About Us

About the National Cyber Security Alliance

NCSA’s mission is to empower and support digital citizens to use the Internet^G securely and safely, protecting themselves and the cyber infrastructure.

NCSA, a 501 c (3) founded in 2001, is the pre-eminent public private partnership, working with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), corporate sponsors(Symantec, CISCO, Microsoft, SAIC, EMC, McAfee), and nonprofit collaborators to promote cyber security awareness for home users, small and medium size businesses, and primary and secondary education.

NSCA partners with DHS and the MS-ISAC as a primary driver of National Cyber Security Awareness Month, now in its sixth year. NCSAM (October) is a multi-faceted effort to disseminate security messages and information through grassroots, traditional and social media channels. In 2008, NCSA’s efforts alone (not including partner activities) reached an estimated 29,000,000 people through media and other activities.

Ultimately, NCSA measures its success to the degree by which cyber security has become second nature for all computer^G users. NCSA seeks to raise awareness of cyber security to the level of other cultural messaging that is universally good for citizens—healthy eating, exercise, and safe driving—by teaching skills and judgment to build a national understanding about appropriate online tools and behavior. NSCA’s public facing presence is its website www.staysafeonline.org.

Recent accomplishments:
• Release of the 2008 National Cyberethics, Cybersafety, Cybersecurity Baseline Study looking at the adoption of cyberethics, cybersafety
and cybersecurity in K-12 education in the United States, as well as teacher preparedness to address these issues in the classroom.
• Development of a volunteer program for computer security professionals to teach cyber security in schools.
• Collaboration with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on a series of local workshops on Securing the Perimeter: Public-Private Partnerships.

About Stay Safe Online
StaySafeOnline.org is the National Cyber Security Alliance’s Website. Content on the Website is developed in cooperation with many of our partners including government, industry, non-profit and education partners. Since our goal is increased education about and adoption of cyber security practices, all of the content found at StaySafeOnline.org may reproduced, if provided for free, to educate the public on good cyber security and safety practices.

We are interested in your feedback and comments. Email us at info@staysafeonline.org

The National Cyber Security Alliance would like to thank our partners.

Contact information:
Michael Kaiser
Executive Director

National Cyber Security Alliance
1101 Pennsylvania Ave, NW Suite 600
Washington, D.C. 20004

info@staysafeonline.org

Aimee Larsen Kirkpatrick
Communications and Outreach Director

National Cyber Security Alliance
1101 Pennsylvania Ave, NW Suite 600
Washington, D.C. 20004

info@staysafeonline.org

Maura Kinney

Program Coordinator

National Cyber Security Alliance
1101 Pennsylvania Ave, NW Suite 600
Washington, D.C. 20004

info@staysafeonline.org

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