protection awareness SecAware

‘Information protection’ is a vague title for an awareness module … which gives us (and you!) plenty of latitude in the scope. Information is a valuable yet vulnerable resource. We rely on information to communicate and find out about things, to learn and be entertained, to express ourselves and collaborate, and yet every day: • People are misled, tricked and manipulated through inaccurate and incomplete information (e.g. fake news, scams and frauds, half-truths and lies); • Businesses and individuals suffer when their IT systems gets hacked or infected with viruses (e.g. ransomware and spyware); • Trade secrets and sensitive personal information are disclosed or stolen and exploited inappropriately (e.g. piracy and counterfeiting); • Important paperwork gets lost, damaged or stolen, and computer disks fail unexpectedly, sometimes for no obvious reason; • People forget things, misinterpret stuff and presume too much; • Half way through a sentence, we sometimes get dis...