The Information Security Awareness Forum was founded by the UK chapter of the Information Systems Security Association in 2008. Its objective is to create a co-ordinated cross-industry / cross-institution approach for delivering security awareness messages to large corporations, small and medium enterprises, and individuals. Membership of the forum comprises industry bodies and professional organisations that have a specific interest in promoting security awareness.
The forum is not seeking to “reinvent the wheel”. There already exists a lot of awareness materials for individuals as well as organisations. However there has been a lack of co-ordination, resulting in overlaps and gaps too. The forum brings together interested parties to work together to remove some of the overlaps, and to partner with organisations to fill some of the gaps.
The group has no plans to develop awareness materials where they already exist, so with their permission, will use materials from organisations such as Get Safe Online which already engages in awareness campaigns as well as being a suitable repository for the target audiences to reference.
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