People all over the world are using business networks to collaborate, communicate, and access data. Businesses, eager to increase productivity, have embraced the growing integration of network communications. Now more than ever, employees are far less dependent on their central office space to complete their work. Although this may provide benefits for both employees and employers, networkbased collaboration spaces corporate data within a broader environment that is difficult to protect.Infrared Security’s General Security Awareness course takes the participant through an average work day, from entering the work place to answering emails at home, and describes in detail the wide array of security risks employees face on a daily basis.

This course will provide participants with the tools necessary to recognize common workplace security risks including but not limited to network sniffing, social engineering, phishing, and data theft. In addition, the course will summarize several key security controls that can be used to mitigate some of the most prevalent attacks found in the modern workplace. Employees everywhere are using business networks to connect, collaborate, and access company data. Businesses, eager to increase productivity, have embraced the growing integration of network communications.

Employees are encouraged to take advantage of technology such as wireless devices and public hotspots. Now more than ever, employees are becoming less dependent on their central office space in order to complete their work. Meetings are done remotely, documents are signed electronically, and emails can be answered from pretty much anywhere. Although this may provide benefits to both employees and employers, network-based collaboration introduces introduces corporate data into a vast environment that is diverse and difficult to protect.