This week we have focused on the people part of the security puzzle. As we know, people are the weakest link and the easiest point of access. But beating this point into your employees will not help them be better at computer and network security, and just make them feel hopeless and badgered.
Getting employee buy-in requires a little bit of strategy mixed in with a lot of fun.
On Monday we discussed the effect that living in a code yellow world has on creating security fatigue. Peter Herzog, in his blog Dark Matters expanded on this theme recently, giving examples of how teaching your employees how to stay secure in an insecure world may be counter-intuitive to the way we usually accomplish this.
Here are his recommendations:
Hewlett Packard is offering Security Users Awareness Training that offers to teach your employees how to “become a human firewall.” The web site includes a training library, support materials, and an FAQ page. There is also an 21 day free trial offer. This is clearly targeted at their larger enterprise customers, and pricing is based on number of students and the ...
One of the early steps a small business needs to undertake is the creation of a cybersecurity policy. This is not a trivial undertaking, and taking a look at the information below will undoubtedly make this project look daunting to the average small business owner. A good solution would be to find a cybersecurity professional with experience in policy creation and ...
Information technology certification has always been a daunting proposition. The books and study materials are expensive, and classroom training is expensive, and the exams themselves are not cheap either. Couple these costs with the time it takes to study, prepared, and test, time that can’t be billed to a client, and therefore hits your bottom line.
Finally, some good news for cybersecurity professionals, and those that would like to be: Cybrary ...
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