Building a Cybersecurity Awareness Program

Building a Cybersecurity Awareness Program

1h 22mIntermediate2024-01-03

Authors

Lauren Zink

Lauren Zink

Information Security Professional, Educator

Course details

By implementing a security awareness and culture program, you can turn people into assets—an extension of your security team—instead of possible easier targets for cybercriminals. A truly robust and mature security program makes educating employees a top priority in a company's overall multilayered approach. In this course, Lauren Zink shows how to develop and implement a successful, ongoing security awareness and culture program that's so much more than just one phishing simulation or an annual required training. True security awareness necessitates year-round, relevant, and tailored training and communications that create an overall cultural shift in behaviors you can measure. Through this course, discover how to sketch out your program plan, create a budget, leverage creative approaches for keeping your employees engaged, and assess the effectiveness of your program.

Skills covered

Security AwarenessProject LeadershipIncident ResponseProject ManagementCybersecurityOne-Off

Concepts

Introduction

  • Discover cybersecurity awareness
  • Defining security awareness - Going beyond the training to behavior and culture

Understanding the Current Security Awareness Foundation

  • Getting to know your collaborators and partners
  • Learning you company policies, standards, and guidelines
  • Gauging the baseline knowledge of your audience and their appetite for security as well as baselining the risks

Developing a Solid Awareness Plan

  • Developing a program plan and identifying resources needed
  • Program plan creation demonstration
  • Creating a budget

Implementing and Communicating the Security Awareness Program

  • Creating brand recognition for security
  • Introducing the program and communicating the why
  • Developing a training plan
  • Leveraging champions, ambassadors, and liaisons

Engaging Employees with Ongoing Awareness Initiatives

  • Getting creative to reach your audience
  • Communication is key to reaching your audience
  • Social engineering simulations for experiential training
  • Holding large-scale events

Measuring the Effectiveness of Your Security Awareness Program

  • Measuring impact and behavior change
  • Communicating the impact and building the team

Conclusion

  • Next steps - Maturing and adjusting the program over time
40,000 Toman