Do you think my current blog poll (right side of screen, scroll down a bit) is lame? I had a couple of my friends and information assurance friends tell me that my question this week is a no-brainer; that no one will take a poll that is obvious.
Well, if you read my blog occasionally you know that I am a strong believer that information security and privacy awareness and training is absolutely necessary for security and privacy efforts to be effective. But, I have also seen published statements from some otherwise very smart folks stating that awareness and training efforts are a waste of time, a waste of money, or that only technology alone can result in effective security since most folks will “never learn anyway.”
So that is why I posted the poll. I wanted to see if any of those folks who think awareness and training are worthless read my blog…it would motivate me to seek out and provide you with some demonstrable evidence that awareness and training *IS* of utmost importance. I also want to see how many of you believe that education is very important.
The results so far have been interesting, but I want more poll clicks! I feel like I’ve gone Trick-or-Treating and I’m coming home with an almost empty bag…like I must have just cut two holes into an old flowered sheet and used that as my costume.
Please click this week’s poll by Sunday, and I promise the poll I have for next week will be much more intriguing…I’m going to have more than two choices! And I know from some recent articles that the topic I will be polling on can be somewhat controversial. It’ll be like I have traded in my flowered-sheet ghost for my super-duper Elastigirl costume! 🙂
Tags: awareness and training, Information Security, IT compliance, policies and procedures, privacy, risk management, security poll