What makes a security awareness program effective? Please describe at least 5 strategies for ensuring that a security awareness program is effective and provide an example of each of those strategies.

Security Awareness Program

            The security awareness program is an routine which is under the management by having an goal of training the people about the potential threats for the information in the organization. To avoid such situations, the organization may adopt the program to save the company from risk. To make the security awareness program effective, firstly we should come up with reading the behaviors of the people in the organization. Under getting clarity and identification on what we are trying to modify with the implementation of this awareness program, it gives the effective advantage. We have some strategies to get the effective result under this program (Chmura, 2017).

Establishing security policies is one of the strategies for effective awareness programs. It puts some rules in the company by governing them about safety. It addresses all the security concerns and practices of the business. To be effective under this program, a training plan should be implemented for both new and continual reinforcement. Being creative instead of scary will make your program much more effective. We should think about all the alternative ways under training, interacting and engaging. It helps in adopting secure habits that can be dealing with all the threats (Hanus & et al., 2016).

One of the most effective strategy under this awareness program was training the staff under having the security solutions by knowing them under recognizing the attacks that could happen and make them allow to take right decisions. Managing the security news sources which is a great tool. Under this, we should share the use of information about the firm or any other software that has been utilized by any staff member. We can compile on the newsletter which helps under keeping security without any interruption. By ensuring all the procedures to be followed correctly is the main strategy to be allowed in the company for an effective security awareness program. We should provide the information on the way to avoid all the phishing emails and all other scams. We should raise awareness of the confidential data on the systems to be secure (Peikari, & et al., 2019).

References

Chmura, J. (2017). Forming the Awareness of Employees in the Field of Information Security. Journal of Positive Management, 8(1), 78–85. https://doi.org/10.12775/JPM.2017.006

Hanus, B., & Wu, Y. “Andy.” (2016). Impact of Users’ Security Awareness on Desktop Security Behavior: A Protection Motivation Theory Perspective. Information Systems Management, 33(1), 2–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/10580530.2015.1117842

Peikari, H. R., & Banazdeh, B. (2019). The Relationship between Information Security Awareness and the Intention to Violate Information Security with the Mediating Role of Individual Norms and Self-control. Security & Social Order Strategic Studies, 7(4), 7–9. https://doi.org/10.22108/ssoss.2019.108446.1174