Promoting online safety is one of the crucial parts of facilitating the security of an organization, including the information that it holds, the people that are employed in it, and the customers, whose demands the firm seeks to meet. Therefore, it is imperative to make sure that the members of the organization are aware of the challenges that the operations with Big Data in the environment of the global economy may trigger. In other words, the workshop is aimed at improving people’s information security competencies, including the software status quo.
Herein the creation of the workshop devoted to the concept of informational security lies. The goal thereof is helping people learn the basics of data management, within three months, as well as a significant increase in the information security rates within the company by at least 30%. The percentage of leaked data compared to the one observed in the past month will be used as the primary means of measuring success.
The workshop will include a set of short (5-10 minutes) daily lectures with slides and the subsequent completion of assignments aimed at improving the staff’s skills of using information (i.e., retrieving, processing, and transferring it in the fashion as efficient and expeditious as possible). It is assumed that a total of eight sessions half an hour each should be conducted so that the required information should be presented to the participants.
To enhance the staff’s enthusiasm and promote the idea of attending the workshop as significant, one may consider proving the usefulness of the workshop by stressing the positive effects thereof such as the career opportunities that new knowledge will provide to the staff members, the new skills that will help the employees deliver high-quality results and, thus, receive financial incentives and rewards, etc.
To make sure that the participants should be able to acquire the necessary skills, one will have to carry out regular assessments of the participants’ progress. Therefore, each session will start with a brief quiz on the topic of the previous lesson. More importantly, two assessments should be carried out during the workshop. The first one will be conducted before starting the first lecture so that the level of the staff’s competencies could be assessed. The second evaluation will take place after the final learning session and will serve as the premise for a comparative analysis of the staff’s skills (Lee & Chang, 2014). Thus, an all-embracive assessment of their progress can be conducted objectively.
It is expected that the workshop will help reduce the threat of information leakage in the company. Thus, the competitiveness rates thereof can be increased. Moreover, the enhanced security will prevent the instances of the staff’s data theft (Shiralizadeh, Hatamlou, & Masdari, 2015). In other words, not only the company’s data but also the staff’s personal information will be comparatively secure.
To get the message across to the participants of the workshop, one will have to incorporate the transformative leadership strategy (Hunt & Fitzgerald, 2013). Particularly, it will be imperative to change people’s concept of security in the environment of the global economy, therefore, convincing them to adopt a more responsible approach toward managing data (Shiralizadeh et al., 2015).
The promotion of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) (Rehman, Bakshish. & Sethi, 2012), therefore, must be viewed as an essential step toward reinforcing the security system in the organization and helping the staff members accept the new corporate policy. In other words, the people invited to be a part of the workshop must be aware of the dangers that they are exposed to in the global informational environment (Pancholi & Patel, 2014). Once the participants recognize the necessity of the measures, they will be able to apply them successfully.
One must admit that the above design of the workshop has its benefits and flaws. First and most obvious, the format suggested above requires that the information should be condensed to the essential facts only. Otherwise, there will be no time for training or discussions. Besides, the existing format implies a group training, which means that the individual needs of the participants might be overlooked in pursuit of the general goal of the workshop.
Nevertheless, the workshop also has its positive aspects. For instance, the focus on the essential concepts of the information security program will help the members of the team identify a threat fast and address it efficiently. Moreover, the overall awareness rates can be increased greatly as the members of the team learn more about the basic tools for using the web tools safely.
Also, the negative issues may be addressed comparatively easily. The presentation format will allow for having an impressive amount of time. Consequently, the instructor will be able to work with each participant individually as well as engage the entire group into the activities. Once the leader of the project uses the available opportunities, significant progress can be expected.
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