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Charalampos Manifavas - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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HCI (24) - DSAPE Dynamic Security Awareness Program Evaluation
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2014Co-Authors: Charalampos Manifavas, Konstantinos Fysarakis, Konstantinos Rantos, George HatzivasilisAbstract:This paper addresses the importance of continuously evaluating an organization's Awareness Program and provides guidelines that will help organizations assess their efforts, extending the authors' work in [1]. The proposed methodology evaluates an Awareness Program considering the most common and essential methods used for delivering Awareness material. Key Awareness-related processes and accompanying quantitative metrics are identified, along with a methodology for dynamically evaluating the metrics and the overall Awareness Program as a whole. A software tool is developed, to facilitate the deployment and maintenance of the assessment methods and to formalize their aggregation and evaluation. An organization's security Awareness posture is modelled as a dynamic system and the Awareness level is calculated and monitored through time via Event Calculus. Furthermore, the tool can be deployed in a multi-agent form, to enable its use by organizations operating through remote offices and distributed locations.
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dsape dynamic security Awareness Program evaluation
International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 2014Co-Authors: Charalampos Manifavas, Konstantinos Fysarakis, Konstantinos Rantos, George HatzivasilisAbstract:This paper addresses the importance of continuously evaluating an organization's Awareness Program and provides guidelines that will help organizations assess their efforts, extending the authors' work in [1]. The proposed methodology evaluates an Awareness Program considering the most common and essential methods used for delivering Awareness material. Key Awareness-related processes and accompanying quantitative metrics are identified, along with a methodology for dynamically evaluating the metrics and the overall Awareness Program as a whole. A software tool is developed, to facilitate the deployment and maintenance of the assessment methods and to formalize their aggregation and evaluation. An organization's security Awareness posture is modelled as a dynamic system and the Awareness level is calculated and monitored through time via Event Calculus. Furthermore, the tool can be deployed in a multi-agent form, to enable its use by organizations operating through remote offices and distributed locations.
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how effective is your security Awareness Program an evaluation methodology
Information Security Journal: A Global Perspective, 2012Co-Authors: Konstantinos Rantos, Konstantinos Fysarakis, Charalampos ManifavasAbstract:Security Awareness is an important element of every security infrastructure, especially since the human factor often proves to be the weakest link. Companies and organizations have developed Programs that seek to promote security and enhance users' perception of the importance of exercising security. As raising Awareness, however, is an on-going effort, the campaign has to be regularly evaluated so that corrective actions can be taken in order to achieve the best results. This paper addresses the importance of evaluating an organization's Awareness Program and provides guidelines and a methodology that will help organizations assess their efforts. The proposed framework includes the evaluation of individual Awareness-related processes via respective metrics as well as the aggregation of the aforementioned metrics to produce an overall evaluation score, usable both as a benchmark for future iterations of the evaluation Program as well as a figure presentable to higher management.
Sidney Zisook - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the suicide prevention and depression Awareness Program at the university of california san diego school of medicine
Academic Medicine, 2012Co-Authors: Christine Moutier, William A Norcross, Pam Jong, Marc A Norman, Brittany Kirby, Tara Mcguire, Sidney ZisookAbstract:To address physician depression and suicide at one U.S. medical school, a faculty committee launched a Suicide Prevention and Depression Awareness Program in 2009 whose focus is medical students’, residents’, and faculty physicians’ mental health. The Program consists of a two-pronged approach: (1) screening, assessment, and referral and (2) education. The screening process is anonymous, confidential, and Web based, using customized software created by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. The educational component consists of a medical-schoolwide campaign including Grand Rounds on physician burnout, depression, and suicide as well as similar sessions geared toward trainees. The authors document the process of developing and implementing the Program, including the Program’s origins and goals, their critical decision-making processes, and successes and challenges of the Program’s first year. Of the 2,860 medical students, housestaff, and faculty who received the e-mail invitation in the first year, 374 individuals (13%) completed screens, 101/374 (27%) met criteria for significant risk for depression or suicide, and 48/374 (13%) received referrals for mental health evaluation and treatment. The Program provided 29 Grand Rounds and other presentations during the first year. This may be the first Program that aims to increase Awareness of depression and to destigmatize help-seeking in order to prevent suicide and whose target population includes the full panoply of medical school constituents: students, residents, and faculty physicians. The Program was well received in its first year, and while demonstrating the prevention of suicides is difficult, the authors are encouraged by the Program’s results thus far.
Abdallah Tubaishat - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Security Awarness Program for Customers Using Online Banking
GSTF Journal on Computing (JoC), 2015Co-Authors: Khulood Al Zaabi, Abdallah TubaishatAbstract:Due to the increasing demand on electronic payments, fraud methods are also increasing which has resulted in the loss of millions of dollars worldwide each year in the banking sector. Several studies have been conducted to counter against fraud in the banking domain and to come up with ways to secure online payments. None of these studies, however, have resulted in a comprehensive Awareness Program which targets customer banking. The purpose of this research is to propose an Awareness Program, Information Security Awareness Program, dubbed ISAP. We believe that such a Program is needed for the following reasons: a) in order to enhance the level of trust in online banking, b) to protect each customer’s personal information and c) to comply with the online bank requirements. We have identified several online frauds, and then we recommended some best practices for online protection in the following areas: online shopping, online protection, password protection, operating system protection, identity theft protection, and debit/credit card protection.
