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Yearly Security Awareness Training Isn't Enough - Interview with Hord Tipton of (ISC)2

Published: June 17, 2009, 8:29 p.m.

From his perch as executive director of (ISC)2, the not-for-profit certifier of IT security professionals, and as the former CIO at the Interior Department, Hord Tipton has a close-up view on what works and doesn't work in regards of training government employees on information security awareness.\n\n

In an interview with Information Security Media Group's GovInfoSecurity.com, Tipton discusses the:\n\n

Need to provide federal employees awareness training more often than once a year because of the ever-changing challenges IT security presents;\nChallenges the government faces in hiring qualified cybersecurity practitioners even if there aren't enough applicants with IT security certification; and\nExpansion of information security awareness beyond government agencies and establishing programs in elementary and secondary schools.\n\n

Tipton spoke with Eric Chabrow, managing editor of GovInfoSecurity.com.