Security Awareness Training: An Approach

INFORMATION SECURITY AWARENESS PROGRAM

Security awareness training:
• Security awareness training is concerned about making the people aware about the threats
from the cyber-attacks and data breaching (Peltier and Thomas).
• The organization can train the employees regarding this.
• In this context, the organizations can make employee understand about the importance of
using anti-virus software. Apart from that the implementation of the firewall and VPN in the
system can be beneficial to prevent the external threats in the organizational network.

Significance of the security awareness program:
Every organizations need the security awareness program so that the data and information stored
in the organization can be safe (Caballero and Albert).
Apart from that the functionality of the organization can keep going in a proper way.
The prevention of the security threats also mitigates the chances of the physical damage of the
systems in the organization

Management’s role in the security development:
In order to enhance the security of the organization the organization can do certain things like
policy development and policy enforcement for the development of the security (Schroeder).
Selection of the right policy will ensure the cost saving for the organization.
Also it will increases the production of the organization.