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War  ·  3140 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How "normal" people use the internet, and how can we fix that behavior?

My mom works in this field so to speak. It is growing rapidly as corporations realize that the largest number of breaches into their internal network are caused by employee's having "password" for a password. My mom usually finds work very easily because the entire field is almost completely empty which says something. A lot of the work she does is simple stuff to give people basic information about protecting their terminals, watching what they send in e-mails, and general protections on the internet. My mom is an average woman, but what I commend her for most of all is she knows it and she uses it with deadly precision (I guess that makes her greater than average?). A lot of the informational events she has are mandatory for employees to attend no matter their position, and she is one to make sure that even executive board members are briefed on matters of security as it pertains to the company.

I do think however corporations have become more and more aware of the threat that the average person has on their company which means one of two things. Either they invest in services like the one my mother has worked in for nearly two decades, or they turn their entire workforce into robots. Whichever they choose I think that corporations could be a driving force in the field of internet literacy by creating a need for people to understand the internet "for the sake of their job."