The importance of user technology security education within organizations

Discuss the importance of user technology security education within organizations. What topics should be included in security education and training?

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Students are required to post one original response to the discussion questions each week, as well as a response to one classmate. Original responses should not be a word for word rehashing of what is stated in the readings, but rather an integration of the concepts and additional insights, either from real world experience or additional sources. It should be a 250 word response to the question . Your primary posting may end with a tag-line or a related question of your own. Your secondary posting is a response to one classmate's post. Each answer/response should be supported with research. Responses to classmates should not be "I agree” or "I like the way you stated that.” These responses should again be insightful, offering an opinion or facts based on your research and experiences. The response to one classmate should be a minimum of 125 words. See APA criteria for citing resources. You must provide a minimum of a reference, in APA format, in your original response.
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Now a days, Irrespective size of the organizations, it is highly important for them to focus over the Security awareness Training Program within the enterprise levels. Through this security awareness and user technology security education in the organizations, the management and the employees can clearly get understood the importance of the IT governance and also in the recognition of the security issues in prior, coming up with controlling solutions and respond accordingly.

Most of the organizations were spending a lot and investing huge over the security education program towards the employees to make them to learn how to protect their data with I the system and to be aware of cybercrimes, hackers across the web.

In each company it has become necessary to conduct trainings for the employees as the part of the security strategy for the reducing the exposure to the data integrity attacks and other probable threats. As threats and attacks were emerging more and become common, on boarding the security education and awareness across the organizations can reduce of chance of exposing oi the threats in all possible ways.

Educating the users in terms of security awareness will deceases of the chances to become the victims of the intrusion attempts and thus depending up on the above reasons, it can be concluded that security education and awareness is really important among the employees and users of the organizations.

Physical security, Password security, Phishing, Social Engineering and Malware were considered as the five major topics to be includes in the Security education and awareness training programs

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