OK … so here it is … the secret recipe for success in security awareness training. It’s taken years and years of work in the classroom and online to figure it out, but I’m going to share this secret with you right now.
The secret recipe is VIPS – Valuable Information Presented Simply.
Two ingredients in this recipe:
- Give people valuable information that they can actually use, and show how its use could benefit them.
- Present it simply so that they don’t have to struggle to understand it.
Of course, this is much easier said than done. You’ll need to understand the different audiences that you’ll be teaching, and the different things that motivate them. And you’ll often have to take highly complex technical, regulatory and/or legal concepts and make then accessible to a wide range of students with different learning styles.
But, keep in mind VIPS at all time when you’re preparing your security awareness training and I guarantee that you’ll be a winner.
