Chapter 3
Applying the Science Behind Human Behavior and Risk Management
IN THIS CHAPTER
Establishing common knowledge
Seeing what safety science does right
Borrowing from accounting practices
Knowing the ABCs of awareness
Applying group psychology to your awareness efforts
Understanding how risk management works
When you create a security awareness program, or any awareness program, you’re attempting to influence group behavior throughout an organization. The success of your program depends on the reliability of the science and the theories you base your assumptions on.
As I say throughout this book, perfection and universal applicability are myths of the security profession; they don’t exist. I have found, however, that the sciences described in this chapter work more consistently than other flawed but commonly held ideas, such as those that can cause the difficulties I cover in ...
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