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August’s topic: industrial espionage 
All too often we read about serious information security incidents
involving the disclosure and exploitation of personal information, credit card numbers, social security numbers, email addresses and that sort of thing. When it comes to incidents involving the disclosure
and exploitation of proprietary information, however, the news stories are relatively rare. Why is that?
It’s conceivable that there are just not that many incidents, but its rather more likely that most simply don’t see the light of day – in other words, they are kept quiet by the organizations concerned. What’s more, some incidents affecting proprietary information may not be recognized as such by management: industrial espionage is cloak-and-dagger stuff after all, and managers are oh so busy.
The NoticeBored materials for August shine the awareness spotlight on the protection of proprietary information and trade secrets against two quite different categories of security incident. Click here to find out more.
While the editable security awareness materials are only available to paying customers, everyone is welcome to the free newsletter with our compliments. If that’s all you need, go for it!
Human factors and security awareness books 
Our research for last month’s awareness module was greatly assisted by David Lacey’s book Managing the
Human Factor in Information Security - read our book review for more on this excellent tome. If you have anything to do with information security, we recommend reading this book ... along with Managing an Information Security and Privacy Awareness and Training Program by Rebecca Herold if you are already sold
on the value of awareness and training and wish to plan your program. The eagerly anticipated second edition of Rebecca’s book will be reviewed here soon after we receive our copy, hot off the press.
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