Just in time for Cybersecurity Awareness Month, SMU is changing how we do cybersecurity awareness training. Last year, we launched a unique program focused on cybersecurity habits. Participants opting-in learned how to master cybersecurity habits and built a custom-tailored plan to make security feel easy. The responses from individuals completing the course were overwhelmingly positive.
Based on the award-winning book Well Aware: Master the Nine Cybersecurity Habits to Protect Your Future, the Cybersecurity Wellness Program focuses on improving cybersecurity by concentrating on changing a user’s behavior towards the nine cybersecurity habits: Literacy, Skepticism, Vigilance, Secrecy, Culture, Diligence, Community, Mirroring, and Deception. Faculty and staff will have the opportunity to take the new course and opt-in to a monthly security awareness microlearning series instead of doing annual training. Also, as part of the curriculum, users will be provided a cybersecurity personality assessment for free.
This new option will appear in your Vector Solutions Training notifications starting this week. The Cybersecurity Wellness Program is less than an hour. It is a great way to help our employees succeed in the mission to keep our organizations secure by finding and improving their unique strengths.
Remember, Security Starts with You!
