Preventing Identity Theft in Your Business

CHAPTER 16THE PEOPLE FRONT: SOCIALIZING NEWCOMERS TO THE HONEST COMPANY CULTURE

In Chapter 15, the team designed a job preview document that emphasized honesty and integrity and the company’s requirement for information security. In this chapter, the team uses the job preview document together with incremental information for a Security Orientation Program that will reinforce what applicants learn in first contacts and to further introduce new employees to your company’s security standards.

STANDARD 10. THE SECURITY ORIENTATION PROGRAM

Goals: Create measurable actions to promote honesty and security in the workplace and create an agenda for a two-hour Security Orientation Program.

Specific Objectives: Elaborate on the information in the job preview document for use in an orientation program to socialize new employees to your company’s desired culture and its emphasis on the protection of business, customer, and employee identities. Include in this exercise as many current employees as possible: after developing the program, administer it to other employees for feedback and potential modifications.

Orientation

Socialization to an organization begins with the first contact between an interested individual and a company representative. This first contact may be made formally through the company’s recruiter or by another company stakeholder, such as an employee, contractor, or supplier. If made through the company recruiter, the first contact would introduce the potential job ...