We just received the following information from IT Services:
The University of Scranton and IT Services has contracted with SANS Security to provide video based Security Training entitled Securing the Human. This training consists of 20 online videos to aide our user community in learning about Information Security and its importance.
You will be receiving an email from James Franceschelli, noreply@vle.securingthehuman.org, if you haven’t already, with your username and password to access the off campus website. We encourage you to visit the site and begin the trainings. To make it more interesting, we’ve added a security contest where you may win an iPad2 just for completing the video training. The security contest starts today and ends on Dec. 21, 2011.
The e-mail that you probably already received about this, with your e-mail and a password, is legitimate and comes from IT services, even though at first glance it is questionable. It does NOT ask you for any personal information in the e-mail, but will ask you to change your password as you log in. If you have any thoughts and/or concerns, please let us know!
Some Additional Information: There are about 90-95 minutes of videos explaining cybersecurity, and what threats are available. After many videos, there is a short multiple choice quiz that you much get correct in order to “pass” the training. The videos appear to explain the material in plain language, and are likely very good for people unfamiliar with technology and cyber-security. The videos themselves are fairly short (the longest are only about 6 minutes long) so you can watch them a bit at a time in your free time. I recommend them, especially for people unfamiliar with this topic.
UPDATE: The training videos have been changed. There are now significantly fewer topics. There are now only 17 videos, and it appears to be about 40-60 minutes of total video time.
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