E-courses Now Boost Online-Security Awareness

As corporations and individuals face their growing vulnerability to computer-related crime, veteran e-learning company MindRise has launched two Web-based, self-paced courses to help them stay e-safe." The courses address the issues, precautions, and remedies simply and practically, with an emphasis on personal behavior.

Godfrey Parkin
MindRise.com, Inc.
11915 Wolf Run Lane
Clifton, VA 20124
voice: +1-703-250-3008
fax: +1-703-250-5079
e-mail: esafe@mindrise.com
Website: http://www.mindrise.com

E-courses Now Boost Online-Security Awareness

Washington, DC (PRWEB) August 22, 2003 -- Spyware" lets outsiders into your computer and your workplace. Computer viruses and worms get more destructive. An online scam is born every minute. Identity theft is one of the worlds fastest-growing crimes. As corporations and individuals face their growing vulnerability to computer-related crime, veteran e-learning company MindRise has launched two Web-based, self-paced courses to help them stay e-safe."

The Staying E-safe courses--Security for Computer Users and Privacy for Computer Users--address the issues, precautions, and remedies simply and practically, with an emphasis on personal behavior. Together, these MindRise courses provide an understanding of the risks to data security and personal privacy inherent in our use of computers and the Internet--and teach how to avoid, recognize, and react to common dangers.

Data-security training aimed at experienced technical managers has been around for years. But the front line of defense--and the first to fall victim--are individual computer users, whose awareness may not be that sharp," says MindRise president Godfrey Parkin. These people have almost certainly heard about dangers such as identity theft and computer viruses, but they may not know enough to take adequate precautions. The MindRise Staying E-safe courses help nontechnical computer users develop the competence to deal with these crucial issues."

Relying on technical managers to guide workers individually on computer safety is inefficient. Handing out a computer-usage policy or burying it on an intranet are ineffective ways for people to learn. Individuals should be taught"--not just told"--how to protect themselves and their companies, and MindRises Staying E-safe courses do just that. They form a knowledge-based barrier against threats to data security and personal privacy. Dangers borne primarily online are best combated, after all, through competence acquired online.

Corporations can license the courses and have MindRise custom-fit them to their own policies and practices. Individuals can access the courses with a simple credit-card purchase online.

About MindRise: MindRise is a veteran custom developer of e-learning courses and management systems, with particular expertise in adapting existing corporate training. Based in Washington, DC, the company provides a full range of e-learning services, including repurposing, authoring, hosting, managing, and off-the-shelf content: the Staying E-safe series complements the Wired-World Smarts series, MindRises e-learning courses that align the thinking of employees with the new economy, and build enterprise-wide confidence, competence, and motivation for the world of e-business.

Contact:
Godfrey Parkin
MindRise.com, Inc.
11915 Wolf Run Lane
Clifton, VA 20124
voice: +1-703-250-3008
fax: +1-703-250-5079
e-mail: esafe@mindrise.com
Website: http://www.mindrise.com

Members of the press may request free access to the courses at the following URL:
http://www.mindrise.com/esafe_corp.htm

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