Public Awareness

Step 6 of President Obama’s Cybersecurity plan is a great idea and it states: Step 6 – Initiate a national public awareness and education campaign to promote cybersecurity. Lessons Learned from national public awareness and education campaigns show that they can work very well with “simple and straightforward” issues such as drunk driving, seat-belts or forest fires.  For example, most of us have heard of “over the limit, under arrest” or “click-it or ticket” or “only you can prevent forest fires”.  But cybersecurity is not “simple and straightforward”. Lessons Learned, experts and reports unanimously agree that cybersecurity related attacks are becoming more and more sophisticatedRead More →