Engaging end users using marketing, psychology and safety theory.
About Geordie Stewart
His award winning masters thesis at the Royal Holloway Information Security Group examined information security awareness from a fresh perspective as a marketing and communications challenge. In his regular speaking appearances at international information security conferences such as RSA, ISACA and ISSA he challenges conventional thinking on risk culture and communication.
In addition to senior security management roles in large UK organisations Geordie writes the security awareness column for the ISSA international journal.
Awareness Blog
Information Classification
Information of different types need to be secured in different ways. Therefore a classification system is needed, whereby information is classified, a policy is laid down on how to handle information according to it’s class and security mechanisms are enforced on systems handling information accordingly.