RE: Enterprise Trainaing Programs

[Christine Kronberg <seeker () shalla de>]

On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Michael Scheidell wrote:

*snip*
> Would you believe spammers dumb enough to send spam to the MESSAGE ID
> because it looked like a valid email address?
> But I digress....

  A bit offtopic, but: the answer is yes. Spammers are dumb enough to
  do that. I've found entries in my mail logs indicating just that.
  Anyhow, there are better ways to protect oneself against spam; there
  is no need for forging the own email address.

[OP:]
> > My questions:
> > What are aother large companies doing for training of the user base?

  It depends. Some have awareness programs (half day lectures) every
  six months as a must for the employees. I saw others just giving an
  intro to the new guys and that's it. The latter is, of course, not
  recommended.
  There is only one large company I know of that has invested lots of
  money in regular awareness lectures and cbts. But then, they also
  modified their coporate culture to reflect the security concern. From
  the top management to the bottom. They talk very open (internally)
  about security topics.
  Without that, I don't think that whatever you choose to create and
  maintain security awareness is going work. If the top management does
  not take security serious, the employees won't do that either.
  It's a management process, technic and tools come second.

  Cheers,

  Christine Kronberg.


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