Understanding Data Protection Over the past few months the topic of “data breaches” has become commonplace on the news with companies such as Home Depot, Target and Sony being victims of data breaches by unknown groups of hackers. It is based on these activities that the company has decided to institute greater levels of data protection and security. These practices will involve knowing how to safeguard your computer from unauthorised access, what methods hackers normally utilise in order to get into computer systems and how internet browsing can actually lead to a computer terminal being compromised. Through the training that will be implemented, it is expected that employees of the company will be better equipped to deal with potential threats to data breaches and respond accordingly. Understanding who is breaking into our Systems The term “hacker” has been connected by popular culture to mean someone who infiltrates into secure systems for the purpose of sowing chaos and mayhem for their own purposes. They have been described as individuals who steal credit card numbers, create computer viruses, attempt identity theft and all other manner of illegal behaviour. What must be taken into consideration is the fact that the term “cracker” is more eponymous to the descriptions attached to the hacker culture rather than what popular culture dubs hackers to be. “Crackers”, as they are aptly named, are a sub-culture within the hacker culture that use their skills to achieve criminal gain either through subverting secure online systems or by stealing user information for identity theft. It is based on this that it can be seen that constant vigilance is necessary in order to prevent individuals such as these from accessing our systems since this is the only way that we can safeguard the data of our company and clients. The task can actually be resolved rather easily, first 2 department managers will attend the module sessions with half of the data input clerks on Monday till Tuesday while the second batch of two department managers will attend the Wednesday till Thursday class. For the subsequent weeks of training, the batches will be divided into 4 equal parts and each will be assigned a training day on an interval basis. For instance, on Monday it will be the first batch of data clerks, on Tuesday it will be two managers, on Wednesday it will be the second batch of data clerks and so on and so forth. Each batch of either the managers or the workers will complete their training schedules on the assigned interval basis with a “leap day” being included due to the training suite not being available on Thursday or Friday on week 5. This interval training, wherein there is a switch between the data clerks and the managers, helps to ensure that at least half of the group has received all of the training for a module at any given time instead of all of the group having only some of the training. It is anticipated that through the given scheduling, an adequate method can be devised which should help in resolving all of the training issues that have been identified thus far. Evaluating the Impact of the Training Schedule When going over the training schedule of the various workers and managers, it can be stated that this will have a