Building a Cybersecurity Culture in Organizations

This book offers a practice-oriented guidetodeveloping an effective cybersecurity culturein organizations. It provides a psychosocial perspective on common cyberthreats affecting organizations,and presentspractical solutions for leveraging employees' attitudes and behavioursin order to improvesecurity. Cybersecurity, as well as the solutionsusedto achieve it, has largely been associated with technologies. In contrast, this bookargues that cybersecurity begins withimproving the connectionsbetween people and digital technologies. By presenting a comprehensive analysis of the current cybersecurity landscape, the author discusses, based on literature andherpersonal experience, human weaknesses in relation to security and the advantages ofpursuinga holistic approach to cybersecurity,and suggests how to develop cybersecurity culture in practice. Organizations canimprove their cyber resilience by adequately training their staff.Accordingly, the book also describes a set oftraining methods and tools. Further, ongoing education programmes and effective communication within organizationsare considered, showing that they can become keydrivers forsuccessful cybersecurity awareness initiatives. When properly trained and actively involved, human beings can become thetrue firstline of defenceforevery organization.