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CSO Security Awareness Weekly Jan 25, 2016 Editor's Note: Happy Monday and welcome to CSO's Security Awareness Weekly newsletter! You are receiving this because you are subscribed to other CSO newsletters and we thought you would enjoy our newest offering, which will provide you with a weekly round up of our best features, news, tips and analysis on security awareness. We hope you'll enjoy Security Awareness Weekly and will find plenty of useful ideas and information that you can use immediately for a more secure workforce in your organization. If you have any ideas or suggestions, please feel free to reach out to me jgoodchild@cxo.com Sincerely, Joan Goodchild, Editor-in-Chief, CSO The 7 elements of a successful security awareness program A list of action items for CSOs looking to bolster their security awareness programs. Read More ▶ Your Must-Read Stories • Ignore the world's worst passwords, look at how they're created instead • CISOs should take security training seriously • From start to finish, inside a PayPal Phishing scam • Security awareness: Training moms and end users to spot a scam White Paper: Navisite 10 Things You Need to Know About Deploying Microsoft Office 365 Microsoft Office 365 is a top choice for enterprises that want a cloud-based suite of productivity/ collaboration applications. With Office 365, you get access to Microsoft Office solutions practically anytime, anywhere, on virtually any device. Read More ▶ Ignore the world's worst passwords, look at how they're created instead Every year SplashData releases a list of the world's worst passwords, and for the last five years that list hasn't changed much. However, while the list is an amusing look at password blunders, the real lessons are in how and why those passwords exist in the first place. Salted Hash has collected some raw data in order to help clarify these lessons. Read More ▶ CISOs should take security training seriously Security awareness training is pivotal to your organization's information security posture, and, now, it's more important than ever before. Read More ▶ From start to finish, inside a PayPal Phishing scam Phishing remains one of the fastest and easiest methods of personal compromise. Read More ▶ Security awareness: Training moms and end users to spot a scam Char Yarema is of the generation of parents who did not grow up using technology, so her son, Jonathan Yarema, security consultant at Trustwave, has impressed upon her the importance of using caution and patience when surfing the web. Read More ▶ White Paper: Navisite 10Things You Need to Know About Hybrid IT Strategies A Hybrid infrastructure-bringing together on-premises and cloud capabilities-is a strategy many enterprises are embracing in order to maximize the flexibility and performance they need from their IT operations. Read More ▶ Top 5 Stories 1. Linux zero-day affects most Androids, millions of Linux PCs 2. Social engineering: 7 signs that something is just not right 3. 5 things that top CSO candidates need on a resume 4. 5 biggest cybersecurity concerns facing CIOs, CISOs in 2016 5. IBM will bring Watson to security later this year Editor's Picks 1. 15 hot, new security and privacy apps for Android and iOS 2. How to get creative with your penetration testing 3. 5 security bolstering strategies that won't break the bank 4. What's wrong with this picture? The NEW clean desk test 5. Inside an attack by the Syrian Electronic Army

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