Announcing Winner of Logo Design Competition for
Global Security Week 2006

Wellington, New Zealand, 24^th March 2006: Global Security Week is pleased to announce Robert Potts of Billings, Montana, USA as the winner of this year’s competition to design the new logo for Global Security Week 2006. This year’s competition, which was open to entrants globally, was to design a logo to reflect the “Identity Theft” theme selected for Global Security Week 2006. Robert’s logo is shown here.

Identify theft is one of the biggest criminal growth areas and impacts people in all walks of life. While the judging panel were impressed by the quality of all the entrants submitted, Robert’s design was selected for best reflecting the concept of identity theft in an outstanding logo.

Robert wins a copy of Rebecca Herold’s highly acclaimed book “Managing an information security and privacy awareness and training program”. Robert’s design will be used on the Global Security Week website and other promotional materials for Global Security Week 2006.

About Global Security Week

Global Security Week is a global security awareness initiative in the week leading up to September 11^th every year. The idea is simply to coordinate and encourage a wide variety of security-related awareness activities worldwide in that week, taking advantage of the obvious focus on security by the world's media. This is a public awareness initiative, not a commercial or political venture. Its long-term aim is to become the focal point for security awareness activities in years to come.

The theme for this year’s Global Security Week is “identity theft”. During the week September 4^th to 10^th 2006, a number of events, workshops and awareness raising activities will take place worldwide to educate, inform and better prepare people to tackle the growing problem of identity theft.

Against a backdrop of global terrorism and organised crime, security in general, and information security in particular, has become a vitally-important sociological and business issue.  Commercial and governmental organisations are investing heavily in technical security controls but the security problems caused by people remain largely unaddressed. 

Whilst responsible businesses and individuals employ a wide range of security measures, the global Internet community suffers as a result of those irresponsible businesses and home users who remain largely unaware of security.  Hackers and spammers frequently take control of insecure Internet-connected systems, for example, to use as platforms for their attacks. Raising the general level of security awareness is the only feasible means of addressing this issue.

JOURNALISTS, EDITORS and WEBMASTERS: please visit the Global Security Week campaign website logo download page for freely downloadable high resolution images or email the organizers via for more information.

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