Although articles on cybersecurity often focus on best practices, Chris Willis, Director of Content for eLearning Brothers, takes a different tack on the well-worn subject. In her article in Today’s Cybersecurity Leader/Security Magazine, Willis looks at four of the barriers that stand in the way between cybersecurity educators and employees.
Willis identifies these four challenges and how to overcome them:
- HR representatives, instead of IT professionals who may be more up to date in terms of current issues, doing the training. Willis recommends consulting with a third party educator.
- C-suite arguments against the cost of training can be overcome by presenting a business case to executives, writes Willis, who provides some key facts to use as data points.
- Shortage of time: Willis advises companies to think about how much time a cyberattack would waste, and then balance that against the time spent training. She also advises companies to consider other options for the time crunched, such as micro credentialing.
- Willis advises leaning into the idea of community good and the effects of a cyberattack on the team in order to install a company cybersecurity culture. “When coworkers fail to practice good cyber health, they put everyone around them at risk,” writes Willis. “Understanding how everything is tied together in this way can help evolve the company culture and make cybersecurity training something everyone values enough to follow through on.”
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