The CyberSafe at USPS site has information security tips and guidelines.
The Postal Service has introduced an online training course to help employees better protect information in the workplace.
The brief course, CyberSafe 101: Passwords and Phishing, is required for all employees with ACE user IDs. The deadline for completion is Sept. 30.
The course will provide employees with a basic understanding of information security. Participants also will learn best practices for creating postal passwords and avoiding online scams to steal sensitive information, also known as “phishing.”
Additionally, participants will learn how to report phishing attempts and other suspicious activity.
CyberSafe 101: Passwords and Phishing is available through the Learning Management System. The course number is 10024251.
The CyberSafe at USPS site has additional guidelines and tips on keeping information secure, both at work and home.
source: USPS News Link
This will be considered the “official discussion” when they discipline (pin the blame) on some poor sap for the next breach. Unless of course it’s management: Good job, take a promotion out of the box.
Guess they can just take my ace access away, don’t really need it. Then, they can actually TALK to me, instead of emailing, on the chance I’ll check my email.
Or, they can write me a letter, that will take 3 or 4 days, to get across-office – thanks, consolidation and no more standards…
I’ve been in maintenance for 25 years, over 20 of it as an Electronic Technician. I just had to take a course on how to read a volt meter. So this sounds like as good a reason as any to waste money.
Elaine said it. Makes no sense expecting the gatekeeper who lost the keys teaching us how to lock the gate.
Nah, they’ll “detail” some handful of postmasters and/or supervisors, pay them mileage, perdiem, maybe a Homewood Suite, to give three day classes that could be done in 20 minutes.
DO NOT VIEW any video!
Management can than sign off on any future security/identity theft problems.
“We warned you when you watched that video. Not our fault now….”
And now and forever more, you’re screwed because management SCREWED UP!!
I never had a problem protecting my personal info, UNTIL the opm f’d it all to hell!
Now they think I need some class to teach me passwords/phishing protocols?
Obviously, a cya plan. And I am NOT buying it!!!
My info. was secure until opm screwed up!
Now opm is trying to put the blame on me?!?
If your nephew is any good odds are quite high he IS a cyber crook. It is awfully tough to become proficient in network security without practicing. Practicing and learning students almost always ends up violating some federal information security laws even those that try not to.
Well, this is a waste of time. The hackers who are capable of this magnitude of computer piracy are very skilled and the remedial steps that would be taught will be far far below the level the real cyber crooks operate on.
This isn’t a slam against the PO either. The government and many industries, home computers, credit card theft are rampant, with the crooks a mile ahead at every level. It is a terrible problem, but perhaps not a total wash. My nephew is a brilliant computer wizard and can spot these people on servers and other high tech machines we normal folk wouldn’t know how to turn on. He’s a very honest and good person, and one whom I have no doubt would have no trouble bringing down cyber crooks. Let’s hope there are more like him out there ready and available to help fight a very serious problem today. Economic failure can wipe a nation out as easily and much more cleverly through computers as plain old war can. We need to get with the times.
Real cyber crooks know that the security chain is only as secure as its weakest link. The problem is that frequently the user is the weakest link. Training of the weak links can decrease the number and weakness of these links and is a necessary part of any decent infosec operation. Though it is not a magic bullet by any means.
I’d pass this test with flying (bleep) ing colors since I already have an IT degree anyway LOL
What a joke, The Chi-Coms steal our information right from under OPM’s noses. And management wants us to be careful online?!?!
typical low IQ postal bureaucrat mismanagers………..screw things up and then try to deflect the blame onto the worker………..they lost 80 Billion since 2009 and not one of them has been fired?
You talkin’ to me?
I f#cked up here and there, time and again but no way I’m responsible for the whole 80B.