1. How does a security awareness & training policy impact an organization’s ability to mitigate risks, threats, and vulnerabilities?
Security awareness training is a formal process for educating employees about computer security. A good security awareness program should educate employees about corporate policies and procedures for working with information technology (IT). Employees should receive information about who to contact if they discover a security threat and be taught that data as a valuable corporate asset. 2. Why do you need a security awareness & training policy if you have new hires attend or participate in the organization’s security awareness training program during new hire orientation?
An employee security awareness program can alleviate the problem of employee security breaches by clarifying why security is important. 3. What is the relationship between an Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) and a Security Awareness & Training Policy?
An acceptable use policy (AUP) is a document that outlines a set of rules to be followed by users or customers of a set of computing resources, which could be a computer network, website or large computer system. Security awareness training is a formal process for educating employees about corporate policies and procedures for working with information technology. 4. Why is it important to prevent users from engaging in downloading or installing applications and software found on the Internet?
There are hundreds of malicious programs that can cause damage to computers and information on the computers. They can also slow down machine, and they might even use the computer to spread themselves to entire organization. 5. When trying to combat software vulnerabilities in the Workstation Domain, what is needed most to deal with operating system, application, and other software installations?
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