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By Philip Veilleux, Information Security AdvisorThe IT world is a succession of dualities and oppositions: PC and Mac, Android and IOS, BlackBerries and personal devices...BlackBerries have ruled the business world for ages as it was THE technological piece geeks wanted as a smart phone. With the market penetration of personal smart phones like the Samsung, iPhone, Nexus and such, employees want to use their own devices in the office. Office rules mandate BlackBerry usage for email, therefore...
By Patrick Paradis, Information Security AdvisorWhat is the value of the information stored on your computer equipment or paper documents? What would the impacts be if your personal or confidential information fell into the wrong hands (e.g. financial loss, loss of image / reputation, regulatory or legal non-compliance)?Can you be certain that a proper destruction method was used on the information (whether in digital or paper form) to ensure that it is completely destroyed prior to disposal or...
Terranova Training in partnership with Scotiabank Wins Bronze Brandon Hall Learning Technology Award
Montreal, May 2011 - Terranova Training, a leader in innovative learning, has won a coveted Brandon Hall bronze award for technology excellence in the Best Advance in Learning Management Technology for Compliance Training category.
The course Information Security and Privacy – It’s Everybody’s Business, was submitted by both, Terranova Training and its client, Scotiabank.
The course was launched on July 19, 2010, in two languages, English and French, to almost 40,000 Scotiabank employees in...
Below is the promised Part 2 of the list of free resources. If you need to “freshen” up your existing training or are looking for potentially new ideas for security awareness, some of these links may be helpful. If you have any more you would like to share, we would love to hear about them.
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-16/800-16.pdf - NIST - Information Security Requirements
http://www.iwar.org.uk/comsec/resources/sa-tools/ - Information Warfare Site Resources
http://www....
I always love seeing blog entries that contain great resource references. So, I thought I would start one! Here is the start of a list that I decided to start compiling of some really good blogs that contain a ton of resources, tips, tricks and more links. Feel like sharing yours and growing the list?
Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org
Box of Tricks
Creative Teaching
Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development
Custom Training and eLearning Blog
Educational Origami
Experiencing E-Learning
Jane...
Consistent updates will assist you in managing change throughout the yearly life cycle of your security awareness program. It is imperative that you update your program to ensure that training/ awareness/education deployments do not become stagnant and therefore irrelevant to real emerging issues faced by the organization. A planned and consistent update program will also allow you to address changes in security policy, directives and procedures driven from new threats, technologies or...
http://www.forbes.com/2009/12/10/adobe-hackers-microsoft-technology-cio-...
Forbes recently compiled a list of the seven Most-Hacked software titles for 2009. They took a survey of security professionals from various companies including Verisign, TippingPoint, iDefense and Qualys. Based on this survey, Forbes found that the following were the most hacked software titles from 2009.
Adobe Reader
Internet Explorer
Mozilla Firefox
Adobe Flash
Apple Quicktime
Microsoft Office
Microsoft...
At schools and colleges across the country and around the world, the use of the Internet and Web for learning and teaching is causing a major change in the landscape of education. Building upon decades of computer networking activities (e.g. e-mail and bulletin board systems), the Internet has produced phenomenal growth in the extent and scope of online education.
Online education has created a new paradigm for teaching and learning different from the traditional classroom experience, and also...
