The importance of a Cyber Security Culture

When it comes to cyber security, there can be a tendency to focus solely on the technical aspects. Quite often, the needs and engagement of staff when implementing cyber security measures are overlooked. This can result in cyber security measures not being as effective as they could be, or worse than that even failing to protect the company. If the new measures make it hard for someone to do their job, or aren’t practical, people will find workarounds and not engage fully with the process. Because people are proven to be the weakest link in the cybersecurity chain, it is imperative to introduce a ‘cyber security culture’ that will support cyber security solutions.

Make people integral to your cyber security

The National Cyber Security Centre advises to ‘Put people at the heart of security. If your cyber security measures aren’t working for people, then your security measures aren’t working.’

A good cyber security culture can be implemented using effective project management. It should then become an ongoing behaviour for an organisation. It also needs to be a management decision to introduce a cyber security culture, with the board of directors leading by example.

What you can achieve

An effective cyber security culture will: Empower people; Get company-wide buy in for the need of cyber security; Structure training and education around cyber security.

How to implement a cyber security culture

Torsion is an automated data access solution that makes it easy to implement a cyber security culture. It empowers staff to engage in security decisions for their own information, files and permissions – most importantly, without distracting or slowing them down. It does this by integrating into existing collaboration systems. Most business users won’t even know they’re using it. It makes is easy for people to do their job and be part of a cyber security culture at the same time.

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