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Did You Know February 12 is "Safer Internet Day"?

I got a nice message from Brian Honan yesterday letting me know that February 12 is "Safer Internet Day," or SID for short; (Thanks Brian!)

I really like seeing an occasion that includes and gets youth involved in understanding the security and privacy issues involved with using computers and handling information. In this instance, SID involves youth ages 5 through 19 in different competitions that will raise their awareness of the issues involved in participating in online sites.

I looked at an entry (a PowerPoint presentation) from the U.S. in the 5 - 10 year old category from the Athens-Chilesburg Elementary School in Lexington, Kentucky. It is a compilation of posters created by some of the 4th and 5th graders there. It is great the school got their students involved!

It is good to see children learning at an early age about security and privacy; having these concepts instilled at an early age will make them even better leaders as they mature and start working in businesses and organizations of all types.

I'm looking forward to seeing the other entries from around the world! Think I'll look at a few more now...

I wish I had known about this contest earlier; I would have loved for my 8- and 10-year old sons to have participated!

Take some time to look through the entries. It's too late to enter the contest, but my goodness, what great ideas for awareness communications there are out there!

I need to add this to my growing list of yearly dates recognizing information security and/or privacy...there is now a special day in almost every month.

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Posted by Rebecca Herold on February 6, 2008 9:00 AM |

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Rebecca Herold,CISSP, CIPP, CISM, CISA, FLMI, has been providing information security, privacy and regulatory assistance and services to organizations from a wide range of industries for over 18 years. Rebecca was instrumental in building the information security and privacy program while at Principal Financial Group, which was awarded the CSI Information Security Program of the Year Award in 1998. IT Security ranked Rebecca as one of the top 59 IT security influencers, and Computerworld put Rebecca their list of the 25 top privacy experts and on their list of the 9 best privacy consulting firms. Rebecca has been CPO for two consulting organizations, and has had her own information privacy, security and compliance business since 2004. Rebecca has written chapters for several books, dozens of articles, and has been writing a monthly privacy column for the CSI Alert newsletter since the beginning of 2001, and is working on her 11th book. Some of her other books include The Privacy Papers, Managing an Information Security and Privacy Awareness and Training Program, The Definitive Guide to Security Inside the Perimeter (Realtime Publishers), The Shortcut Guide to Improving IT Service Support through ITIL (Realtime Publishers), and The Practical Guide to HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance. In addition, Rebecca is the leader of The Realtime IT Compliance Community where she posts to her IT Compliance weblog. You can contact Rebecca at: rebecca_herold@realtimepublishers.net.