How security education program help organization to improve information security throughout the organization?

A security education program is designed such way that which helps company employee to increase his/her awareness related with security concerns to reduce the number of security breaches that occur through a lack of employee security awareness. While establishing software units or business units CIOs can implement almost all external security mechanism like firewall, access control policies, encryption software and remote access related security mechanisms like SSH. But one of the major threats to information security could actually come from uninformed company employee (employee who is not aware or knowledge regarding security concerns). The uninformed employee can do harm to your network by visiting websites infected with malware, responding to phishing e-mails, storing their login information in an unsecured location, or even giving out sensitive information over the phone when exposed to social engineering.

First of all high level managers needs to change their view regarding information security because information security is not just related to IT section it involves all organization. They have to allocate some budget for security education program. In such kind of program they have to involve their current as well as prospective clients because clients also access company servers (information) for their business purpose. They should institute companywide security awareness training that include online as well as classroom training sessions, periodic exams (certification ) related with security awareness and build security awareness portal inside company which provide helpful hints via email, videos. These methods can help ensure employees as well as clients have a solid understanding of company security policy, procedure and best practices. The programs like security drills and exercises (simulation) help (prepare) organization and their clients to act efficiently and effectively to mitigate (how to act quickly) security attacks like denial of service attacks.

Information security education program improve the organization’s profitability by preventing disasters that may be caused by information breaches, reducing both the direct and indirect costs involved in investigation, data loss, recovering and securing compromised data and systems and cost involved breaching laws and regulations.