
Faculty, Staff, and Students, Oh My! Reducing Risk by Expanding Security Awareness to Everyone
Reducing human risk and building a collective mindset of cybersecurity as everyone's responsibility requires a security awareness and training program that intentionally veers from one-size-fits-all education and communications. Yet developing role-appropriate training for staff, faculty, or students takes planning, collaboration, and even a touch of creativity. Security and compliance professionals at UMass Boston and West Virginia University discuss and compare strategies from their security awareness training playbooks for different learner audiences. Discover what's working for them, important lessons learned, and adaptations they've made (and continue to make) to strengthen their institutions' security consciousness, build enduring security habits, and ultimately contribute to lowering their risk profiles.