29 Mar Security Awareness Training: Road Signs With Radar Systems For Employees
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Sausalito, Calif. – Mar. 29, 2024
Verdict reports that Cybersecurity training programs deployed in organizations are not effectively preparing employees for modern-day threats, according to Neil Thacker, EMEA and LATAM CISO for security software company Netskope.
Annual cybersecurity and compliance training programs are now a lucrative business across industries. According to Cybersecurity Ventures, the security awareness training market was worth $5.6 billion USD in 2023 and will surpass $10 billion by 2027.
Thacker, who has over 20 years of experience in the information security industry and is co-founder and board member of the Security Advisor Alliance, claims that organizations need to add more human-centric prevention to their training.
Thacker used the analogy of road signs to explain his point: most of the time, drivers do not acknowledge traditional road signs with much attention. However, road signs with radar systems that tell drivers how fast they are going are proven to be more effective at slowing people down and keeping to the speed limit.
“That is what we need in cybersecurity; we need to show an employee, for instance, when they are about to do something that is a risk to the organization or a risk to them,” Thacker said.
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