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Security Awareness Training

Security awareness training is important for any organization to (1) minimize risks and prevent data breaches, attacks, and loss of sensitive information, (2) educate employees on security best practices so they can strengthen security measures and identify phishing attempts or suspicious activities, and (3) protect the organization's reputation and save both time and money by reducing security incidents stemming from human error.

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Security Awareness Training

Security awareness training is important for any organization to (1) minimize risks and prevent data breaches, attacks, and loss of sensitive information, (2) educate employees on security best practices so they can strengthen security measures and identify phishing attempts or suspicious activities, and (3) protect the organization's reputation and save both time and money by reducing security incidents stemming from human error.

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SECURITY AWARENESS

TRAINING
ELLEN MAE S. GUANZON BSCS3A
WHAT IS SECURITY AWARENESS

• Security awareness has long been a goal of organizations that strive to provide
a safe and secure environment for their employees, customers, and those who
want to defend precious assets. This chapter describes the importance of
security awareness with examples, and discusses the focus groups and the
surveys that are utilized for better communication. The practice of security
awareness operates best when a reasonable plan is put together with policies
and procedures that support a comprehensive team concept.
SECURITY AWARENESS TRAINING

• Security awareness and training are important parts of any information security
program. In essence, the training and awareness program serve to facilitate and
improve the security compliance process and the overall security posture of the
organization. A primary goal of security training and awareness is to change
user behavior. Security awareness training go hand in hand with your policies
and procedures and strengthen your organization’s security program by
demonstrating to employees that management supports the program enough to
provide training.
WHY IS IT IMPORTANT AND HOW IS IT
PREVENTS RISKS

• Security awareness training helps to minimize risk thus preventing the loss of
PII, IP, money or brand reputation. An effective awareness training program
addresses the cybersecurity mistakes that employees may make when using
email, the web and in the physical world such as tailgaiting or improper
document disposal.
BENEFITS OF HAVING A SECURITY
AWARENESS TRAINING

• It prevent breaches and attacks


• Increases Security Measures
• Assures Educated Staff to Start Defiance
• Saves Organizational Reputation or To give your customers confidence
• Saves Precious Time & Money
• Gives You Peace of Mind
IT PREVENT BREACHES AND ATTACKS

• According to studies and records worldwide, most of breaches occur because of


negligence by employees. These are all small mistakes, but cause huge losses for an
entire company. If sources are to be believed, 70% breaches, data loss, and data theft
happen because of the laxity by employees. There is a specially designed training which
teaches employees common but important strategical scams. For example, getting loads
of emails is a common thing, but differentiating between an informative email and a
phishing email is important. There are cases where employees unintentionally and
accidentally open the attachment of phishing emails This is where training comes in.
INCREASES SECURITY MEASURES

• Security Awareness training always suggests supervising, monitoring, and


tracking any sort of suspicious actions. For example, it is always great to use
strong passwords, creating alerts for unique and weird communication which
can be the code word, and flagging any sort of suspicious emails.
ASSURES EDUCATED STAFF TO START
DEFIANCE

• It is important that organizations start training their staff so that in any crisis
they can stand together as a team. Any organization is of the people, for the
people, and by the people. Therefore, the company laws must be data
protection-friendly and the roles of various divisions are equally divided to
prevent cybercrimes.
SAVES ORGANIZATIONAL REPUTATION OR
TO GIVE YOUR CUSTOMERS CONFIDENCE

• A business that takes measures to improve cyber security will be better able to
generate consumer trust. And a trusted business is one that customers stay loyal
to. That can only be a good thing. there are a few industries like healthcare,
banking, and real estate which are easily trapped, and social engineers often
create confusion for the targeted customers. Clearly, customers pay attention to
security credentials. Thus, the right training can protect the company’s
reputation. When you introduce security awareness training, your customers
see you as more responsible.
SAVES PRECIOUS TIME & MONEY

• Companies that have not trained their employees often face data theft and
data loss due to carelessness. Data recovery or saving other consequences
requires lots of money and time. It also tampers with the brand image of the
company for a certain time, which can affect the target audience and their
thought process around the brand.
GIVES YOU PEACE OF MIND

• It’s well-documented that happy people are productive people. So, it’s worth
remembering that security awareness training doesn’t just keep people safe at
work. It keeps them safe in their personal life, too. Security awareness
training assures that there should be a revised and better security policy in
each organization. Hence, availing a certified security awareness training
means that your employees are adequately educated now, and you can avail
the best sleep at night with complete peace of mind.

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