As a citizen in the United States, whether we know it or not we all have a role to play in protecting the critical infrastructure.
We see almost daily in the news that citizens in the U.S. are being targeted in cyber-attacks by terrorist groups, Nation States and organized crime groups.
These groups use cybercrime to advance their goals and victimize U.S. citizens and attack our critical infrastructure. Everyone in the U.S. now has a role to play to protect against cybercrime and identity theft.
What are you and your organization doing to protect our critical infrastructure?
What Is the Critical Infrastructure? The nation’s critical infrastructure provides the essential services that underpin American society and serve as the backbone of our nation’s economy, security, and health. We know it as the power we use in our homes, the water we drink, the transportation that moves us, the stores we shop in, and the communication systems we rely on to stay in touch with friends and family.[1]
Cyber security awareness training is not complicated! – Let’s start with the basics and let’s do a few things really well!
I started my law enforcement career in 1978 in the heart of Silicon Valley in California. I watched the law enforcement and our governments’ evolution as computers went from an unproven concept to a way of life.
One of my many assignments with the U.S. Secret Service included the USSS computer section in Washington DC in 1991. As a gun carrying agent among the main-frame computer programmers I was certainly an anomaly. After that assignment, I moved on to a USSS protection assignment and worked in the White House.
For over thirty years, I have felt like Paul Revere trying to tell everyone to get prepared for the pending attacks. For many years, no one listened but in the last few years’ things are finally starting to change.
In 2007, I founded the Center for Information Security Awareness – CFISA (https://www.cfisa.com) to educate people on ways to protect themselves against cybercrime. In our training, we always stress that as citizens we need to protect ourselves, our community and the Nation from growing cyber security threats.
We all have a role in protecting our critical infrastructure and security awareness training can help to reduce risk. Being aware of new crimes and scams in the news is a fundamental part of security awareness training.
Sharing new scams and crimes you hear about in the news with others, is important to ensure that the people you care about do not fall victim to these types of crimes.
The Center for Information Security Awareness, (https://www.cfisa.org) has been providing online and in-person security awareness training since 2007.
All new and updated lessons as of July 2017.
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