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Published on January 25, 2010 by Karen Letain in Planning
A relatively easy way to start ensuring that your employees have a fundamental base of security awareness knowledge is to embed it in the orientation and new hire process. Having the new hire go through a security awareness training program that is linked to corporate policy knowledge ensures that the employee understands not only the policy itself but the risks and consequences of not adhering to that policy. Security awareness training during the orientation stage also makes the new employee more likely to recognize and detect potential breaches. Mike Rothman provides some guidance to CSO's on how to incorporate security awareness into orientation training in his post http://tinyurl.com/y93vdrd.
The challenge of course is ensuring that the HR department is in sync with the IT department or with the organization's CSO to ensure that this type of training gets included, the delivery method that is most effective and how to reinforce the behavior once initially learned. Does your organization include security awareness in its new hire training program? Is it effective?
Published on November 18, 2009 by Karen Letain in News
According to a recent CSO online survey, "just under ten percent of respondent enterprises said their social media policy was fully implemented and communicated in 2008. That jumped to 34 percent in 2009, with another third responding that they had either created or implemented a policy for social media use." The take away, according to Jack Phillips, IANS co-founder and CEO, is that social media is front and center now in organizations and the discussion is taking place not only among the security team, but within marketing, sales, human resources and even executives. Phillips believes this is a great opportunity to develop security policy at the beginning of the social media phenomenon. You can read the full article at #mce_temp_url#
Published on May 29, 2009 by Karen Letain in News
The business world is rapidly changing. The way we conduct business will continue to evolve. The younger workforce graduating will be accustomed to working on a contractual and evolving basis without having the regular work hours the past generation was used to or the loyalty to a company that past generations had.
Outsourcing and contract workers will become the norm as businesses adjust to the growing global demands of its clients and as new and changing skill sets are demanded and required to address their challenges.
These changes to our workforce mean an increased challenge to security awareness managers. Managers will need to be sure that this new and ever changing set of workers will be able to keep secure the intellectual property of the company. Security awareness training will not only need to become part of an organization’s orientation training practices but will become an essential requirement of those courses. Stringent adherence to corporate policies and testing on the knowledge of those policies will become increasingly more important for security managers.
