What would make cybersecurity training more enjoyable?

Security & GRCTraining & Certification

If it were presented in simpler language.19%

If it was more fun (i.e. gamification)60%

If it were broken into shorter courses17%

Nothing, it's boring no matter what!2%

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Fractional CIO in Services (non-Government)4 years ago

Option missing from the list: Make it relevant to their role, even if that means having several flavours for it.

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Director in Manufacturing4 years ago

Our company kept every failure secret. I know some breeches need to be confidential. Employees might take the training more seriously if you told them real examples that occurred in your company

It’s a judgement call but more open disclosure would show how serious the problem is

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no title4 years ago

This, a hundred times this. If we hide security breeches/incidents behind a cloak of secrecy, our user communities never now how bad it really is.

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