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Security Culture: What Is It And How Can You Improve It To Protect Your Business?

Ckick Armor, Friday, May 5,2023

Security culture is the key to protecting your business from phishing and social engineering attacks. Without it, implementing successful training and having prepared employees is nearly impossible.

What is security culture?

KR: Back when I created the Security Culture Framework, that was one of the first questions we needed to tackle. And we looked to social science and specifically sociology, where culture is defined as the ideas and the customs and the social behaviors of a group.

Then what we did then was just to take that definition of culture and add security. So, the 'security culture' is the ideas, the customs, and social behavior of a group of people. And that means either the whole organization or part of the organization that influences the group's security.

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