Re: New Employee Security Training

[James Valente <jvalente () SALEMSTATE EDU>]

We do. 

 

Security does the training (it's organized by HR as part of an "orientation"
and we get 30 minutes for this PowerPoint + questions). I do about 80% of
them and our CISO does the rest. The training is usually done on the first
Tuesday of the following month (or 2 months if there aren't enough hires to
warrant a session) from the hire date.   Right now it only covers
administrative staff (not Faculty), which is unfortunate since Faculty tends
to be a huge part of the population that gets phished and/or infected-though
that may be because they don't get the training. I am working with HR to get
some sort of faculty training in place.

 

I'd say it works pretty well as a majority of the people who I see reporting
things to us are ones I remember from this training (or departments who
request the training for all). Additionally, I don't usually see people that
have sat through the training pop up on any notifications for malware or
being victims of a successful phish. Unfortunately I don't have stats
prepared to show this. 

 

Thanks,
James Valente
Associate Director of Information Security
Salem State University
978.542.2739

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From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv
[mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Thomas Carter
Sent: Friday, 16 June, 2017 15:33
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: [SECURITY] New Employee Security Training

 

Does anyone do IT security training as part of on-boarding new employees? If
so, what do you cover? Who does the training (IT, HR, or?)? When is the
training done? How well does it seem to work for you? What would you do
differently?

 

We would like to implement something like this, but are afraid of
overwhelming a new employee during their HR orientation. Something done a
week or two later may have a better chance of sticking with the end user,
but requires much more time and organization on our part.

 

Thomas Carter
Network & Operations Manager / IT

Austin College
900 North Grand Avenue 
Sherman, TX 75090

Phone: 903-813-2564
 <http://www.austincollege.edu/> www.austincollege.edu

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