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War  ·  3145 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."



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War  ·  3145 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thanks! She loves it though. Whether she is working to improve established policy, or building the information security protocol and procedure from the ground up. In my cases a lot of the programs she implements have seen remarkable turnover. For instance she had this program in one of the offices nearby where it was all about password strength awareness. She set up everyone by department and gave them a dummy account where they were to create a password based off the guidelines she had taught during the event. They would return next week to test the password strength of each department, and then test to see if they had saved the password safely. Whichever department had the least number of cracked passwords by the IT department won like some prizes. Like it is seriously basic programs like that, that raised awareness of how vulnerable passwords are....Like she created a game for adults.

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