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Blog Updates Ma, Pa and the Corporate Clueless on Security Awareness
Released on = December 6, 2004, 6:21 am Press Release Author = The Security Awareness Company Industry = Computers Press Release Summary = Business and home computer users are quickly adopting a “security aware” culture in response to the rising amount of internet security problems. A new tool in this fight is a blog affectionately called “Security Awareness for Ma, Pa and the Corporate Clueless.” Press Release
Body = SEMINOLE, FL (December 6, 2004) – Business and home
computer users are quickly adopting a “security aware”
culture in response to the rising amount of internet security problems.
A new tool in this fight is a blog Blog regulars find up-to-date security information and tips from The Security Awareness Company team and commentaries from other top experts in the Information Security Industry. The six-month-old blog can be found at: http://securityawareness.blogspot.com “The response has been phenomenal,” said Winn Schwartau, president of The Security Awareness Company (Interpact Inc.). “We created an entertaining security awareness portal to educate end-users and it apparently struck a chord. The message is really spreading fast.” The Security Awareness blog has an Atom formatted XML site feed for syndication and news readers. The blog also has a convenient email update for opt-in subscribers, which is normally sent twice a week, Schwartau added. Tony Bradley,
CISSP and About.com Guide for Internet/Network Security, strongly
believes in the concept of empowering end-users to help battle computer
security problems. “The Security Awareness Blog helps address
one of the biggest security Another Security Awareness Blog reader is Harry Waldron, Windows Security Expert with One Beacon Insurance and fellow blogger at http://msmvps.com/harrywaldron. “To borrow from CARE's great theme, you can sum up security awareness in this manner: Give me a patch and you protect me for a day – but teach me security and you help protect me for a lifetime,” Waldron said. “To me, security awareness training is just as important as automated protection safeguards in an organization's security program.” Founded by Winn
Schwartau, Interpact, Inc., The Security Awareness Company, offers
a range of information security services for today's organizations,
both government and commercial. Interpact assists in securing, protecting
and maintaining information technology systems and the integrity
of client and proprietary resources. We focus on the people, not
the technology. For more information on InterPact, please visit
http://www.thesecurityawarenesscompany.com or call (727) Web Site = http://securityawareness.blogspot.com Contact Details
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