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Author: Asad Mukhtar Malik

Indeed, as a requirement of ISO 27001 (SMS) certification, UAEU is already conducting

security awareness sessions on a regular basis. Also, given the exponential increase in

the number of malware, 230,000 new samples daily in March 2018 according to Cybint

News, the Department of Information Technology (DoIT) at UAE University is taking

serious steps towards security awareness on the internal front, i.e. targeting its users

(Faculty, Staff, and Students).

These steps include email broadcast, posters and training sessions, which lead to better

security for IT infrastructure. Major topics covered in regular security awareness train-

ing sessions are Password Protection, Tailgating, Secure Use of the Internet, Secure Use

of Email, and Read, Understand and Adhere to UAEU InfoSec Policies.

DoIT also ensure major IT policies and procedures of are available online at (https://

www.uaeu.ac.ae/en/about/policies/)

. Below, we have a few examples of security aware-

ness content which we normally communicate to users.

July 2018

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