Building an Information Security Awareness Program

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Companies invest millions of dollars each year in the latest security products, from firewalls to access-card systems, but they fail to invest in their most valuable resources in securing their environments—more specifically, their employees. All too often, security-awareness training is a once-a-year event involving dated and unengaging material that is largely ignored. The result is that employees lack understanding of modern-day attacks and their ramifications. This knowledge gap presents endless opportunities for attackers. In Building a Security Awareness Program, Bill Gardner and Valerie Thomas have detailed the steps for building an entire security-awareness program from scratch. The book also serves as a guidebook for those ...