Automated Security Awareness Briefing System (A-SABS)

The A-SABS is currently under development as a do-it-yourself program for developing computer-based briefings and training. When available, it will enable anyone with basic computer skills to develop automated security awareness briefings on any subject that is covered by the Employees' Guide to Security Responsibilities or in any other online material. The security awareness briefing is in the form of a quiz on material that respondents have read either in the Security Guide or elsewhere on an intranet or on the Internet. If you wish to give a briefing using information that is not already in the Security Guide, it may be added easily to the Guide.

A-SABS is like a computer-based training program except that it will have no substantive content. The developer of the briefing adds the content by providing links to a web site, such as the Security Guide, or to any other location where information can be viewed. The developer of the briefing also inputs questions designed to test what students have learned by reading the specified material. These functions do not require any knowledge of programming or html.

Although developed specifically to enable automated security awareness briefings using the Employees' Guide to Security Responsibilities, A-SABS will deliver automated briefing or training on any subject matter to which students can link via intranet or Internet. To facilitate this broader use, the name of the program will be customizable. A user will be able, for example, to change the program name to Policy and Procedures Update Briefing System.

You will be able to determine whether the student should link to the substantive information before starting to answer the quiz questions, before each question, after each question, and/or after all questions. The program supports true-false, multiple choice, fill-in-the-blanks, or short answer questions. The program can be set to provide feedback to the student after each answer or only after answering all the questions.

A-SABS can also be used simply to deliver an automated quiz on information presented in an oral briefing or in any mandatory reading. 

A-SABS will grade the student's responses and print out a Certificate of Completion for each student who obtains a satisfactory score. It will also provide you with a list of those who have passed and failed the test, as well as reports on such things as the relative difficulty of each question. The goal is to have different versions of the program so that it can be used in either a web-based environment or a client-server environment.

A-SABS is currently under development. When completed, it will be available at no cost to both U.S. Government offices and defense contractors. Contractors may use it only for a legitimate U.S. Government purpose, such as a security program to protect classified information. The program comes with the Defense Security Service seal on the opening screen. Government users may customize it by putting their own seal on the opening screen.

Interested persons should contact Dick Heuer at the Defense Personnel Security Research Center (PERSEREC), phone (831) 657-3008, e-mail HeuerRJ@osd.pentagon.mil.

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