Название: Security Awareness For Dummies
Автор: Ira Winkler CISSP, Tristan Morris
Издательство: For Dummies
Год: 2022
Страниц: 241
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 10.7 MB

Make security a priority on your team.

Every organization needs a strong security program. One recent study estimated that a hacker attack occurs somewhere every 37 seconds. Since security programs are only as effective as a team’s willingness to follow their rules and protocols, it’s increasingly necessary to have not just a widely accessible gold standard of security, but also a practical plan for rolling it out and getting others on board with following it. Security Awareness For Dummies gives you the blueprint for implementing this sort of holistic and hyper-secure program in your organization.

Written by one of the world’s most influential security professionals—and an Information Systems Security Association Hall of Famer—this pragmatic and easy-to-follow book provides a framework for creating new and highly effective awareness programs from scratch, as well as steps to take to improve on existing ones. It also covers how to measure and evaluate the success of your program and highlight its value to management.

Phishing attacks are common enough these days that many people are already familiar with the term. A working definition is “an email message that intends to trick a user into taking an action that is against the user’s interests.” A phishing awareness program would ideally train people to properly determine how to handle incoming emails in a way that reduces the likelihood of loss. For example, if a message asks for the disclosure of information, the ideal situation is that a user knows what information they can disclose and to whom while also determining whether the sender is valid.

Customize and create your own program
Make employees aware of the importance of security
Develop metrics for success
Follow industry-specific sample programs

Cyberattacks aren’t going away anytime soon: get this smart, friendly guide on how to get a workgroup on board with their role in security and save your organization big money in the long run.