How to Get Employees to Care About Security
Want to a security awareness program that sticks? Make it fun and personal and offer free lunch.
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RSA CONFERENCE 2021 If you re a security leader looking to improve your organization s defensive posture, ask your human resources chief to have coffee. It worked for Steve Luczynski.
Steve Luczynski, currently the lead for the COVID Task Force at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, told the story of how a coffee talk led to markedly improved security awareness when he was a new CISO working for a previous employer a company he refers to as well-established but with just OK security. There was still plenty of work to do.
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May 20, 2021
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SecurityEditor) • May 19, 2021 Steve Luczynski, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency; Valerie Utsey, T-Rex Solutions LLC How can the security and HR organizations partner to foster a better, enterprisewide culture of security? This is what Steve Luczynski and Valerie Utsey did in previous roles, and they share insights from their presentation on the topic at RSA Conference 2021.
Why culture?
What motivates employees to embrace security. Luczynski leads the COVID Task Force at CISA and oversees support to federal and state-level vaccine production, manufacturing and distribution efforts. Prior to that, he was the CISO for T-Rex Solutions. He spent 25 years in the U.S. Air Force and during his final assignment as the deputy director of cyber plans and operations in the Office of the Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon, he worked closely wi