Business organizations do and should have big worries about data security. The potential losses to business and reputation by a breach of data privacy can be significant enough to have to shut the doors for good.
But while data privacy and data security may weigh heavily on the minds of the organization’s leaders, employees usually fail to understand how essential data security is to their job as well. Employees will often think that there is a department or person that hangs those things or that there is software that protects them. However, educating and training employees on the importance of data security to everyone in the organization sets the organization on a path towards locking up any gaps in their data security network.
An important concept to focus on throughout employee training is that data security is the responsibility of everyone. While a department or individual may manage security, individual security obligations should be undertaken by everyone employed by the company. Not only does this make the security managers more accessible for the employees, but it also encourages the employees to release the importance of and to take pride in the organization’s data security.
Data security training shouldn’t be a one-time event but should be addressed at every training session from orientation to farewells. Building data security training into every training session will highlight the importance of it and continue to remind employees of their security obligations. This could also be a time to update employees on news in the data security field and updates that the organization has made to its data security network.
Employees also need to be made aware of the responses that the organization has planned for data security failures. For employees to know that there are plans and what the plans are, even just generally, executing them will be much less confusing and perhaps even more effective because the employees have been trained to handle the situations.
Contact DPOAdviser for training your employees about the risks in security breaches and data privacy.