HELLO! FROM THE PRIVACY & INFORMATION SECURITY DEPARTMENT
Welcome to our Spring 2021 privacy and information security newsletter. In this edition, we focus on the human cost of social engineering. REMINDER, training courses are due. Please checkout our website at: http://www.webster.edu/privacy-security/.
FINAL REMINDER: REQUIRED ANNUAL EMPLOYEE TRAINING IS DUE
The Office of Privacy and Information Security will be offering REQUIRED privacy and information security training and awareness courses for all employees. Click Here!
THE HUMAN COST OF SOCIAL ENGINEERING
People are often talked about as the weak link and while it is important to understand human fallibility and the ways people will fail, be fooled, or tricked, we also have a moral and ethical obligation to look after those targeted and avoid causing undue distress.
Students and employees using their own computers and difficulties in implementing security policies pose a double-barreled threat to universities. Click here!
SOLVING THE CRYTOGRAPHY RIDDLE
The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity releases two reports on cryptography: one on the progress of post-quantum cryptography standardization, and the other on exploring the technologies under the hood of crypto-assets.
