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Is Your Company's Security Awareness a Turkey Shoot?


Learn How to Protect Your Organization from Today's Malicious E-Crime Threats; Viyya Offers FREE WISE Security e-Learning Course upon Request

ROSELAND, N.J. -- Thanksgiving is right around the corner. Will you be thankful that your organization is safe from e-crime? Or, will you be called away from family, dinner, and the football games to address the latest security breach?

CSO (Chief Security Officer) The person in charge of all staff members who are responsible for promulgating, enforcing and administering security policies for all systems within an enterprise or division.  magazine and Carnegie Mellon University's latest survey reported that a whopping 36 percent of respondents are still seeing an increase in e-crime. CIO CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations.


(Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization.
 Insight magazine reported that 47 percent of the largest enterprises they surveyed said they had experienced a security breach over the past 12 months. Plus, 75 percent of CIO Insight's respondents from large enterprises agreed that Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs and social networks will increase security risks over the next three years.

CSOs, CISOs, and ISOs deal with security initiatives across their organizations. With hacking, phishing, spoofing, denial-of-service, and other malicious attacks rapidly increasing to levels not previously seen, corporate information systems offer new opportunities for theft, fraud, and misrepresentation misrepresentation

In law, any false or misleading expression of fact, usually with the intent to deceive or defraud. It most commonly occurs in insurance and real-estate contracts. False advertising may also constitute misrepresentation.
. That equates to short- and long-term financial, brand, and corporate reputation damage, especially when 70 percent of all information security breaches stem from lack of employee knowledge of proper security procedures and protocols.

Viyya Technologies' WISE e-Learning Security Courseware helps address information security breaches to keep organizations safe and secure from today's electronic threats. This Web-based, security standards-based training program uses a variety of multi-media learning aids to educate employees on the threats today's companies face - combining text, voice, animation, simulation, interactive response sessions, and testing for improved learning and retention. WISE e-Learning Courseware increases information retention by 30 percent over traditional training methods, and self-paced also results in reduced training time and costs.

WISE courseware:

* Provides an easy-to-use, scalable solution for security training education needs

* Teaches security to employees: security awareness Security awareness is the knowledge and attitude members of an organization possess regarding the protection of the physical and, especially, information assets of that organization. , privacy awareness, security management, personnel security, and much more

* Allows employees to learn at their own pace

* Meets ISO (1) See ISO speed.

(2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI.
 177799 "Best Practices" Standards and is Scorm 1.21 and 2004 compliant

* Rigorously meets training requirements mandated by today's regulatory programs: HIPPA Hip´pa

n. 1. (Zool.) A genus of marine decapod crustaceans, which burrow rapidly in the sand by pushing themselves backward; - called also bait bug ltname>. See Illust. under Anomura.
, SOX, GLBA GLBA Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 (Financial Modernization Act of 1999)
GLBA Gay and Lesbian Business Association
GLBA Great Lakes Booksellers Association
GLBA Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve
, NERC NERC Natural Environment Research Council (UK)
NERC North American Electric Reliability Corporation (Princeton, New Jersey, USA)
NERC Northeast Recycling Council
NERC National Environment Research Council
, PIPEDA PIPEDA Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (Canada) , and others

For a limited time, Viyya is offering a free WISE e-Learning Course and online demonstrations to organizations interested in increasing and enhancing their security awareness. For more information, contact Joel Hudesman, Viyya Business Development, at 973-795-1310 or joel@viyya.com.

About Viyya Technologies

Viyya Technologies (Pink Sheets:VYON) is the developer and marketer of the world's most advanced, web-based information management application. The company's core technology manages disparate information from the Internet, corporate intranets, databases, newsgroups This is a list of newsgroups that are significant for their popularity or their position in Usenet history.

As of October 2002, there are about 100,000 Usenet newsgroups, of which approximately a fifth are active.
, email, and third-party feeds by enabling users to customize the way they collect, process, distribute and store data. VIYYA[TM] gives users the ability to retrieve filtered content from many sources, determine the relevancy of the information, and have the information processed into notifications, daily reminders, newspapers, or archived for future use. For additional company information, please visit www.viyya.com.

"Forward-looking statements" as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and  of 1995 may be included in this release. These statements relate to future events or financial performance; are based on current expectations/projections about Viyya and its industry; and may differ materially from actual future results or events. Such words as "expects", "believes", and "anticipates" are intended to identify these statements. Viyya disclaims any intention or obligation to revise any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise.
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