Developing User Security Training & Awareness Training Program

Developing User Security Training & Awareness Training Program

The training covers what an organization should do to design, develop, implement, and maintain a Cybersecurity training and awareness training for user as a part of the IT security program.  It includes awareness and training needs of all users of an organization’s IT, from employees to supervisors and functional managers, to executive-level managers.

The training is aimed at teaching

• How to create a training and awareness program development plan.
• Determine the priority levels of the current security topics.
• Select Security topics for training modules
• Assess potential training groups
• Perform a group risk analysis.
• Review audience groups and determine which topics need to be delivered to each group
• Identify the unique audience groups within your organization and the threats they face.
• Build a training program development plan.
• Identify Metrics for Program Success Measurement
• Select and prioritize security topics for training content.
• Select metrics for measuring program effectiveness.
• Execute some of the low-hanging fruit initiatives for collecting metrics: e.g. create a knowledge test, feedback survey, or gamification guide.
• Discuss potential delivery mechanisms for training, including the purchase and use of a vendor.
• If selecting a vendor, review vendor selection criteria and discuss potential vendor options.
• Build training modules.
• Create an ongoing training schedule.
• Define and document your end users’ responsibilities towards their security.

Deliverables:
At the end of the training/workshop the participants will be able to do the following:

1. Customized development plan for the program.
2. Tool for tracking metrics.
3. Customized knowledge quiz ready for distribution.
4. Customized feedback survey for training.
5. Gamification program outline.
6. Risk profile for each identified audience group.
7. Priority scores for all training topics.
8. List of relevant security topics for each identified audience group.
9. Vendor assessment tool and shortlist.
10. Customized security training presentations.
11. Training schedule.
12. Security job description template.
13. End-user training policy.

Training Audience:

The training is for Managers, CISO responsible for the development of Cybersecurity Training and awareness program for users

A Complete Toolkit for Creating a Cybersecurity Training and Awareness Program

An expanding remote workforce requires training efforts to evolve to include the unique security threats that face remote end users.

By presenting security as a personal and individualized issue, you can make this new personal focus a driver for your organizational security awareness and training program.

Cybersecurity Awareness Programs are a great way to help your company stay in compliance with the law and help the employees protect the organisation’s information. A good way to get started in doing this is to is to leverage our toolkit.

Use this toolkit to identify the initiatives that can grow your cybersecurity training and awareness program, then use it as a roadmap to develop, deliver and measure the progress of completion of the initiatives.

Content of the Training and Awareness Kit

The Cybersecurity Training and Awareness Kit contains the following aspects:

1. Security Awareness and Training Program development Kit
2. The Training Modules
3. Awareness Kit
4. Phishing Simulation Software

Security Awareness and Training Program development Kit

• A needs assessment tool
• End user Job description security addition template
• Security Training Program Manual
• Security awareness and training feedback template
• Security Training campaign development

The Training Modules

The Toolkit contains training materials to get you started on remote training and awareness.

Training Materials – Phishing

Training Materials – Incident Response

Training Materials – Cyber Attacks

Training Materials – Web Usage

Training Materials – Physical Computer Security

Training Materials – Passwords

Training Materials – Security for Remote workers

Training Materials – Social Engineering

Training Materials – Email Templates

Training Materials – Mobile device Security

Training Materials – Password Management

Awareness Tools

Security awareness program is a prevention measure that teaches people to act safely and securely on the internet.

Security awareness efforts are designed to change behaviour or reinforce good security practices. Awareness is not training.  The purpose of awareness presentations is simply to focus attention on security.  Awareness presentations are intended to allow individuals to recognize IT security concerns and respond accordingly. 

Awareness is not training.  The purpose of awareness presentations is simply to focus attention on security.  Awareness presentations are intended to allow individuals to recognize IT security concerns and respond accordingly.

Awareness programs are designed to make employees aware of what they should do in the event of an online phishing attack or cyberattack, as well as how to avoid becoming victims themselves.

