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Making Security Awareness Training More Engaging and More Effective

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A scavenger hunt. A Jeopardy-like trivia game. A well-known guest speaker. A movie about espionage. Some good ideas for your institution’s party? Sure.

But they’re also possibilities in a security awareness training program, according to some experts in the field. “Most people think training has to be boring and dry,” says Rebecca Herold, an information security and privacy consultant, instructor and author. “It’s really only limited by your imagination.”

Among the ideas she’s used successfully in security training programs is bringing in a guest speaker with firsthand knowledge of a real-world, high-profile security breach. Another time, she showed “The Billion Dollar Bubble,” a commercial movie dramatizing one of the largest insider frauds ever at a financial institution in the U.S. “They could relate to how those computer systems were misused--it showed the power of the computer and programmers,” she says.

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