Security Awareness Alchemy - Is your organization Swiss Cheese or Hard Candy?
Saturday, March 14th 2009 @ 2:00 PM (not yet rated)
My latest analogy for security awareness, just posted on http://www.twitter.com/streetsec...
Security Awareness Alchemy: Security awareness training enables you to "Turn Swiss Cheese into Hard Candy!" #SecurityAnalogies
The idea behind the analogy is that organizations whose employees do not have guidelines for safe information handling in their jobs are like "Swiss Cheese" - very susceptible to being penetrated to the core by exploiting trust and poor human risk decisions without much technology.
On the other hand, when you can educate people on consistent security practices, recognizing suspicious situations and escalating exceptions to high-confidence situations, you can "harden" the workflows throughout the organization. This makes the organization more like "Hard Candy", and more difficult to penetrate, not to mention being more productive and producing higher quality outputs.
What does your organization resemble most?
...Hard Candy or Swiss Cheese?
(FYI - in Twitter, the # is used as a way of tagging keywords or concepts, making it easier to search in search.twitter.com)
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