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Understanding security awareness training

Understanding security awareness training

From the course: Complete Guide to Cybersecurity: A Practical Approach

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Understanding security awareness training

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- [Instructor] Security education among all your employees, all your staff, and even third parties, goes a long way in securing information and your systems. There are three types of learning activities that you can use, whether for information security or for any other purpose. First one is education. The overall goal of education is of course, to help learners improve their understanding of ideas and their ability to relate them to their own experiences and then apply that learning in different useful ways. The other one is ad hoc training. Basically, this focuses on building proficiency in a specific set of skills or actions, including the sharpening perception and judgment that is needed in order for you to select and apply those skills, right? That type of a specific training can focus on low level skills and entire task or complex workflows consisting of many different tasks. And then the third type is security awareness training. These activities basically are created to…

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