AIKEN, S.C. - The Savannah River Site (SRS) liquid-waste contractor’s cybersecurity team has been recognized for excellence for the third consecutive year.
The National Cyber Security Alliance and the Department of Homeland Security named the Savannah River Remediation (SRR) team the champion for National Cyber Security Awareness Month, which is October.
The award honors SRR’s strong cybersecurity culture, including its role in a global online safety awareness campaign called “STOP.THINK.CONNECT."
That campaign reached out to SRR to form a partnership, allowing the company access to resources to educate its workforce and reduce cyber threats.
SRR launched a user awareness program for its workforce about three years ago, covering topics from safe holiday online shopping to use of digital assistants to help navigate the Internet. The team shares its creative cybersecurity approach with other sites across the DOE complex.
“This program is backed by decades of IT and cybersecurity experience, but it would not be anywhere near as successful without the strong support from our senior management, as well as the partnership we have with the SRR public affairs team for developing ideas and materials," SRR Cyber Security Manager Juli Joyner said. “The information and materials the program produces tackles a myriad of subjects in multiple imaginative and memorable ways so that anyone can understand the ideas and can put them to use both at work and at home."
The team also earned high marks for relating its cybersecurity industry perspective to students in Fort Gordon, Georgia.
Source: U.S. Dept. of Energy, Office of Environmental Management
