Promoting
Awareness
And Use of the Guide
New technology can put information at your
employees' fingertips, but it cannot make them use it. One goal of your security awareness
program should be to promote awareness and use of the Guide. It needs to be promoted
repeatedly with information on how to access it and what can be found there.
Easy access to the Guide is the first step.
Your personnel should not have to remember instructions on where to find it in their
computer. It should be on the their desktop or on a security home page so that all
personnel remember where it is and are able to open the Guide with no more than two mouse
clicks. See Installing the Guide.
Available means of promotion
are discussed below. After each promotional activity, measure its success
by asking your webmaster to use his or her website tracking program to
measure how many of your personnel actually went to view the Guide and how
much time they spent with the Guide.
Oral Briefings: Availability
of the Guide as a source of additional information should be discussed as a part of all
security and threat awareness briefings. Describe what is in the Guide. Require that
employees at least look at the Quizzes, which are intended to provide a summary of
principal points in the program. You may also use the Automated
Security Awareness Briefing Systems (A-SABS) to test employees on what
they remember from the briefing.
Automated Security
Briefings: Mandatory security or threat awareness updates can be automated by
combining the Guide with the Automated
Security Awareness Briefing Systems (A-SABS). The Guide would then
serve as a database in which briefees or trainees look up information to obtain answers to
an automated set of questions. In addition to meeting briefing update requirements, this
would cause employees to become familiar with what is in the Guide and how
to use it, which is itself a
worthwhile goal.
E-Mail: Some security
offices have a capability for sending simultaneous e-mail messages to
everyone on the network. Security awareness e-mail messages could be sent
our periodically with some highlight message from the Guide and a link to
the Guide to obtain further information.
Online Advertising: Because
the Guide is available online, you can use online advertising with a link to
the Guide. The effectiveness of this advertising can be measured with web tracking
software that counts the number of hits on the site prompted by the advertising. There are
two approaches to the advertising
- Commercials (or infomercials) could
occasionally appear automatically on the screen when a user logs on to the network where
the Guide is installed. We have prepared several examples of such advertising, and these
can be found under Online Commercials.
- Smaller banner ads such as are commonly found
on the Internet may be placed on some other frequently accessed site, such as a site that
reports on employee activities or a human resources site. The ad could have a teaser
message and a link to the Guide.
Newsletters: Organizations
that have a security office or general employee newsletter should include parts of the
Guide as articles in the newsletter. Identify the Guide as a source of this and other
similar information and remind employees how to access it.
Training Courses:
Organizations with in-house training programs should talk about the Guide and use it in
any appropriate courses. In addition to security and counterintelligence courses, this
includes, for example, management courses that discuss how supervisors should handle
problem employees. This will require some coordination between the security office and
your training unit.
Contests: It is possible to
develop a quiz, puzzle, or treasure hunt based on the Guide, with prizes for those who do
the best or complete the task first.
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