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Re: Security Awareness for students


From: Colleen Keller <ckeller () EDUCAUSE EDU>
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:11:03 -0600

Hi Christopher,

The EDUCAUSE Resource Center has a page on "Security Awareness" that may
be of interest to you. http://www.educause.edu/Browse/645?PARENT_ID=639

And there is also the EDUCAUSE/Internet2 Computer and Network Security
Task Force Cybersecurity Awareness Resource Library
http://www.educause.edu/SecurityAwarenessResourceLibrary/8762 , which
has cybersecurity awareness resources for colleges and universities.

Please let me know if you have any questions, thank you.

Colleen Keller   
Information Specialist                     
EDUCAUSE, 4772 Walnut Street, Suite 206
Boulder, CO 80301-2538
Phone (303) 939-0309, FAX (303) 440-0461 www.educause.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Penido [mailto:chris.penido () NYU EDU] 
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 11:03 AM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: [SECURITY] Security Awareness for students

Hi everyone,

I am currently the new Network Security Analyst at NYU and I'm working
on several security awareness projects for 2006-07. While our group has
had successes in the past in providing security training and holding
security awareness events for our Systems Administrators and staff, we
have had a more challenging time in marketing those sessions and their
content to our student body. Students are simply not interested in
security awareness because they have more pressing issues to tend to on
a daily basis.

With October being Security Awareness month, I would like to query the
EduCause community on some of the successful practices employed in
bringing more security awareness to the student community. I was
particularly interested to know if any group has found success in
reaching out to students via alternative communication methods, i.e.  
via MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, iTunes, University-hosted security
blogs, etc..

These newer types of methods interest me because they would appear to
break the "mold" of how things are currently done by some security
groups. Communicating through those aforementioned channels holds a
strong potential as being an effective means of communication given that
students frequently communicate through them and they are comfortable
with that technology.

If anyone has any thoughts on this, it would be most welcome :)

If this is supposed to go in another discussion forum, please let me
know.

Best,

Christopher

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Christopher Penido
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chris.penido () nyu edu
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