Re: Security Awareness for students

[Shirley Payne <payne () VIRGINIA EDU>]

A few more ideas for reaching students:

1. Through parents -- If there's a time during summer orientation when
parents and students attend separate meetings (as there is at my
university), try to get security on the agenda for both and tailor the
presentation for the audience. Look for other opportunities, such as
handouts during dorm move-in day, to build awareness among parents.

2. Through peers -- Students talking with students about security can be
a powerful way of grabbing and holding attention. Rodney mentioned the
EDUCAUSE student video contest
(http://www.educause.edu/SecurityVideoContest) based on this idea and
there are other ways students can be enlisted to help with security
awareness efforts. Consulting with students leaders and using a focus
group are good approaches for determining what delivery mechanisms would
work best at your campus and might also gain you some volunteers.

Shirley Payne
University of Virginia

Christopher Penido wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am currently the new Network Security Analyst at NYU and I'm working
> on several security awareness projects for 2006-07. While our group has
> had successes in the past in providing security training and holding
> security awareness events for our Systems Administrators and staff, we
> have had a more challenging time in marketing those sessions and their
> content to our student body. Students are simply not interested in
> security awareness because they have more pressing issues to tend to on
> a daily basis.
>
> With October being Security Awareness month, I would like to query the
> EduCause community on some of the successful practices employed in
> bringing more security awareness to the student community. I was
> particularly interested to know if any group has found success in
> reaching out to students via alternative communication methods, i.e. via
> MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, iTunes, University-hosted security blogs, etc..
>
> These newer types of methods interest me because they would appear to
> break the "mold" of how things are currently done by some security
> groups. Communicating through those aforementioned channels holds a
> strong potential as being an effective means of communication given that
> students frequently communicate through them and they are comfortable
> with that technology.
>
> If anyone has any thoughts on this, it would be most welcome :)
>
> If this is supposed to go in another discussion forum, please let me know.
>
> Best,
>
> Christopher
>
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> Christopher Penido
> Network Security Analyst
> NYU  \ ITS Technology Security Services  \  security () nyu edu
> chris.penido () nyu edu
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