Does your organization consider cybersecurity knowledge as a factor in hiring, training, and employee retention decisions?

Organizations that value cybersecurity knowledge in their workforce tend to build stronger security cultures and have employees who make better security decisions. By considering cybersecurity aptitude during hiring, you can ensure new team members have baseline security awareness. Including security in training programs and performance evaluations reinforces its importance and encourages continuous improvement in security practices. Evidence could include: job descriptions that list cybersecurity skills as requirements or preferences, training programs with cybersecurity components, performance evaluation templates that include security-related metrics, or HR policies that document how security knowledge is factored into hiring and retention decisions.