A rollout strategy for cybersecurity awareness

Abstract

It is important that government, private sectors and the citizens are cybersecurity savvy. This is often a challenge as the size of the target group is large and the expertise is diverse. This is coupled with limited resources, in terms of time and funding, making is difficult to administer cybersecurity awareness campaigns to a large target group. With these challenges in mind, it is the aim of the current paper to propose a cybersecurity awareness campaign rollout strategy for large and diverse groups. The main components of the strategy include posters, face-to-face training, games and an eLearning experience. This rollout strategy can be considered as an innovative and sustainable solution of educating many Internet users. Not only will this strategy contribute to the safety and security of organisational system infrastructure, it will also elevate and develop individual self-defence skills of the users.