Sample Security Awareness Topics

• Avoiding spam
• Data backup and storage
• Data confidentiality
• Desktop security
• Email security
• Encryption and transmission of sensitive information
• Handheld device security
• Incident response
• Individual accountability
• Laptop security when traveling
• Logical access controls
• Media inventory, secure transfer, and media sanitization
• Password usage and management
• Patching of systems
• Personally owned systems at work
• Policy and noncompliance implications
• Safe web browsing
• Shoulder surfing
• Social engineering
• Software licensing
• System environment and risks to data
• Unknown e-mail attachments
• Using business systems at home
• Viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other malicious code
• Visitors and reporting unusual activity