Tutorial 3 Preview: Cyber Security Culture for Business Leaders
Why is the human factor so vital to cyber resilience? Discover why cyber criminals continue to successfully use social engineering techniques to compromise entire organisations and learn the importance of developing a cyber resilient culture and setting the tone at the top.
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Develop a deeper understanding of why the human factor is vital to cyber resilience strategies. Dive into the minds of cyber criminals and understand why social engineering techniques have succeeded for decades.
3.1. Cyber-resilient culture
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Mechanisms to cultivate a cyber-savvy workforce are required to inculcate a resilient behaviour and affect large-scale culture change. Building cybersecurity through frameworks, technology, and tools is different from building a cyber-resilient culture, which refers to cultivating resilient employee behaviour. An organisation that can defend, withstand, and survive potentially devastating cyber-attacks. It should be funded, have the attention of senior management, and empowered by stakeholders across the organisation.
3.2. The cyber-savvy workforce
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Long-term cultural shifts require senior business executives to role model expected attitudes, beliefs, and practices, a concept widely referred to as "tone-at-the-top" in risk management circles. To accelerate the cyber cultural transformation, the executive leadership team must categorically signal that cyber security is of prime importance to the enterprise's mission and is everyone’s responsibility.
3.3. The executive role in driving culture change