Security News > 2022 > February > The four types of remote workers your security awareness program must address

It's important that your current security awareness efforts are appropriate for how your employees work today, not how they worked two years ago.

The strongest security cultures are those where each employee fully understands that they are on the front lines.

Think instead about how that concerned employee can quickly reach your information security team directly via a phone call and via chat.

An employee who finds it too hard to fill out your helpdesk form to open a ticket may be an employee who decides it's just not worth it.

From the employee's perspective, what exactly is a complex password? Why is it that a complex password does a better job protecting an information asset versus a non-complex password? Where can a non-technical employee check to see what the current Wi-Fi password is? Is there a difference between an administrative password and the password they use to join a device to their Wi-Fi network? How do they recognize the distinction between their Wi-Fi router and their cable modem? Issue your guidance but take the time and the care to explain.

Now is the right time to review your existing security awareness program to confirm it respects the new reality your remote employees are experiencing every day.

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