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Awareness Program Attacks Against The Mechanical Pin Tumbler Lock This paper examines an overview of the common pin tumbler lock and the five methods to exploit them. Pin tumbler locks are found in a vast majority of residential, commercial, government and educational institutions. It is possible for an attacker without using any specialized tools or having an expert skill level to quickly open them. When evaluating the current or future key based pin tumbler lock the security practitioner should protect against the methods of picking, impact, impression, decode and bypass. The relevant information for this paper came from Internet websites, Internet message boards, literature, and video/audio files. Read the Article Awareness, A Never Ending Struggle The setting is a large federal government owned facility operated by a major contractor with quite a number of sub contractor personnel also on site. All contractors and sub contractors are required to attend computer security awareness training by their federal customer. Training rosters are signed and entered into tracking to document that yes, all personnel have received the required training. This may satisfy any government and company requirements but the real test occurs every day. Will employees follow the guidance they have been given in awareness training? Below are some example scenarios that could take place. Read the Article Fortify Security through Quality Assurance Practices Successful companies have found a way to offer something that people want, at a price they are willing pay, in a way that will make money in the transaction. Highly successful companies offer quality products and services in this exchange, and keep the quality high, so that the customer will return the next time he/she wants to purchase. Quality has been defined as: "The totality of features and characteristics of a product or service that bear on its ability to satisfy stated or implied needs. Not to be mistaken for "degree of excellence" or "fitness for use" which meet only part of the definition." By this definition, security is a component of quality. Read the Article Security Awareness - Implementing an Effective Strategy Although the weakness that people present can never be totally eliminated, a well-planned security awareness program can help to reduce the risk to an acceptable level. It is critical that people understand their role in protecting information and information assets. This paper examines the importance of security awareness and how it supports the fundamental goals of an information security program. In addition, this paper provides a recommendation for implementing an effective security awareness strategy. This paper also spends considerable time discussing common obstacles to implementing an effective strategy. These obstacles have been derived from a combination of real world experience and research. Read the Article Security Awareness Training and Privacy An organization's security policy sets the standard for the way in which critical business information and systems will be protected from both internal and external threats. Defining a security policy is an opportunity for an organization to simultaneously define and refine its collective attitude to both its internal operations and external relationships, and, as such, embraces all aspects of the organization's operations, not just those directly impinged by "IT". (Lightfoot) Security policy must adapt to changing needs within the organization. Personnel responsible for creating and maintaining the security policy must learn to recognize changes in technology that impact security and how those changes impact the organization and the people who work for the organization. Read the Article The Ultimate Defense of Depth: Security Awareness in Your Company Defense of depth is one of the key, basic principles of security taught by SANS as part of their Security Essentials curriculum. The idea is the more lines of defense a company has in place, the less likely there will be a successful penetration, the more chance there is that an attack can be detected and the most likeliness an attacker will give up and move on to another more vulnerable target. In this light, many people might think of multiple layers of technology such as firewalls, networks, host and network intrusion detection systems, bastion hosts, etc. that would comprise this defense of depth. However, we know based on published surveys and analyses that the biggest threat to our technology environment is often ourselves. Read the Article Security Awareness Training Quiz - Finding the WEAKEST link! The security overview should be designed and implemented to help end-users get better acquainted with the network environments that they work in. A basic framework should be put in place to ensure the end users will be able to understand the concepts. Different tests may be catered around more technical groups if necessary, and the testing mechanism should be mandatory to determine if the end users understand the concepts covered. Read the Article Security Awareness: Help the Users Understand As security professionals, we spend hours every week trying to defend our networks from every possible threat. Throughout all of this effort, we forget about the users. The users are the key to a successful security program and what do we do? Frank Hayes, writing for Computer World, -Permissions, virus filters, limited data access, digital certificates, encryption and piles of passwords - they're all pretty much the same to users. They're a pain. They chew up valuable time. They get in the way. So what do most users do when faced with this in-their-face, time-and-effort-consuming security? Read the Article Security Awareness Starts in IT This practical is written to provide an overall "how to" perspective of introducing concepts of good security policy and its potential impact on security design . We have to continually remind ourselves that the security design group is highly technical, and in the midst's of day to day implementations and deployment of new security informational assets. Read the Article Introduction and Education of Information Security Policies to Employees in My Organization Through a comprehensive training program, the Information Security Office has successfully educated and trained existing staff and continues to train new staff throughout the Asia Pacific region. In order to keep the staff interested in the Information Security Policies, ISO has to continue to think of new and innovative ways to reinforce the importance of information security to all staff in the organization. Read the Article Page: 1 2 3 Members currently browsing this category:

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