Is Your Company's Security Awareness a Turkey Shoot?

November 22, 2006; 08:55 AM
Thanksgiving is right around the corner. Will you be thankful that your organization is safe from e-crime? Or, will you be called away from family, dinner, and the football games to address the latest security breach?

CSO magazine and Carnegie Mellon University’s latest survey reported that a whopping 36 percent of respondents are still seeing an increase in e-crime. CIO Insight magazine reported that 47 percent of the largest enterprises they surveyed said they had experienced a security breach over the past 12 months. Plus, 75 percent of CIO Insight’s respondents from large enterprises agreed that Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs and social networks will increase security risks over the next three years.

CSOs, CISOs, and ISOs deal with security initiatives across their organizations. With hacking, phishing, spoofing, denial-of-service, and other malicious attacks rapidly increasing to levels not previously seen, corporate information systems offer new opportunities for theft, fraud, and misrepresentation. That equates to short- and long-term financial, brand, and corporate reputation damage, especially when 70 percent of all information security breaches stem from lack of employee knowledge of proper security procedures and protocols.

Viyya Technologies’ WISE e-Learning Security Courseware helps address information security breaches to keep organizations safe and secure from today’s electronic threats. This Web-based, security standards-based training program uses a variety of multi-media learning aids to educate employees on the threats today’s companies face – combining text, voice, animation, simulation, interactive response sessions, and testing for improved learning and retention. WISE e-Learning Courseware increases information retention by 30 percent over traditional training methods, and self-paced also results in reduced training time and costs.

WISE courseware:

• Provides an easy-to-use, scalable solution for security training education needs
• Teaches security to employees: security awareness, privacy awareness, security management, personnel security, and much more
• Allows employees to learn at their own pace
• Meets ISO 177799 "Best Practices" Standards and is Scorm 1.21 and 2004 compliant
• Rigorously meets training requirements mandated by today's regulatory programs: HIPPA, SOX, GLBA, NERC, PIPEDA, and others

For a limited time, Viyya is offering a free WISE e-Learning Course and online demonstrations to organizations interested in increasing and enhancing their security awareness. For more information, contact Joel Hudesman, Viyya Business Development, at 973-795-1310 or [email protected].

About Viyya Technologies

Viyya Technologies (Pink Sheets:VYON) is the developer and marketer of the world's most advanced, web-based information management application. The company's core technology manages disparate information from the Internet, corporate intranets, databases, newsgroups, email, and third-party feeds by enabling users to customize the way they collect, process, distribute and store data. VIYYA™ gives users the ability to retrieve filtered content from many sources, determine the relevancy of the information, and have the information processed into notifications, daily reminders, newspapers, or archived for future use. For additional company information, please visit www.viyya.com.