November 8th, 2018, By Jovi Umawing
Organizations know that training employees on cybersecurity and privacy are not only expensive but time-consuming. However, given that current threats are targeting businesses more than consumers, introducing and teaching cybersecurity and privacy best practices in the workplace has undoubtedly become an absolute must.
Creating a successful training program is a massive undertaking. It doesn’t just require one to grab “Cybersecurity 101” material from the Internet, stuff it in a PowerPoint presentation, and expect trainees to understand what’s at stake, let alone change unwanted behaviors. It’s more thoughtful and systematic than this.
Putting together a cybersecurity and privacy training program that is not only effective but sticks requires an incredible amount of time, effort, and thought in finding out employees’ learning needs, planning, creating goals, and identifying where they want to go. Without these, imparting knowledge on cybersecurity and privacy would be ineffective, not to mention costly.
We’re past asking the wrong questions (“Where do I start?”) at this point. But if you’re still weighing your options on whether your organization should do an awareness campaign instead of a full-blown training or education program, we’ll help make it easier for you. Although awareness, training, and education are used interchangeably or compounded together in this field, in reality, these three are entirely different at their core.
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