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Industry View: Security Training With Style

Perimeter eSecurity VP Jason Miceli offers some tips on how to give employees a true understanding of security

By Jason Miceli

Shared disks spread viruses.

What damage can a virus do?

There are many ways to employ humor throughout your program. Use wacky analogies and provide crazy test questions and answers. Add well known one-liners related to your industry or quotes from around the office. Include funny photos or cartoons, rather than using standard clipart. Find some YouTube clips that poke fun at the material and add those links where appropriate. Here's a great tip - if you're having lots of fun creating the courses, then your employees will have fun taking them!

The Water Cooler Test
According to the Bersin & Associates study, companies are considering the use of more sophisticated techniques to increase the quality of their learning programs. If you use these strategies and tools, you should be able to accomplish three important goals while establishing a security awareness training program: implement an LMS framework that will provide ongoing reinforcement of the learning process, help employees understand the relevance of the program and its content and keep people interested as they dive into the detailed coursework. Your objective is to get employees to a point where they look forward to the next course and test. What better way to help boost office morale than to turn a corporate requirement on a potentially dry topic into an engaging system that will result in competent, security-conscious employees - chatting around the water cooler about how they work for a really cool company!

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