New Security Awareness Practitioner Certification

Recognizing that the weak link in most security chains is human beings, the InfoSec Institute announced a new certification for security awareness practitioners. The Certified Security Awareness Practitioner (CSAP) boot camp is an intensive three-day course that prepares participants in building and managing their organization’s security awareness training program. Information covered in the boot camp expands across seven domains of knowledge. Students will demonstrate a mastery of understanding in the need for enterprise security awareness training, the security awareness practitioner role and responsibilities, security awareness program planning, development and implementation, managing a security awareness program as a project and common challenges related to security awareness training. With the goal of making end-user behavior more secure, CSAP will train participants to evaluate human risk and the current corporate culture as it relates to security. In addition, students will be able to assess the current security training programs within their organizations and recognize the areas of weakness that might be making them more vulnerable to attacks. Critical to the success of any security awareness training program is top-level support, so the course also explores ways to gain buy-in from corporate leadership.