Re: Security Awareness for students

[Rodney Petersen <rpetersen () EDUCAUSE EDU>]

While there is an "Awareness and Training" working group of the Security
Task Force, discussion topics of this kind are best addressed to this
entire discussion list in order to obtain the broadest possible
consideration and input.  

The working group, co-chaired by Krizi Trivisani from George Washington
University and Shirley Payne from the University of Virginia, meets
monthly and considers how to best support the security awareness needs
of the community.  A couple of recent projects that respond in part to
your question are:

National Cyber Security Awareness Month Sample Kit developed by Indiana
University
http://www.educause.edu/NationalCybersecurityAwarenessMonthSampleKit/106
07
Seeks to take a creative approach to reaching students by establishing
creative materials based on a 1950's horror theme.  The kit outlines
plans for their use that you can adapt to your institution's needs
quickly.  The materials were developed for use during the 2005 National
Cyber Security Awareness Month.

2nd Annual Computer Security Awareness Video Contest
http://www.educause.edu/SecurityVideoContest2007
Seeks to engage students in the creative process by incenting the
development of videos or public service announcements produced by
college students for college students.  More information about this
contest will follow in the next few days.  The videos that resulted from
last years contest are available at
http://www.educause.edu/SecurityVideoContest

I think the question of HOW to creatively capture the attention of
students is an important one.  I hope that others will have suggestions
to offer.

Please let me know if you have any further questions.

-Rodney

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Rodney J. Petersen
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-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Penido [mailto:chris.penido () NYU EDU] 
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 3:55 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Security Awareness for students

Hi Colleen,

Thank you for that information. I was curious to know if EduCause had a
security awareness discussion board / mailing list or should all such
discussions be directed to the standard Security mailing list?

Best,

Christopher

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On Sep 25, 2006, at 2:11 PM, Colleen Keller wrote:

> 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
> Network Security Analyst
> NYU  \ ITS Technology Security Services  \  security () nyu edu 
> chris.penido () nyu edu
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