Boosting Security Awareness in Colleges

Security breaches, laptop theft, and identity theft happen all the time, and these crimes increase every year. The need for people to become more aware of their digital presence and the threats surrounding it is vital.
The pace at which these threats increase is much faster than our awareness grows, making a bad situation. One way to improve matters is to implement security-awareness programs in colleges and universities.
Why choose colleges? Higher education institutions are an ideal platform for spreading security awareness because they produce so much of our future workforce. With computers everywhere in businesses, it’s essential that these graduates learn about the invisible threats that face them and their employers’ information.
Another benefit of focusing on colleges and universities is that this environment provides both a very good learning atmosphere and people working in many fields. Thus a security-awareness program will benefit not only students in the computer or business fields, but also in medical, environmental, media, and many more disciplines.
Hot Topic: Identity Theft
College students are attractive targets for identity thieves because they generally have clean credit records, allowing thieves to easily take out loans in their names. Many students may also not realize the potential for fraud and do not guard their personal information as closely as they should. Student’s social security numbers, email IDs, and addresses may be listed on everything from identification (continue reading...)