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Develop a Security Awareness and Training Program That Empowers End Users

Turn end users into your organization’s secret security weapon.

  • The fast evolution of the cybersecurity landscape requires security training and awareness programs that are frequently updated and improved.
  • Security and awareness training programs often fail to engage end users. Lack of engagement can lead to low levels of knowledge retention.
  • Irrelevant or outdated training content does not properly prepare your end users to effectively defend the organization against security threats.

Our Advice

Critical Insight

  • One-time, annual training is no longer sufficient for creating an effective security awareness and training program.
  • By presenting security as a personal and individualized issue, you can make this new personal focus a driver for your organizational security awareness and training program.

Impact and Result

  • Create a training program that delivers smaller amounts of information on a more frequent basis to minimize effort, reduce end-user training fatigue, and improve content relevance.
  • Evaluate and improve your security awareness and training program continuously to keep its content up-to-date. Leverage end-user feedback to ensure content remains relevant to those who receive it.

Develop a Security Awareness and Training Program That Empowers End Users Research & Tools

Start here – read the Executive Brief

Read our concise Executive Brief to find out why you should develop a security awareness and training program that empowers end users, review Info-Tech’s methodology, and understand the four ways we can support you in completing this project.

About Info-Tech

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We produce unbiased and highly relevant research to help CIOs and IT leaders make strategic, timely, and well-informed decisions. We partner closely with IT teams to provide everything they need, from actionable tools to analyst guidance, ensuring they deliver measurable results for their organizations.

What Is a Blueprint?

A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your IT problems.

Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.

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Get the help you need in this 2-phase advisory process. You'll receive 4 touchpoints with our researchers, all included in your membership.

Guided Implementation 1: Develop your training program
  • Call 1: Build a development plan for your training program.
  • Call 2: Learn best practices for the execution of development initiatives.

Guided Implementation 2: Design an effective training delivery plan
  • Call 1: Identify possible delivery methods.
  • Call 2: Create a training schedule.

Authors

Filipe De Souza

Ian Mulholland

Contributors

  • Sky Sharma, CIO
  • Adrien de Beaupré, Certified Instructor and Penetration Tester, SANS Institute
  • Robert Hawk, Information Security Expert, xMatters, Inc.
  • Steven Woodward, CEO, Cloud Perspectives
  • Riddhi Patel, Information Security Analyst, National Life Group
  • Blair Panasiuk, Manager of IT Operations, Dynalife
  • Erich Salie, Information Security Officer
  • David Shipley, Director of Strategic Initiatives, University of New Brunswick
  • Paul Daley, Sr. Analyst for Security Management, Risk and Audit, Toronto District School Board
  • Glen Maxfield, IT Security Manager, Workers Compensation Board of Manitoba
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