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an information security Awareness Program to address common security concerns in it unit
International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations, 2014Co-Authors: Shadi Al Awawdeh, Abdallah TubaishatAbstract:Educated and trained people are critical success factor in any IT work environment to minimize threats or misuse of the organizational assets that may damage the growth, excellence, and efficiency of any business. However, humans are always the weakest point in any security plan. Awareness is by far the most successful technique that does not cost much when compared with training and education and may reduce the total expenditure on security. Having a properly planned information security Awareness Program greatly impact the raising of the Awareness level among the organization's staff. Information Technology unit represents a critical success factor in knowledge management and plays a major role in the decision-making process within any organization. We assess that the initial step in delivering any security Awareness plan to the business should start from within IT unit, and this is aligned with the perception that security is the sole responsibility of the IT department. Most of the former studies proposed general information security Awareness Programs and guidelines, but few of them targeted IT unit. The purpose of this research is to propose an information security Awareness Program (ISAP) to be used by IT unit to enhance the level of information security standard regardless of the organization type. Our research study differs from other studies in that we targeted the IT unit when building ISAP. Furthermore, we identify several Awareness knowledge areas for each sub-division.
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ITNG - An Information Security Awareness Program to Address Common Security Concerns in IT Unit
2014 11th International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations, 2014Co-Authors: Shadi Al Awawdeh, Abdallah TubaishatAbstract:Educated and trained people are critical success factor in any IT work environment to minimize threats or misuse of the organizational assets that may damage the growth, excellence, and efficiency of any business. However, humans are always the weakest point in any security plan. Awareness is by far the most successful technique that does not cost much when compared with training and education and may reduce the total expenditure on security. Having a properly planned information security Awareness Program greatly impact the raising of the Awareness level among the organization's staff. Information Technology unit represents a critical success factor in knowledge management and plays a major role in the decision-making process within any organization. We assess that the initial step in delivering any security Awareness plan to the business should start from within IT unit, and this is aligned with the perception that security is the sole responsibility of the IT department. Most of the former studies proposed general information security Awareness Programs and guidelines, but few of them targeted IT unit. The purpose of this research is to propose an information security Awareness Program (ISAP) to be used by IT unit to enhance the level of information security standard regardless of the organization type. Our research study differs from other studies in that we targeted the IT unit when building ISAP. Furthermore, we identify several Awareness knowledge areas for each sub-division.
Camilla Wasserman - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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suicide prevention for youth a mental health Awareness Program lessons learned from the saving and empowering young lives in europe seyle intervention study
BMC Public Health, 2012Co-Authors: Camilla Wasserman, Christina W Hoven, Danuta Wasserman, Vladimir Carli, Marco Sarchiapone, Susana Alhalabi, Alan Apter, Judit Balazs, Julio BobesAbstract:The Awareness Program was designed as a part of the EU-funded Saving and Empowering Young Lives in Europe (SEYLE) intervention study to promote mental health of adolescents in 11 European countries by helping them to develop problem-solving skills and encouraging them to self-recognize the need for help as well as how to help peers in need. For this descriptive study all coordinators of the SEYLE Awareness Program answered an open-ended evaluation questionnaire at the end of the project implementation. Their answers were synthesized and analyzed and are presented here. The results show that the Program cultivated peer understanding and support. Adolescents not only learned about mental health by participating in the Awareness Program, but the majority of them also greatly enjoyed the experience. Recommendations for enhancing the successes of mental health Awareness Programs are presented. Help and cooperation from schools, teachers, local politicians and other stakeholders will lead to more efficacious future Programs.
George Hatzivasilis - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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HCI (24) - DSAPE Dynamic Security Awareness Program Evaluation
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2014Co-Authors: Charalampos Manifavas, Konstantinos Fysarakis, Konstantinos Rantos, George HatzivasilisAbstract:This paper addresses the importance of continuously evaluating an organization's Awareness Program and provides guidelines that will help organizations assess their efforts, extending the authors' work in [1]. The proposed methodology evaluates an Awareness Program considering the most common and essential methods used for delivering Awareness material. Key Awareness-related processes and accompanying quantitative metrics are identified, along with a methodology for dynamically evaluating the metrics and the overall Awareness Program as a whole. A software tool is developed, to facilitate the deployment and maintenance of the assessment methods and to formalize their aggregation and evaluation. An organization's security Awareness posture is modelled as a dynamic system and the Awareness level is calculated and monitored through time via Event Calculus. Furthermore, the tool can be deployed in a multi-agent form, to enable its use by organizations operating through remote offices and distributed locations.
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dsape dynamic security Awareness Program evaluation
International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 2014Co-Authors: Charalampos Manifavas, Konstantinos Fysarakis, Konstantinos Rantos, George HatzivasilisAbstract:This paper addresses the importance of continuously evaluating an organization's Awareness Program and provides guidelines that will help organizations assess their efforts, extending the authors' work in [1]. The proposed methodology evaluates an Awareness Program considering the most common and essential methods used for delivering Awareness material. Key Awareness-related processes and accompanying quantitative metrics are identified, along with a methodology for dynamically evaluating the metrics and the overall Awareness Program as a whole. A software tool is developed, to facilitate the deployment and maintenance of the assessment methods and to formalize their aggregation and evaluation. An organization's security Awareness posture is modelled as a dynamic system and the Awareness level is calculated and monitored through time via Event Calculus. Furthermore, the tool can be deployed in a multi-agent form, to enable its use by organizations operating through remote offices and distributed locations.
