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• How It Works
• What You Get
• Why You Should Subscribe
• How It Works
• What You Get
• Why You Should Subscribe
What Is the Employee Security Connection?
A popular, high quality security awareness campaign for cleared industry and government employees delivered 4x per year through a ready-to-distribute digital employee newsletter. It reinforces cleared employee responsibilities under NISPOM and progressively drives a growing security awareness across your entire organization. It also creates a date-stamped PDF you can share as proof of your consistent, high quality security awareness program.
Campaign Rollout is Fast and Simple
No software or systems to deal with. You don’t even need to ask IT for technical support. You could be sending out your first quarterly campaign as early as today.
We Automatically Keep You On Schedule
After your first campaign we keep you enrolled in a quarterly cadence for the term you have selected (4, 6 or 8 issues). Like clockwork we’ll let you know it’s time to send out your Employee Security Connection at the start of each new quarter – January, April, July and October.
Dated PDF Records at Your Fingertips
The PDF of each quarterly issue is dated and easy to share with inspectors at a moment’s notice. You’re able to demonstrate consistent, high quality security awareness outreach in support of NISPOM compliance.
Tell Your Inspector a Clear and Impressive Story
• “We connect with employees 4x/year like clockwork.”
• “Our coverage of NISPOM relevant topics is comprehensive.”
• “We also teach employees about personal & family security.”
• “As business-sponsor, our SMO supports the security program.”
• “All of our employees are included, not just cleared personnel”
• “The positive feedback we get let’s us know it’s working.”
Distribution is Easy & Flexible
As soon as you receive it you can send your PDF newsletter by email, post it internally, or take parts of it to share through existing communication channels. We also include a short cover-email message you can edit or use as is.
We Do the Work
• Comprehensive and NISPOM relevant editorial planning
• Writing the headlines and articles
• Newsletter layout, images
• Space for your logo, w/easy to follow instructions
• ‘Cover-letter’ email included
• Optional ‘local update’ included
• No platform or IT support needed
• Dated PDFs for inspection
Simple, Budget-Friendly Pricing
Pricing for industry is based on the count of cleared employees in your program, making the low per-employee pricing easy to justify in support of protecting your contracts. For government, pricing is based on the count of employees covered in your program.
Include Uncleared Personnel – No Added Cost
Although the NISPOM only requires you to reach out to your cleared workforce, you know that it takes vigilance from everybody in your company to keep classified data and CUI protected. Pricing is based on your count of cleared employees but you are free to distribute the campaign to the uncleared employees at your location absolutely free.
What You Get Every Quarter
• An 8-Page Digital Newsletter as PDF
• ‘Cover-Letter’ Email to Use When You Distribute
• Optional ‘Local Update’ Page
• Dated PDF to Share With Inspectors
Compliance
Employee Security Connection helps security program owners keep workforce awareness active, inspection-ready, and easy to document — with a finished quarterly awareness campaign built around the responsibilities employees, contractors, and supporting personnel are expected to understand.
Use each issue to reinforce key security behaviors throughout the year, including classified information safeguarding where applicable, CUI handling, insider-threat awareness, reporting responsibilities, OPSEC, foreign travel and contact awareness, facility security, privacy and information protection, and day-to-day security judgment.
Requirements
Meet continuing awareness obligations reflected in federal and defense contractor requirements, including:
Industry
• 32 CFR Part 117 — NISPOM Rule
• 32 CFR 117.12 — Security Training and Briefings
• SEAD 3 — Reporting Requirements for Clearance Holders
• Executive Order 13526 / 32 CFR Part 2001 — Classified information safeguarding and continuing security education
• DoD Manual 5200.01 — Classified information handling and safeguarding
• DoDI 5200.48 / 32 CFR Part 2002 — Controlled Unclassified Information handling and safeguarding
Government
• NIST SP 800-53 AT-2 — Security and privacy literacy training and awareness for system users
• 32 CFR Part 2002 — Controlled Unclassified Information handling, safeguarding, marking, dissemination, and reporting awareness
• Executive Order 13526 / 32 CFR Part 2001 — Classified national security information safeguarding and continuing security education for personnel who work with classified information
• E32 CFR 2001.71 — Initial and refresher security education for personnel whose duties involve classified information
• Executive Order 13587 / National Insider Threat Policy — Insider-threat awareness and cultural reinforcement across federal programs and cleared populations
• DoD Manual 5200.01 and DoDI 5200.48, where applicable — Classified information and CUI safeguarding expectations in DoD-related environments
• Agency-specific security, privacy, records, CUI, OPSEC, insider-threat, and safeguarding policies — Local program requirements that rely on recurring workforce awareness and reinforcement
Show DCSA Your SMO is Engaged
The NISPOM requirement to demonstrate SMO engagement is meant to get business leaders to put their weight behind security vigilance.
• Name the SMO as business sponsor of your Employee Security Connection campaign
• Use the cover-letter email we provide to distribute your Employee Security Connection to the workforce directly from the Senior Management Official’s email
• SMO involvement sends a clear message to every employee that security vigilance is a business priority
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You’re People Will Actually Want to Read It
The Employee Security Connection doesn’t feel like extra work. The articles aren’t long and boring. The newsletter is easy to scan, and the articles are clear, practical, interesting and relatable.
We Take Care of Everything
No planning, searching, writing, design, formatting, or last minute scramble. It’s like having an assistant who takes responsibility for making sure your program is reliable, on schedule and consistently excellent.
We Make Inspection Easy
The content and communication strategy of the Employee Security Connection is impressive to inspectors. Each issue gives you a dated PDF record to easily produce at inspection time.
The Budget-Friendly Cost is Easy to Justify
Pricing for industry is tied to the count of cleared employees in your program, making it a no-brainer investment for facilities or enterprises of any size. Plus you can include the rest of your employees for free, expanding your security awareness outreach to everyone at no additional cost. Pricing for government is tied to the total number of employees covered, also with a low per-employee cost that’s easy to justify to procurement and auditors.
What’s On
Your Mind?
What do you want to see next?
The Employee Security Connection gives security program owners a finished employee security awareness campaign they can send to employees, retain for records, and show during inspection. Each campaign includes an 8-page digital newsletter, cover message, logo placement, and optional local update page — delivered ready to use during the first week of each new quarter.