CHAPTER 12: AND FINALLY...

If you are responsible for the security of your organisation’s information and IT systems, follow these five simple steps, to make sure members of your workforce know precisely what you expect of them:

  • Set the scene – Make sure everyone knows why security matters to the organisation, to its customers, and to their jobs. Make it clear it’s what the CEO wants them to do, and is what the CEO is doing him- or herself.
  • Train everyone – Explain clearly, and simply, what you want people to do, and why they should do it. Reinforce the message at team level, making sure that people are applying the training in their everyday work. Put security on the standing agenda for team meetings.
  • Design security in – Not just to your networks ...

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