Stop the Black Plague of Death with Corporate Security Training

Security Black Plague of Death Affects Today's Corporate Information with Unauthorized Computer System Access

Parsippany, New Jersey (PRWEB) January 15, 2004 --In the years between 1347 and 1350, more than 25 million people succumbed to the Black Plague. Today's Black Plague affects the health of countless corporations, accounting for millions of dollars of corrupted and stolen corporate computer information. According to a survey conducted by Information Security Magazine, 91.6 percent of companies have suffered from unauthorized access by hackers.

These are dangerous times. The potential damage to security from a cyber-based attack includes devastating interruptions of critical communications, transportation, and other services. The US government has been trying to make all corporations aware of the huge dangers of a network attack. A network attack doesn't just cost enormous loss of time and money. A network attack can stop a company dead in its tracks. Just the simple opening of email attachments opens computer ports, making networks easily accessible to hackers, paving the way for the Black Plague of Death to a kill a company's assets and reputation. Continuous Training and Educating employees are a more effective solution.

Software By Bay's (www.softwarebybay.com) Web/Intranet/CD based Information Security Education (WISE) training program helps companies avoid this new plague of the 21st century. The program is a series of interactive courses to help companies and their employees increase their knowledge of ongoing internal and external security breaches and attacks, and the defenses available to protect against them.

WISE is a self-paced training course that provides training ranging from general security awareness and security management to detailed technical training.

"Antivirus software and firewalls are not enough to protect employees from errors that can threaten a company's IT infrastructure. The right training can help reduce exposure to the weakest link in information security: the employee," said John Bay, President and CEO of Software By Bay.

The course components teach employees the proper use of organization resources like computers, email, and the Internet, trains them to identify intrusions from hackers, viruses, the hacker's improper use of social engineering, and allows the employee and his/her manager to combine their efforts in the strengthened defense of information and physical assets.

Employees can pace themselves, begin and end a session at any time and pick up where they left off, while they gain skills in information:

Security concepts and policies
Acceptable system use
Business use of email
Malicious code as pertaining to viruses
Email worms
Trojan horses
Data handling
Security breach management
Threat identification and assessment
Hacker and denial of service attacks.

Software By Bay president John Bay added, "This is NOT a PowerPoint slide show on the web. It is a true learning experience that incorporates a number of components including text and voice in combination with video, animation, simulation, and interactive sessions."

Based on the internationally recognized ISO 17799 information security standards that establish information security best practices, the course program has been designed to provide training for all levels of company personnel, ranging from general security awareness and security management to detailed technical training.

The introductory special cost for each course is $99. Annual updates are $39.95. CD's are $10.00 each if purchased with the course. Site license pricing is available.

A free four-minute Flash video presentation and a security screensaver can be downloaded from www.softwarebybay.com for those who wish to learn more about today's cyber-dangers, and demonstrates what a hacker does to infiltrate a system.

For information on the complete series, a press kit, the Flash video and information screensaver, contact Joel Hudesman at 973-257-1205, Ext 5506 or USA Toll Free: 1-866-973-8324 or Fax: 973-257-1607, emailto:joel@softwarebybay.com. Software By Bay is located at 99 Cherry Hill Road, Suite 300,Parsippany,
New Jersey 07054.

About Software By Bay:
SoftwareByBay is the trademark of John Bay & Associates, LLC, a company of seasoned veterans in the Information Technology field, providing clients with logical solutions through specially designed software application products. With average service of 25 years founding and managing businesses in software development for public safety, computer security, and wireless data access, the company's experienced team delivers to the client a high degree of value and safety from a boutique of technology applications that provide security awareness and protection, ease of access to disparate information and business intelligence, as well as data search, archiving, and retrieval solutions.

NFR copies are available of the Security Training, also please contact us if you would like the CD of the four-minute Flash video presentation and/or the security screensaver. For those who wish to learn more about today's cyber-dangers, and demonstrates what a hacker does to infiltrate a system.

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