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Published on January 07, 2010 by Karen Letain in News
I have been reviewing how we can make security awareness training more exciting and more relevant for the learner this year. What new tools can we add to the toolbox that will inspire the learner to actually change their behaviors when it comes to being aware of security risks.
With the plethora of social media, video and other communication tools out there, I figure there has to be some way to tie all of these mediums together to produce a truly awesome ongoing weekly awareness campaign. You can tweet about it, put together a video on youtube that you can put on the internal website or use some free video animation tools to flash images that resonate to the learner's everyday work tasks. This past year, Terranova spent a lot of time on the development of new online content with a different pedagogical format focusing more on risks/consequences/threats and best practices than prior versions. We also spent time creating new videos that can be used to promote awareness on various topics. However, I think we really need to look at what can be done with all of these other wonderful tools out there. What are you planning to do this year to freshen up your training? We would love to hear about your ideas!
Published on December 04, 2009 by Karen Letain in Other, Planning
At schools and colleges across the country and around the world, the use of the Internet and Web for learning and teaching is causing a major change in the landscape of education. Building upon decades of computer networking activities (e.g. e-mail and bulletin board systems), the Internet has produced phenomenal growth in the extent and scope of online education.
Online education has created a new paradigm for teaching and learning different from the traditional classroom experience, and also different from earlier attempts at computer-based instruction. instructional methods and strategies employed in online courses are essentially the same as those used by instructors in their traditional classes, with the exception of student interaction and collaboration.
While online education certainly has it benefits from an ROI perspective over traditional classroom methods, what is inherently missing is the "interaction and collaboration" part. As social media and online communities continue to expand and grow in popularity, educators will need to be able to tap into this new method of communication and adapt online education to fit with the new bite-sized, instantaneous learning methodology. How can we use tools like twitter to get the message through and make it stick? Here is our opportunity to build social education communities and interact with each other regardless of distance to share and learn in a community fashion. How inspiring is that? How are you going to use this new medium in your training plans?
Published on June 04, 2009 by Karen Letain in News
For anyone out there experimenting with Twitter, you are probably aware that with so few characters to use to tweet, you eventually need to look at using a Short URL service to direct your followers to what you want them to read or see.These Short URL services are great and guess what... they are free! This seems great until you start thinking about potential security risks. For companies with employees that are sneaking in a few tweets a day at work, those security issues could become a big problem.
Let's start by understanding that anyone following a Twitter account blindly, clicks on the Short URL without really knowing where they are being taken. In other words, they have no clue of where the destination page is actually going. Which means...an attacker can tweet that he is linking to a new picture of a rare white moose, but instead they are sending the user to a website hosting malicious content.
Organizations need to educate their employees not only on the policies and risks regarding using social media and the potential hazards of social engineering at work, but should also make them aware that they need to pay close attention when using social media sites at home.
