The security industry tends to view the average employee one of two ways: as the weakest link in the security chain or as part of a human firewall. But humans are more complex than these two paradigms suggests.
Author Archive for Aimee Laycock
Although relatively new to Information Security, joining in the industry in 2016, Aimee is an enthusiastic and engaged member of the community. She has been working with CLTRe since its conception and enjoys speaking on the importance of measuring security culture, its influences on improving risk management practices, and sharing security culture success stories.
An evidence-based approach is the key to security culture success
Want to know how you can document a decrease in risky behaviors of up to 16.7% or a 17-point increase in individuals’ sense of responsibility towards security?
Learn how security culture metrics can be used to indicate the effectiveness of security culture strategy in your organization, and improve it!
Security Culture Report 2018 – Measure to Improve
Today, CLTRe published its second annual security culture report. The Security Culture Report 2018 – Measure to Improve explores how the security cultures of over 20,000 employees, speaking 7 languages, compare. As well as providing the first ever global industry benchmarks for Bank & Finance, ICT, Retail & Wholesale Trade, and Real Estate, the report examines how security culture has…
Building a security culture management platform – a brief history
Changing culture isn’t easy. It takes time and requires sustained efforts. Established in 2015, CLTRe was created to answer the question, how do you measure security culture? – a question that Kai Roer (the creator of the SCF) often got asked whenever he was engaged in conversations on how to build security culture and the importance of metrics. Together with the pooled knowledge…