Jun 6, 2017
This week, we invited Ms. Jessy Irwin (@jessysaurusrex) on to discuss the issues Small and medium businesses and startups have with getting good training, training that is effective and what can be done to address these issues.
We also go through several ideas for training subjects that should be addressed by training, and what maybe would be addressed by policy.
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Show Notes:
I don’t trust articles written with a survey created by a company that is touting their new education track at the bottom of the article. -- brbr
https://twitter.com/jessysaurusrex/status/859123589123121152
“So sick of the tired narrative that sec awareness is just about phishing when there are ~10 basic skills we need to be educating people on”
What are the ~10 things?
First off, most corporate security training misses the incentive mark by a mile. If training were refocused in a way that showed the incentives to improving personal safety, we might get somewhere. Teaching people how to take care of themselves first works-- those habits carry over into their work life, not usually the other way around.
“The report goes onto say that security awareness professionals with more technical backgrounds are more keen to recognizing behaviors that might bring risk, however, at times communications training is critical given that human interaction soft skills make changing risky employee behavior. They know what behaviors are the most effective in managing those risks. Often however, the challenge is that these same individuals often lack the skills or training to effectively communicate those risks and engage employees in a manner that effectively changes behavior.” summed up our entire industry in this paragraph --brbr
https://securingthehuman.sans.org/resources/security-awareness-report-2017
^^^^ saw this on Twitter yesterday -brbr
Key takeaways:
The study recommends the following for addressing communications:
You writing a book?
I've been working on a book about security that's focused on education and communication. We do such a horrible job at this-- we don't do very much that helps the average person or our non-technical, non-expert colleagues have a chance at being successful online. Our terms are too technical, our framing is unbelievably negative and toxic, and the lack of empathy for the people at the other end of the computer is absolutely astounding. It is entirely fixable, but we all have to stop contradicting one another and really start working together. :)
You make it sound so bleak and self-destructive :|
I would like to hope that we can get better.
Oh yea, the echo chamber, “who has the right answer?” no one, we all just have pieces...
Yes! And sometimes the right answer changes very, very quickly! It's less about the silver bullet answer and more about what we’re defending from and hoping to accomplish.
Are SMBs the issue?
Are they more insecure than bigger companies?
Or do bigger companies get more media coverage?
Are bigger companies any better at training employees?
Or are they better at ‘checking’ the box?
If we take the statement ‘paid for security training sucks’ as a given, what do we do about it?
What trainings should we be giving?
And what training should actually be policy driven? (make it a requirement to follow)
Clean desk
Password manager
Coding practices
Acceptable use
Device encyption
2FA/MFA
What training do infosec people need? How important are the soft skills to help with communicating?