Awareness and Education

On this page:
Classes
Meetings and Events
Printed Materials & Newsletters
Online Materials

To contact the IT Security Services Team for outreach opportunities, send an email to security@mit.edu.

In an effort to address the growing security concerns around computing, IT Security Services offers a number of ways to help you make your computing experience safer.

Classes

• Basic Computer Security Awareness class: This class is for people with limited safe computing knowledge. Seminars are presented with a slide show and speaker and run approximately 45 minutes. View a full-length, on-line training demo of the class.

To find out when the next class will be taking place, check out the ITSS home page.

Meetings and Events

• IT-related events / conferences: A representative of the IT Security team is often present as a speaker at venues that share IT information. Some of these include:
  • IT Partners Conference
  • Security Camp (no longer hosted at MIT)
  • Student Orientation
  • Faculty Orientation
• Security awareness events: Beginning with October 2008, IS&T is making additional efforts to reach the community with cyber security messages and informational events in support of National Cyber Security Awareness Month.
  • The 2008 Campaign
• Face-to-face meetings: We are available to have a face-to-face discussion with your team or department to go over any recommendations, safe computing practices, or questions that you and your team have.
  To schedule a meeting with our team, email us at security@mit.edu.

Printed Materials and Newsletters

• The 2008 Cyber Security Poster Series
  These can be downloaded or free hard copies can be ordered from the 2008 Campaign page
• The Safe Computing Pamphlet Series
  Note: Files are in PDF format and Adobe Reader is required.
• • FAQs About Peer-to-Peer File Sharing (Revised August 2007)
  • Hotspots Can Get You Into Hot Spots (Revised August 2006)
  • Safe Email Practices (Revised August 2006)
  • Halt! Who Goes There? Proper Password Management (Revised August 2006)
  • Sensitive Data: Your Money AND Your Life (Revised January 2008)
  • Ten Steps to Safer Computing (Revised September 2006)

To receive more than one copy of The Safe Computing Pamphlet Series, email us at security@mit.edu.

• IS&T Security-FYI newsletter
  Can be received by subscription.
• is&t newsletter
  Available either in print or online.
  

Online Materials

This web site was designed to help you to educate yourself. We want this to be a useful resource for all your questions regarding using IT on campus properly and safely.

We provide other education and awareness resources on the Resources page.

If you can't find something, email us at security@mit.edu.