Chapter 7

Running Your Security Awareness Program

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Getting the logistics in order

Bullet Securing approvals for your program materials

Bullet Collecting Day 0 measurements

Bullet Showcasing your progress with well-designed reports

Bullet Assessing your program

Bullet Planning each subsequent cycle

Bullet Factoring in recent news and incidents

Planning a security awareness program is pretty difficult; however, running the program is where things get real.

When you run your program, you will discover that any planning was insufficient, incomplete, idealistic, and more. Even if your planning was mostly correct, you will learn some humbling lessons when you run the program. What you thought would work, doesn’t. Promises are not kept. Incidents happen. Funding can be lost. Deliverables are late. You need to ...

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