Did you know that October is the National Cyber Security Awareness Month? Well you may not have known prior to this September but, due to the heavy press coverage of the event this year, you do now!
The National Cyber Security Awareness Month is celebrating its 9th year of existence with online talks and lectures to help spread public awareness of online safety issues. The event is hosted by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC; an organization that exists to provide governments worldwide in an advisory role).
MS-ISAC and their parent organization, the Center for Internet Security, is also offering a large number of IT security jobs covering project management, analysis and tech work. They also feature a pretty neat dashboard for sharing information gleaned from cyber attacks including common ports and IP addresses under attack, check the MS-ISAC Dashboard App for more information (while it doesn’t seem very extensive at the moment, it may be updated as time goes on).
NCSAM events are being hosted by a number of organizations and companies across the globe. Already we’ve seen some cool Facebook activity in the form of interactive lectures. For more official evvents check out the NCSAM calender here (note that many of the online events aren’t listed. For those be sure to check Twitter #NCSAM or watch related hashtags and tweets on Twitterfall).
For more information from the Department of Homeland Security please visit this website:
http://www.dhs.gov/national-cyber-security-awareness-month
In the spirit of NCSAM, security & compliance firm InfoSight Inc. just posted a link to one of their interesting YouTube videos on their Twitter account. The video debunks popular computer safety myths. Feel free to check out that video below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2rBbmQOCTI
(All rights for the video belong to InfoSight Inc. and were provided for your viewing pleasure by embedding as is allowed by the Standard YouTube License regarding published public videos. I highly recommend checking InfoSight’s other Youtube videos if you’re new to internet security.)
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