By Karen Renaud Dec. 7, 2020 1:00 pm ET Companies often turn to a powerful emotion to get employees to be vigilant about cybersecurity. They scare them.
But fear not. Although scaring employees may not be an effective way to keep them vigilant, there are other tools that do work. First, let’s dig deeper into why fear doesn’t work. Many of the 400 workers in a study indicated they don't feel it is necessary to induce fear for the sake of company cybersecurity.It’s not okay to exaggerate the threat even if it means people will take actionToo many of these kinds of messagesIt is okay to exaggerate the threat if it means people will take actionWhen asked to choose only one response to the use of cybersecurity fear appeals:Empowering 2Source: Marc Dupuis and Karen Renaud, Ethics and Information Technology, Oct.
Share Your ThoughtsWhat messages about cybersecurity in the workplace would move you to be more vigilant? Join the conversation below. For example, it is common for password policies to instruct employees to choose strong passwords, not write them down and not reuse them anywhere else. But, given that most people have tens if not dozens of passwords, this rule is impossible to follow—so it is likely that employees will end up in a state of long-term anxiety or simply give up on following the rules altogether.
Not only does everybody get less stressful support, but they get the message that cybersecurity isn’t a solo sport but a team effort.
Half my inbox is fake phishing from our asshole IT guy
They are using more tricky methods, and so employees needs to be more careful. Covid19 increase usage of internet and work from home effected too.
It is time to take every country in the pot and STOP every single cybercrimer once for good. Can we do that? Why not?
Fear ... - anxiety - 'unable to think clearly about threats' or, any other threats.
Now do Covid...
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TLDR you should whip them
The voices in my head tell me I’m delusional, but I don’t know if I can trust them...
thanks for this news