Human Factors

Security Congress Abstract

Your Security Awareness Training has Bombed – Now What?

Speaker(s)

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  Charles Gaughf, CISSP, SSCP, CCSP

  Professional Content Lead
  (ISC)2

Co-Speaker(s)

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  Sandy Mills-Afford

  President & CEO
  AliveTek Inc.

Security Awareness training programs can and should have a positive impact on building a strong culture of security within your organization. But all too often the training bombs and becomes more of a check the box pain for the staff with little to no learning. Training can be an excellent tool to helping staff understand that security is everyone’s responsibility. But it needs to be done correctly to ensure complete understanding and commitment throughout the organization. In this session you hear how an expert in the learning development partnered with (ISC)2’s security team to develop an engaging and effective training. Listen to war stories of what didn’t work to avoid the same mistakes, share your challenges to identify potential solutions from industry colleagues, and identify adult learning tools that can make security awareness training engaging, fun and impactful.

 

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the need to engage the services of a learning professional to ensure that proven adult learning techniques are incorporated into your training program.
• Learn about leveraging learning theory and gamification to elevate their security awareness training.
• Identify matrix to help measure the success of your training program.