Periodic Awareness Tip #1 - Means

INTRO

Raising awareness amongst your company's staff is key as the human factor is quite often cited as the weakest link in data protection and security "in the field". Raising awareness also is not a one-off thing. You have to keep hitting the same nail. Preferably though, you try out different angles every time again, as information overload and boredom settle in quite rapidly. So let me periodically and in no particular order share some awareness raising materials. Let's aim for once per week and we'll see where we can get.

Sidenote: as this week is the Asian Data Protection (Awareness) Week, there are a lot of materials to be found that are developped especially for the occasion. The same goes for the 28th January of each year, which has been proclaimed Data Protection Day. Those are moments to harvest new ideas and sow their fruits in your organisation for the rest of the year.

VIDEO

I like this video as it shows - in a fun way - that data can be protected with the means one has. In my experience a concern that a lot of staff members have: "but I don't have the means". That can be true to a certain extent, but one can already do a lot with the means at hand.

CALL TO ACTION

Please do comment on these posts: is this useful? what have you used in your organisation to engage the colleagues? how do you measure success? etc.