Security Policy and Agile Awareness

Security Policy and Agile Awareness Programs

This chapter is intended to help security professionals educate the employees of an enterprise. So much time is spent building countermeasures and securing the perimeter that end user security is often forgotten. As IT evolves and the boundaries of IT change with such advances as cloud, SAAS, and other shared infrastructures, it is important to educate employees on the best practices of security. This is especially the case to protect applications that are out of our physical hands. In this chapter, we will learn how to:

·         Build security awareness in an organization

·         Use the Ebbinghaus effect to your advantage in building security policy awareness

·         Build an agenda for security awareness such as which different policies we need to have

·         Use recognition awards and certifications to help educate employees in an organization

·         Use Agile memory retention tricks to help increase retention