Security awareness training that works: How companies truly motivate employees

▤ Summary

This article explains why security awareness training often underperforms and what companies can do to improve participation. It argues that employees engage more when training feels relevant, practical, and easy to complete. Leadership support, repeated reinforcement, gamification, and real-world examples all help turn awareness into daily behavior. The piece also links the topic to compliance pressure from NIS-2 and the Cyber Resilience Act, which makes training more urgent. The main takeaway is that security awareness works best as an ongoing, embedded program rather than a one-time compliance task.

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G DATA CyberDefense AG

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