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• Designing a good security awareness program

  Badly designed security awareness programs can damage the relationship between the user population and the security team instead of educating people about security according to Gartner research director Andrew Walls.

• In Pictures: 7 commonly overlooked ways to tighten cybersecurity

  It's OK to be paranoid about every last detail when it comes to security.

• Put down the pink stickies to improve your career

  Consider the perfect workday: The morning starts by beating the alarm clock and bouncing out of bed refreshed and ready. Breakfast hit the spot and traffic was light, ensuring the morning trip to the office couldn't have been better.

• Awareness on the cheap

  You don't have to spend a lot of money on some information security initiatives. Take <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/article/2504968/cyberwarfare/security-awareness-can-be-the-most-cost-effective-security-measure.html">security awareness</a>, for example. You can get huge returns with small investments.

Whitepapers about security awareness

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  Human Factor Report 2017

  The headline stories of the threat landscape in 2016 were of the explosive growth of ransomware, the massive email campaigns that distributed it to organisations of all sizes, and the exponential increase in email fraud attacks that have cost businesses billions in theft, disruption and reputational damage. Criminals are now targeting individuals, not companies or infrastructure. See key findings from our Human Factor Report.