Question

How can a security professional cultivate a culture of security awareness, collaboration, and buy-in among management, staff, clients, and stakeholders? Present several examples, including rationale. 

Answer 1

The security professionals are the ones who take care of the security of the system as well as the organization as a whole.

As security is a major concern in the current state, hence promoting the security has been a major step taken in any organization.

There are certain steps which are taken by the security professional to cultivate the culture of security awareness, collaboration, as well as buy-in in the management, staff, client or the stakeholders, are as follows:

1) Educating the staff about the cyber threats that the organization faced

2) Raising the awareness of the sensitivity of the data on the system

3) Ensuring the procedure in a proper, correct, and sequential manner

4) Provide the information as to how to avoid certain breach at the user side and also how to avoid the phishing email as well as other scam tactics

5) Reducing the number of breaches and mentioning the same in the document for future references.

6) Keeping the defensive practices up to date

Example: When a new employee is on-boarded to the company then the security awareness training is given to the user and also asked to use the password for authentication. Also been asked to provide a complex password for not being easily hacked.