Raising Employee Awareness

Building employee awareness begins with the new hire orientation process. Make sure this is included in your ISATP. On their first day, employees should understand what is and is not considered safe behavior. This initial exposure to company expectations might consist of requiring each person to sit through a short awareness presentation, followed by their reading and signing the acceptable use and password management policies.

Break training into three different content groups, based on whether the target audience was management, IT staff, or business users. This is fine for training, but the awareness message is the same for all employees, regardless of role. Organizations which are just now implementing an ISATP should follow-up with existing employees to ensure the awareness message is consistently distributed throughout the entire workforce.