Build a Culture of Holistic Risk Awareness Throughout Your Workforce

Build a Culture of Holistic Risk Awareness Throughout Your Workforce

Employee training programs have changed little over the years, and mandatory compliance training modules aren’t widely renowned for their entertainment value. Your employees know this, which is why the annual email titled “URGENT: Mandatory security training” is only opened by a fraction of the workforce.


Security awareness is important year-round. But aside from training employees on how to spot phishing emails or recognize social engineering attempts, how can organizations train employees to be risk-aware at all times?


Here are several strategies for building a culture of security and risk awareness throughout your workforce in such a way that employees aren’t just looking for specific threat indicators, but are also thinking holistically about risk in their everyday work.


Develop Continual, Engaging Security Awareness Training Campaigns


Once-per-year general security training sessions to meet compliance requirements aren’t going to be enough to build a culture of security. Instead, consider presenting engaging content that covers typical threats like phishing, but also factors in how an employee’s behavior can affect the whole organization. Ongoing cybersecurity training tends to be a more effective means of developing risk awareness.


One effective approach to security awareness training is to treat it like brand marketing rather than mandatory compliance training. Approaching each awareness campaign as its own marketing campaign with a clear call to action and messaging around general principles or specific cyberattack methods can help focus the intended outcome.


This strategy for tackling cybersecurity awareness training can help your organization cover both existing and emerging cyberattack methods and train employees to evaluate potentially ..

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