This can be achieved by creating guidelines for employee behaviour both inside and outside the workplace via video presentations, demonstrations, webinars, seminars, emails etc. These guidelines may include:

- What types of links not open (including unknown email attachments) -What information does not share over social media - How to carry out their work with security measures in place when using computers at home – How to use different passwords for each site they visit. Etc.

Intellfence BV provides you with some of our latest Awareness tools you can use internally to reenforce learning. Some of the tools will have available are:

• Messages on awareness tools (e.g., pens, key fobs, post-it notes notepads, first aid kits, clean-up kits, diskettes with a message, bookmarks, Frisbees, clocks, “gotcha” cards)
• Posters, “do and don’t lists,” or checklists
• Screensavers and warning banners/messages
• Newsletters
• Desk-to-desk alerts (e.g., a hardcopy, bright-coloured, one-page bulletin – either one per desk or routed through an office – that is distributed through the organization’s mail system)
• Phishing e-mail messages
• Pop-up calendar with security contact information, monthly security tips, etc.

Phishing Simulation

Phishing simulation programs are a proven way to build awareness and security training. Employees who have been trained in phishing simulations are less likely to open a suspicious email or click on an unknown link because they are more aware. And if you are just starting out, this is one of the best ways to get everyone onboard quickly in Cybersecurity.

Organisations can make use of Phishing simulation package without the extra investment.  We provide organisations 12 months access of self-hosted Phishing Simulation packet free.

This packet is easy to host at AWS and enables each organisation to perform an effective phishing simulation of their staffs. This approach provides each company its own environment which they can shut down anytime they are done with their phishing simulation without fear of personal data breach.

Four Days Workshop of Developing Effective Cybersecurity Training and Awareness Program

Headline:
Cybersecurity is a growing concern for businesses of all sizes.

With the ever-changing landscape of cybersecurity, it is important to stay up to date on the latest trends and threats. Intellfence BV offers cybersecurity training that will help you understand what an organization should do to design, develop, implement and maintain a Cybersecurity Training and Awareness Program for users as part of their Information Security program. This includes awareness and training needs of all users from employees to supervisors and functional managers to executive level managers.

Desire:

If you are looking for ways to protect your company from cyberattacks or just want to learn more about how to design an effective cybersecurity training and awareness program, then this course is perfect for you!

With our step-by-step guide, you can build a cybersecurity training and awareness program in just days. It does not matter if you have 5 or 500 employees – we have something for everyone!

It covers everything from understanding risks in today’s world through hands-on exercises. You will also get access to our library of online content including video presentations, interactive quizzes, articles on best practices - all designed specifically with the busy professional in mind!   

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The Training/workshop Content.

Workshop Day 1

1.1 Create a program development plan.

1.2 Investigate and select metrics to measure program effectiveness.

1.3 Execute some of the low-hanging fruit initiatives for collecting metrics: e.g. create a knowledge test, feedback survey, or gamification guide.

Deliverables:

1.    Customized development plan for the program.

2.    Tool for tracking metrics.

3.    Customized knowledge quiz ready for distribution.

4.    Customized feedback survey for training.

5.    Gamification program outline.

Workshop Day 2

2.1 Identify the unique audience groups within your organization and the threats they face.

2.2 Determine the priority levels of the current security topics.

2.3 Review audience groups and determine which topics need to be delivered to each group.

Deliverables:

1.    Risk profile for each identified audience group.

2.    Priority scores for all training topics.

3.    List of relevant security topics for each identified audience group.

Workshop Day 3

3.1 Discuss potential delivery mechanisms for training, including the purchase and use of a vendor.

3.2 If selecting a vendor, review vendor selection criteria and discuss potential vendor options.

3.3 If creating content in-house, review and select available resources on the web.

Deliverables:

1.    Vendor assessment tool and shortlist.

2.    Customized security training presentations.

Workshop Day 4

4.1 Build training modules.

4.2 Create an ongoing training schedule.

4.3 Define and document your end users’ responsibilities towards their security.

Deliverables:

1.    Training schedule.

2.    Security job description template.

3.    End-user training policy.

Who should Attend:

The four-day training program is designed to help those responsible for designing, developing, implementing, and maintaining of a Cybersecurity awareness and training program.