Learning continuum

Awareness programs that set the stage for training by changing organizational attitudes to realize the importance of security and the adverse consequences of its failure; training that teaches people the skills that will enable them to perform their jobs more effectively; and education that is targeted for IT security professionals and focuses on developing the ability and vision to perform complex, multidisciplinary activities.
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A form of security teaching that is a prerequisite to training. The goal of awareness is to bring security into the forefront and make it a recognized entity for students/users. Awareness programs set the stage for training by changing organizational attitudes toward realization of the importance of security and the adverse consequences of its failure. [NIST SP 80018].
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Information collected to assist employees and their supervisors in assessing individual students’ subsequent onthejob performance, to provide trend data to assist trainers in improving both learning and teaching, and to be used in returnon investment statistics to enable responsible officials to allocate limited resources in a thoughtful, strategic manner among the spectrum of IT security awareness, security literacy, training, and education options for optimal results among the workforce as a whole.
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A discrete representation having the properties that define the data element to which it belongs. See also data element.
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A set of values representing a specific entity belonging to a particular entity type. A single value is also the instance of a data item. An occurrence of an entity class that can be uniquely described. In object-oriented programming, an instance can be an object, example, or representation of a class.
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