Periodic Awareness Tip #5 - Training w Training

REPEATING 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.

VIDEO

This is a longer video, which probably makes it inappropriate to use in the corporation in its entirety. You can't have all staff spend about 25 minutes on this. The CFO might hang you. You also can't have your audience look at this during a training. Their attention will be right out the door. What you can do is have your audience watch it before they come to the training, or on the bus/airplain if you have them bussed or flown in, etc. Or you can provide it as a "further reading" for those that are more interested.

By the way, this video shows how data protection authorities (in this case the UK Information Commissioners Office) can be a partner in delivering material to support your organisation.

 

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.