Southern New Hampshire University
IT 552- Human Factors in Security
Final Project- Security Awareness Program
Security Awareness Program
Final
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Introduction
Successful business rely on good business strategy which include good employees empowering
the company, all firm are looking for the performance of their employees to perform an amazing
job. The leaders of the company should be outstanding leaders to lead their business through the
surrounding challenges to reach their strategic goal. Also, a healthy organization culture is
crucial to maintain the collaboration of the employees, to make them feel that the organization
care about them and in trade they become loyal to the company.
Another factor to have a successful business is to be ready for the changes in the business
environment, especially the technological ones, as part of the readiness you need to have your
employees ready too. This require the company to keep their staff updated about the surrounding
changes, have then engaged in the social culture of the company and provide them with training
to keep their skills updated.
The fast going development in the surrounding environment in our life in general and on
our business in particular makes it a must for us to keep up with the life and business challenges.
Therefore, providing our employees with continuous training and keeping them aware
with the our regulations and roles, which we need to keep it update according to the changes in
the business environment, we need to craft a perfect security awareness program to ensure the
success of leading the company to glorious success.
Employing advanced technologies to protect organization premises and data is crucial,
but it is not enough when it comes to security best practices, the human factor in organization is
vital too, delivering a suitable security training to the employees of the organization is crucial,
they should be aware of their vital role in protecting the organization premises and data, which
plays a vital role in the total security of the organization (Brodie, 2008).
Final Project- Security Awareness Program 3
Purpose
Each year, companies invest in adopting the latest advanced technologies to secure their
systems, the investment includes advanced technologies of defense and detection systems which
are crucial ingredients to prepare an adequate defense in depth strategy.
Also, attackers create new tactics, strategies, and methods to overcome or beat those
technologies. At the same time, researchers traced back the majority of the security breaches to
human errors. The actual worries of all firms are distributed almost equally between internal
threats and external attacks. Managing and securing the access to the data sources and the
network would successfully eliminate or mitigate intruders’ attacks and the possibility of data
leakage.
The internal risk comes from unintentional mistakes through an uninformed employee or
intentional through malicious activities.
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