Awareness Training & Virus Defense

infectionvectors.com

October 2004

Awareness training is simply arming your users with enough information about malicious code to allow them to make responsible decisions. infectionvectors.com makes the following presentation templates available via this site in hopes of promoting short, but data-filled, training sessions as part of other introductory or regular IA/IT programs.

Presentations

End-User Virus Awareness (PPT)

This short course in what to watch for should help any user become a vital part of the enterprise anti-virus strategy. The slides come with notes (a solid understanding of virus/phishing techniques is recommended for the presenter) and should serve as a foundation for integrating this type of training into any environment.

Additional Slides for Technical Personnel (PPT)

System administrators may desire additional training from the security team, these slides will help pave the way.

Papers

Beyond the existing white papers on the site, which give a good overview to anti-virus strategies and malcode, the following training-specific documents have been added:

Measuring Awareness

Having the means to train and measuring that training's success are different beasts. This report not only looks at how awareness programs can be measured, but also at the value they can provide to a company. 

Worms Stopped by Awareness

Training programs help secure networks in many ways, this report examines the malcode that is deflected because of investments in end-user awareness programs.

Fighting Virus Voodoo

The last part in the "Investing in Awareness" series deals with fighting the sensationalism of viruses to pervade your organization. There's no magic to defending a network against computer viruses because viruses aren't magic themselves.

Phishing Awareness: Phishing Trip Part 1

Phishing attempts bombard every spam recipient each day. Protect yourself and users in your care (including enterprise clients and relatives alike). This report examines a number of scams all pointed at Washington Mutual users.