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DIUS has partnered with the TUC and Get Safe Online to launch a new toolkit to help improve workers’ Internet security awareness and skills.

While employers are improving their Internet security systems, their good work could be undermined if they fail to ensure that their staff’s skills are up-to-date. This could have a huge impact on employers, who may stand to lose valuable commercial or customer data, or lose money through damage or downtime due to attacks.

The toolkit brings together video interviews from industry experts, quizzes and reading lists, and offers a personalised prescription on Internet security issues that is tailored to an individual’s Internet usage.

Areas of advice include the four main threats to workers’ online security including;

    * Malicious software – viruses and other programs that attack your computer and company’s IT system;

    * Identity theft – criminals breaking your passwords in order to steal valuable personal and company data;

    * Your rights at work -the dos and don’ts of personal computer use at work and whether you are being monitored;

    * Your privacy online – tips for social networking users, whose personal and work life could be visible to more people they think.

Full report: http://www.dius.gov.uk/Press/internet_security_241108.html