Awareness Tools

Of course, if you’ve been to our workshops or otherwise have access to our policy set, you already are armed with a multitude of tools to help educate, motivate, and activate awareness in your organization.

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Beyond introducing you to our FREE on-going awareness tools, this post will dwell upon resources we’ve found that are produced by OTHER organizations.

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First, stay aware in real time.
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Related Websites and On-line Training

• Our Information Security Portal:    https://my.infotex.com/
• Sign up to receive timely information concerning current events, articles,etc.:     Mailing Lists (by topic)

Twitter Contributions

The following links are to Twitter feeds that are meant to help you with the ongoing awareness training controls in your user awareness program:

• User-level Security Awareness Reminders:   www.twitter.com/vigilize
• Technical-level Security Awareness Information:    www.twitter.com/infotexnow

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Then, assemble your toolbox!
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Policies / Procedures / Tools / Articles:

• Awareness Training Procedure
• User Awareness Exercise
• Security Awareness Training Puzzle
• Identity Theft Prevention
• Social Media PowerPoint Slides
• The Lowest Hanging Fruit
• The One Control
• Word Search for Security Awareness
• FFIEC Resources:
  • Ongoing Awareness
  • Board Awareness
  • Management Awareness

Other related websites and online training:

• FDIC “Top 10″ List of Online Resources for Consumers
• Really Cool Videos About Security:    http://mindfulsecurity.com/
• More Videos at OnGuardOnline:    http://www.onguardonline.gov
• Source of New Videos:    Search www.youtube.com for “Information Security” . . . . it’s that simple!
• BVS Performance Systems:   http://www.bvs.com/
• Banker’s Academy:    http://bankersacademy.com/security.php
• Bankers Training Certification Center:     http://www.bankerstraining.com/
• Bank Info Security:     http://www.bankinfosecurity.com/
• Bankers Online:     http://www.bankersonline.com//
• Security Briefs (infotex newsletter “User Level”) and other security news:     http://newsletters.infotex.com

Recommended Technical “Starting Points”:

• YouTube Video about Zeus Bot Application:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9Vb4zS6ZmE
• Top 10 Web Vulnerabilities (2004, 2007, 2010):   http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Top_Ten_Project
• OWASP Educational Videos:   http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Video
• CISA, CISM and CRISC Governing Body (ISACA):   http://www.isaca.org/
• Windows Patching (among many others):    http://www.ultimatewindowssecurity.com/Default.aspx
• CISSP Governing Body (ISC²):   www.isc2.org

Games:

• OnGuardOnline:    http://www.onguardonline.gov
• State of Vermont:    http://itsecurity.vermont.gov/Fun_with_Security/games

Posters:

• infotex Awareness Posters:     http://m.infotex.com/posters
• Native Intelligence, Inc.:   http://www.nativeintelligence.com/ni-posters/posters.asp
• University of Michigan:    http://www.itd.umich.edu/posters/
• US-Cert:   http://www.us-cert.gov/reading_room/distributable.html
• U.S. Security Awareness:   http://www.ussecurityawareness.org/highres/security-awareness.html

Horror Stories:

• Running list of security breaches:   http://www.privacyrights.org/data-breach#CP
• Clearinghouse of Security Alerts Affecting the Banking Industry:   http://www.fsisac.com

Vulnerability News:

• infotex Portal:    my.infotex.com
• The Latest Iteration of bleedingsnort.com (founded by infotex):   http://www.emergingthreats.net/
• The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT):   http://www.us-cert.gov/
• News for Nerds.  Stuff that matters:   http://slashdot.org/
• A large Source for Information Security Training, Certification and Research in the World:   http://www.sans.org/
• NoticeBored:    http://noticebored.com/index.html

One Response to “Awareness Tools”

Comment from dhadaway
Time 02/03/2011 at 1:23 pm

Here are two password strength checker tools:

https://www.microsoft.com/protect/fraud/passwords/checker.aspx?WT.mc_id=Site_Link

and

http://askthegeek.us/pwd_meter/index.htm