10/18/2022
💡Creating a Cybersecurity Culture
👉 Although cybersecurity is a complex issue, too often organizations focus only on the technical solutions needed to safeguard the business. In reality, all your departments and employees are involved in protecting your company’s valuable and sensitive data, not just IT. Fortunately, organizations are beginning to realize this, with 88 percent of Boards of Directors now viewing cybersecurity as a business risk, not just a technology risk.
👉 Building trust between the cybersecurity team and non-IT employees and managers is crucial for safeguarding your business, but it’s also a mountain to climb. Despite the growing awareness of increasing cybersecurity threats, 85 percent of organizations hold the CIO, CISO or their equivalent as the top person accountable for cybersecurity. A rebalancing needs to occur in order to build an organization-wide culture that promotes awareness of cyber threats.
An organizational cyber security culture depends not solely on the work of one group but instead on the contributions of all personnel. By delegating security personnel to focus on security basics, employees to engage in interactive security awareness training, and executives to provide a consistent pro-security tone, you can create a holistic cyber security culture in which everyone has a stake
