Security controls are only reliable if the people expected to operate them understand what good looks like.

Baseline awareness

All personnel should receive:

  • onboarding guidance on the most important security responsibilities
  • periodic refreshers on reporting, access, data handling, and common threats
  • targeted updates when the threat landscape or control environment changes materially

Role-specific training

Define extra expectations for roles with elevated impact, such as:

  • administrators and engineers
  • incident responders
  • people who approve supplier or risk decisions

Evidence

Keep a simple training record that shows:

  • who completed required training
  • when it was completed
  • which content or module was used