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Importance of User Education In My Organization

Information security plays an important role in ensuring the safety of vital information in an organization. It is always one of the major department in an organization that handles threats or attacks that can compromise sensitive data of employees, customers and other players. Creating awareness and training programs are a daunting task. It is frustrating and thankless job, but it is important to protect the personnel and the organization from unwanted attention for a success of the organization.

It is important that the personnel and other resources understand the importance of securely handling information as it might affect the reputation of the organization and could compromise the privacy and might not meet the compliance, which can lead to legal implications. It is required by law that certain specific training and awareness needs to be provided to personnel while handling sensitive information.

Information security plays an important role in my organization and there are weekly seminars and training programs to provide understanding of policies that is in place. Some of the major reasons are as follows:

Regulatory Requirements Compliance:

It should address all applicable regulations and laws applicable to the organization. Support the activities your organization takes to mitigate risk and ensure security and privacy based upon the results of a baseline assessment, and support your company's policies.

Customer Trust and Satisfaction:

Respect for customer security and privacy is one of the major issues faced by my organization. In recent times there has been lots of security breaches that has been happening and we have strict policies in place to ensure their privacy. Thus, training of employees to handle information is done on a periodic basis.

Compliance with Published Policies:

Organizations need to educate personnel about their information security and privacy roles and responsibilities, especially in support of published policies, standards, and procedures.

Due Diligence:

In general, due diligence is providing demonstrated assurance that management is ensuring adequate protection of corporate assets, such as information, and compliance with legal and contractual obligations. This is a powerful motivator for implementing a training and awareness program.

Accountability:

To achieve accountability, the information security and privacy training and awareness program must be well organized, support business goals, and clearly supported by executive leaders to ensure participation.

It may be noted that these are few of the reasons why our organization does training and social awareness to ensure the smooth working and to meet the regulation and federal laws as well as to ensure the protection of personal data of the organization and its valued employee.

" What are the other factors you would consider for educating your employee about security in your organization".

References:

Herold, R. (2010). Information System Security.