Security Awareness Training and Communication

Security Awareness is the tool most used to inform and educate users on policy and accepted practices and procedures that support the university. It is often the most important and, in many ways, the least expensive way to impact the overall security of an organization. An organization's staff is the most cost-effective countermeasure against security compromises and IT security depends on the cooperation of every user.

Security awareness is also the knowledge and attitude members of an organization possess regarding the protection of the physical and, especially, information assets of that organization. Being security aware means you understand that there is the potential for some people to deliberately or accidentally steal, damage, or misuse the data that is stored within the organization's computer systems and throughout its organization. Therefore, it would be prudent to support the assets of the organization's (non-public personal information [NPPI]).