How Culture Makes Us Safer

How Culture Makes Us Safer

As published in the September/October 2019 edition of InfoSecurity Professional Magazine


By Wesley Simpson, COO


There’s an untapped resource hiding in security departments that many of us may consider an intangible or even undefinable asset. When strengthened, it can have a drastic effect on an organization’s security and contribute to its overall value stream. I’m talking about building a strong culture within your cybersecurity team.


There are some very tangible practices you can deploy within your team that can have a huge impact on engagement and satisfaction and make your business more secure at the same time.


One way to do this might be to create a monthly newsletter with some key stats about the number of vulnerabilities discovered, phishing attacks blocked, systems installed or whatever your key metrics are. How many of us actually catalog these achiev ements throughout the year? Would your teams’ confidence and pride grow at all if they saw the cumulative results of their efforts showcased across the company?


And what about extending this to the rest of your organization? Create a leaderboard for all of those correctly-identified phishing emails that your users send you. A competition with monthly or even quarterly winners and associated prizes can help increase user engagement and underscore the importance of everyone within your organization being responsible for cybersecurity— not just your securi ..

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