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Making Security Awareness “Active” not “Passive”

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What is the best way to learn? By experiencing the learning, of course. How can you bring the element of “experience” into an online training course? The answer is by creating “elements of interaction”

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Elements of interaction

What are the benefits of introducing elements of interaction? Let us look at a few points.

Think, make decisions:

Interactive courses PAUSE at critical junctures and ask the learner to take decisions. This makes the learner think, which is an ...

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Taking security awareness to the employees

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Part 3 of building a successful security awareness program

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In my previous post we examined the importance of having security awareness success metrics in place before starting the security awareness campaign in order to measure whether the awareness campaign is successful or not. In this post we will move forward and evaluate the various channels through which security awareness can be delivered. We will consider screen savers, interactive videos, emails/ ...

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Have your security awareness success metrics in place

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Part 2 of Building a successful information security awareness program

Hello,

In my previous post we defined the importance of “security competence” as an important goal in the “Security awareness” campaign. Now that we have established this, let us define the metrics that will help you to measure the success of your efforts.

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Metrics to measure success: For security awareness and security competence

Note: The metrics are based on the HIMIS (Human Impact Management ...

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21
MAR
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Ask yourself – What are the security skills that your workforce must have?

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Part 1 of Building a successful information security awareness program

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The first question to ask yourself when starting an information security awareness program is – What are the information security skills that my workforce must have? By asking this question you are going beyond awareness and focusing on competence. By focusing on competence you are looking at the actual information security practices that the employees must use ...

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MAR
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