Security Awareness is really important to me. I believe that creative and long lasting reminders, slogans, and images can really do a lot to help reduce IT security threats. The goal is to keep these ideas and concepts fresh in people’s minds. They may not really understand what the slogan means, but they will be more conscious of what they are doing.

I created this poster for a Security Awareness Competition sponsored by Educase (contest info and past winners). The target placement was for university computer labs, in order to remind users to stay safe on the Internet. One of the big issues in user-space security right now is Phishing and Identity Theft. I decided to tackle this topic in a simple to digest format.

Introduction

This summary report will provide a broad overview of public sector and private sector data breach incidents in the United States. The report aims to better educate readers on the extent of the attacks, what vulnerabilities and specifics allow for these attacks, and finally to explain the consequences of these attacks. It should be noted that while many institutions are required to report data breaches, not all attacks are accounted for publicly or are even discovered internally. As the reported numbers and actual number of incidents continue to increase it becomes increasingly important to study past incidents in order to prevent or limit future data breach attacks.