Security Awareness Planning

Security Awareness Planning

One of the greatest challenges facing organizations in building a security awareness program is where to start, how do you plan, develop, deploy and maintain an effective awareness program? Here you will find various resources to help you plan and maintain an awareness program that is not only compliant, but engages your employees and focuses on reducing risk by changing their behaviors. These resources are developed by the community for the community. Please send any feedback on how to improve these resources to community@securingthehuman.org.

Security Awareness Roadmap

This Roadmap provides a single resource for you to map the maturity level of your awareness program is, determine where you want to take it, and detailed step-by-step instructions how to get there.

Awareness Program Planning Kit

This package provides the resources you need to plan, build and maintain a high-impact awareness program. Materials include policy templates, awareness surveys, compliance requirements, draft execution plan, and email templates. These materials are based on and follow the Security Awareness Roadmap.

2 Day Class on Building Awareness Programs

This two day class covers how to plan, build, deploy and maintain a high-impact security awareness program. The course covers everything from strategic planning and execution to budgeting, metrics and reporting. In addition, during the class you will develop your own customized awareness program and execution plan which you can use the day you get back to the office. You can attend this class at SANS events, take it online through OnDemand, or attend virtually through Simulcast. Learn more and sign up here.

Security Awareness Sticker Challenge

In June, 2012 SANS Securing The Human sponsored the first Security Awareness Sticker Challenge, challenging the community to come up with engaging and informative awareness stickers. Over forty ideas were submitted which you can download from below. You are welcome to use any of the ideas for your own awareness program. You can even apply many of these ideas to other items including mousepads, calendars, posters and many other training items.