness training sites. Why is security awareness training important? Fundamentally, security is about people. Having worked within the information security world for the past 15 years, it's become very clear that the best defense to internal and external threats is not technology by itself. Rather, people need to have the mindset that helps them to automatically take actions that support security, not circumvent or undermine it. Security awareness training helps raise awareness so as to begin making this a natural mindset that influences behavior.
"No one wants security; they want the benefits of security. A homeowner does not want the finest deadbolt on the front door because of the excellence of its engineering; they want a comfortable, happy place in which to live." - Steve Hunt
Below are the next five training links. This now brings us to a total of 15 trainings out of the 25 I promised to give you by the end of this week.
  1. OPPSEC (United States Marine Corps)
  2. Intelligence Analysis Web-based Training (Anacapa Sciences)
  3. SAEDA (553G-NG0001-A) (Espionage Awareness) (United States Army)
  4. Are You Ready? An In-depth Guide to Citizen Preparedness FEMA/EMI Course IS-22 (FEMA)
  5. Personal Preparedness (Center for Public Health Preparedness)

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Free Security Awareness Training - Part 2 of 5

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This week my goal is to pass along to you links to 25 free security awareness trainings. The trainings are being divided up into groups of five and published in a series of five separate postings. The first set of training links was published yesterday.

As promised, below is the second set of five trainings.

  1. Anti-Terrorism Awareness Level-1 (Defense Technical Information Center - US DoD)
  2. The Seven Signs of Terrorism (Michigan State Police via YouTube)
  3. AWR-187 Terrorism and WMD Awareness in the Workplace (Rural Domestic Preparedness Consortium)
  4. Kentucky Terrorism Response & Preparedness (University of Kentucky)
  5. Prevention and Deterrence of Terrorist Acts (National Center for Biomedical Research and Training)