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Building an Information Security Awareness Program
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Building an Information Security Awareness Program

by Bill Gardner, Valerie Thomas
August 2014
Beginner content levelBeginner
214 pages
5h 50m
English
Syngress
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Chapter 1

What Is a Security Awareness Program?

Bill Gardner    Marshall University, Huntington, WV, USA

Abstract

Not all attacks are technical. Now that we have built technical defenses around our networks, social engineering is used in the majority of recent breaches. The only defense against social engineering is an engaging security awareness program. A security awareness program helps with the development and enforcement of policies while at the same time helping to set the limits of what is acceptable and what is not acceptable behavior by the users of an organization's computer and telecommunication services. A security awareness program helps to limit risks of breaches to an organization's sensitive and confidential data. A security ...

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ISBN: 9780124199675