Re: Ideas for a Security Awareness 'Poster & Sticker' Campaign

[Felecia Vlahos <fvlahos () COX NET>]

We are going with the SANS Ren-ISAC offering for our poster/flyer/screen  
saver program next year.  $5000 for just the SANS training materials  
(doesn't include the online courses).  If you are interested, the offer  
ends July 31st, so act fast.

We did a poster and flyer awareness program targeting students about not  
leaving laptops, phones, GPS, gym bags, etc. in their cars to diminish the  
high amounts of car burglaries.  We handed out simple fliers, University  
made, to the students the first two weeks of school along the path to  
their parking area. The students didn't leave a single flyer on the ground  
(first amazing result).  We took one of the fliers and made it into a  
poster and put it in the general meeting area in the resident halls.  One  
or both of these simple inexpensive tools resulted in a reduction to  
almost zero in car burglaries (for two consecutive years) based on  
burglary statistics for the prior 3 years.

I was amazed at the effectiveness of our small homegrown program, and I am  
very hopeful to see similar results with the SANS materials  next year.   
The SANS materials cover multiple information security concepts, but we  
plan to start small with one are of focus.  Other experts have shared with  
me that small is better and that it is good to have some kind of  
before/after metrics to measure success.  Like commercials, users will  
begin ignoring the materials so you need to keep refreshing them to get  
their attention.  It is also very important to have contact information on  
the materials so users can follow up as needed.

Thanks,
Felecia Vlahos, CISSP
ISO San Diego State University




On Tue, 16 Jul 2013 10:20:45 -0700, Russ Leathe <Russ.Leathe () gordon edu>  
wrote:

> SANS have some excellent posters available.
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> From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv  
> [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Kain, Jennifer
> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 12:51 PM
> To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> Subject: [SECURITY] Ideas for a Security Awareness 'Poster & Sticker'  
> Campaign
>
>
> Good morning,
>
>
> We have identified employee training and awareness as one of the areas  
> we want to improve on, particularly around privacy and security of  
> >personal information (which is governed by privacy laws here in  
> Vancouver, BC).  
>
> We have decided to do some sort of Poster & Sticker Campaign to help  
> raise awareness and I was wondering if anyone had done something  
> >similar and wouldn’t mind sharing what worked, what didn’t, lessons  
> learned, etc.
>
>
> I look forward to hearing your stories….
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jen
>
>
> Jennifer Kain MSc, CRMA, CISA, CGEIT, CRISC, PIIA, QICA
> Director, Personal Information Governance & Security | UBC Risk  
> Management Services
> The University of British Columbia | Ste. 50 – 2075 Wesbrook Mall
>
> Phone 604 827 1535 | Cell 778 938 1151
>
> Jennifer.kain () ubc ca
> www.riskmanagement.ubc.ca