CHAPTER 5

Security Awareness and Employee Resilience

If someone were to ask me what the most important chapter in this book is, I would pick this one. Security awareness forms the very heart of a corporate security effort and will determine whether security policies, measures, and strategies will be effective or not.

You can have the most advanced security systems in the world, the most properly equipped security teams, or the highest level of physical security, but if there’s not a sufficient level of security awareness throughout every layer of your organization, the chances are that all those measures will eventually fail. Security, and especially counterintelligence, is a science that revolves around human nature, reactions, choices, and ...

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