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The World's Largest (and BEST!) Cyber Defense Competition for Teens...In Ames Iowa!

Last month Iowa State University, in Ames, held a unique type of IT Olympics for teens...

cyberDefense Competition preps students for real-world information assurance

Thirty-seven teams of Iowa high school students protected their computer networks in the world's largest cyber defense competition, part of the IT-Olympics at Iowa State University.

This truly is an awesome, awesome program! Huge kudos to Dr. Doug Jacobson for creating and continuing to offer year after year a fantastic learning experience to truly get teens excited and interested in information security.

More universities, professional organizations and companies need to support, and even hold, events such as this!! To learn how to do it right, get in touch with Dr. Jacobson!

The more interest, understanding and excitement we can build in children, at even the youngest ages, for privacy and information security, the better our future leaders, in all positions and industries, will be at securing information and reducing privacy breaches; it will just seem logical to them to secure information in all forms!

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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 the past two decades. 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 world's best privacy experts and on their list of the best privacy consulting firms in both 2007 and 2008. 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 13th 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.