Global Security Week – September 5th 2005
We are proposing a regular annual date for global security awareness activities, namely the week leading up to September 11th. By aligning various public and private initiatives around this specific week every year, we can improve security awareness for the common good.
London, England (PRWEB) June 2, 2005 -- Security awareness specialist IsecT
Ltd. has proposed the week leading up to September 11th annually as Global
Security Week. By aligning various public and private initiatives around this
specific week every year, we can improve security awareness for the common
good.
Against a backdrop of global terrorism and organized crime,
security in general (and information security in particular) has become a
vitally-important sociological and business issue. Commercial and governmental
organizations are investing heavily in technical security controls but the
security problems caused by people remain largely unaddressed.
Whilst
responsible businesses and individuals employ a wide range of security measures,
the global Internet community suffers as a result of those irresponsible
businesses and home users who remain largely unaware of security. Hackers and
spammers frequently take control of insecure Internet-connected systems, for
example, to use as platforms for their attacks. Raising the general level of
security awareness is the only feasible means of addressing this issue.
Information security awareness is just as important for the general
public as it is for information security and other IT professionals. We need to
educate our friends, family members and even work colleagues to pay more
attention to information security.
Let’s all do our bit for security -
support Global Security Week.
The lack of global coordination is a key
reason why a succession of well-meaning public computer security awareness
initiatives to date have had little if any impact. A number of ‘security weeks’
have taken place at various times throughout the year… wouldn’t it make sense
for us all in the security industry to agree amongst ourselves on a common
diary?
We are proposing the week leading up to September 11th as an
obvious candidate for Global Security Week. On this basis, Global Security Weeks
over the next five years will start on:
- September 5th 2005
- September
4th 2006
- September 3rd 2007
- September 8th 2008
- September 7th
2009
If you agree with this proposal, we have around three months lead
time to organize ourselves this year or, if that’s not enough, we have fifteen
months to plan and organize for 2006. Anyone with good ideas for security
awareness events is very welcome to share their ideas with the global community
through the campaign coordination website www.GlobalSecurityWeek.com. We encourage webmasters and
publishers to make use of the Global Security Week logo with an optional
hyperlink to www.globalsecurityweek.com
Please get in touch if you
represent or can at least get in contact with industry bodies, government
departments and others who might be persuaded to align their own efforts around
the Global Security Week – the week leading up to September 11th. Let’s see what
we can achieve by all pulling together on this.
About IsecT Ltd. and
NoticeBored
IsecT (“Putting security into IT”) is an independent British
consultancy specializing in security awareness and other aspects of IT
governance. NoticeBored is IsecT’s innovative security awareness product line.
Please visit www.GlobalSecurityWeek.com, www.isect.com or www.NoticeBored.com, or else call Gary Hinson, IsecT’s CEO, on
+44 1428 727 900 for more information.
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Source : http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/6/prweb246402.htm