Re: How to reach college students about security?

[Paul Kennedy <paul.kennedy () UCD IE>]

Hi Eric,

 

The idea's to promote awareness are really useful, particularly the web cam
ideas, but they are quite expensive in Europe. We really push infosec
awareness during student orientation week and we have mandatory IT
Orientation workshops for all incoming students. We also have giveaways for
students including an security awareness bookmark, customised mobile phone
wallets, that stick to the back mobile phones and can also hold a student
card, which are very popular. 

 

For high profile cyber days, such as Safer internet day, we put up stands in
prominent locations on campus with more giveaways. We just purchased
customised IT Security bicycle seat rain covers (attached), which are good
for the Irish weather!  Finally we try our best to follow the great Educause
Awareness campaigns and promote security awareness in the Student and Staff
e-zines.  

 

Our most successful campaign to date was a Phishing Awareness Campaign using
an interactive Phishing Challenge developed by our own Media office. An
outside IT Security company sponsored a mobile tablet as a prize, so there
was huge take-up.  I guess the chance to win something always generates
interest, so if you can get sponsored prizes, it always helps.  We are
trying to get more sponsored prized for a password protection campaign.  The
phishing challenge is available publically by searching for "ucd phishing
challenge", it was developed using storyline and I am happy to share the
code with you. 

 

Hope this helps,

Paul

 

 

__________________________

Paul Kennedy
I.T Security Officer
Tel: +353 1 7162015

Web: www.ucd.ie/itsecurity



 

 

From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv
[mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Smith, Eric
Sent: Friday 26 May 2017 20:28
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: [SECURITY] How to reach college students about security?

 

All,

 

We are planning an IT hosted event for opening week of classes. Most of it
is entertainment-based (flying drones, face painting, jugglers, zoo
animals!) but there's some carrot n stick elements.... eg,  giving them a
food reward for downloading our college mobile app.

 

I've been tasked with promoting IT security for this event. Sure, I can
rattle off scary stats or news items, give practical advice which will be
promptly forgotten, hand out various fliers that'll get pitched. the same
struggles everyone else probably has when dealing with employees in this
realm. I'm having more difficulty than I expected in developing something
that will especially grab a millennial audience. 

 

Something that is:

 

-          Engaging/enticing. At their age, everyone's living forever and
bad things always happen to someone else. It's a challenge to break through
that.

-          Brief and somewhat unstructured. The event will be a string of
booths where people pass by. Things might move relatively fast, so this may
boil down to a few sentences and pushing something relevant (hopefully not a
slip of paper commandments) into their hands.

 

Has anyone else tackled a quick, informative sell to students, preferably
with some useful trinkets or materials? If so, what worked for you?

 

 

Eric Smith

Assistant Director, Technical Support

Xavier University

t: 513-745-3953

 <http://twitter.com/XUTechHelp>