Re: DHS Announces the Release of New Training Course: Workplace Security Awareness

["Sarazen, Daniel" <dsarazen () UMASSP EDU>]

Hi hear you David, but I'm more concerned about the tone this sets for those relatively uninitiated in the field of IT 
Security and risk.  

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Subject: Re: [SECURITY] DHS Announces the Release of New Training Course: Workplace Security Awareness


On Apr 22, 2011, at 2:47 PM, Mclaughlin, Kevin (mclaugkl) wrote:

> Unreal, just unreal.  Maybe this is their way to push for a federal identifier, you know- a group of characters that 
> will uniquely identify each .... Oh wait a minute - never mind.  

To be fair, it is largely people in private industry (and even, gasp, higher ed, when "everyone" used SSN as their 
identifier some years ago) who have chosen to use knowledge of an SSN as a means of authentication for access to 
financially significant services.  As a federal identifier, it is benign.
--
David