The Human Layer
The Human Layer
Improving your human layer security doesn’t just prevent costly incidents and data loss. It helps build customer & employee trust, protect brand reputation and advance your organization’s goals.
Criteria Contributing to an Effective Security Awareness and Training Program
In addition to ensuring that employees can dedicate sufficient time to training, a holistic, human-centric security awareness strategy includes:
- Regular communication with organization leaders, as well as rank-and-file employees, about your organization’s security initiatives and their impact
- Formal and informal conversations and feedback from employees on how security culture can be improved
- An engaged leadership team who champions security culture and emphasizes the importance of employees in protecting the organization and preventing data loss
- Adoption of best practices and processes that continuously improve your organization’s security posture and minimize risk
- Metrics that measure progress and ensure the program is successful and sustainable
Making the leap from awareness to behavior change starts with the understanding of your organizational goals. Questions you should ask include:
- What behaviors do you want to change?
- What drives and motivates those behaviors?
- What will change those behaviors fundamentally?
A transformational security culture goes beyond preventing employees from clicking on the wrong link. It’s a culture where security is embedded in everything your organization does and security best practices become second nature.
Boost Your Human Layer Security
Creating security awareness and culture gives your organization a strategic advantage. Improving your human layer security doesn’t just prevent costly incidents and data loss. It helps build customer and employee trust, protect brand reputation and advance your organization’s goals.
Boosting human layer security is also about improving resiliency — and giving your organization an edge in today’s competitive landscape.
The Human Layer
Criteria Contributing to an Effective Security Awareness and Training Program