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14.9: Conduct Role-Specific Security Awareness and Skills Training

Requirement description

Conduct role-specific security awareness and skills training. Example implementations include
secure system administration courses for IT professionals, OWASP® Top 10 vulnerability awareness
and prevention training for web application developers, and advanced social engineering awareness
training for high-profile roles.

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CIS 18 controls

14.9: Conduct Role-Specific Security Awareness and Skills Training

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Personnel security
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14.9: Conduct Role-Specific Security Awareness and Skills Training
CIS 18
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Conducting role-specific security awareness and skills training
1. Task description

The organization enhances its security training by developing role-specific modules, providing secure system administration courses for IT staff, offering OWASP Top 10 vulnerability training for developers, and delivering advanced social engineering awareness for high-risk roles.

Unit- or role-specific security guidelines
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Unit- or role-specific security guidelines
1. Task description

The security guidelines are specified in connection with the employee's job role. The organization has identified units and roles that require separate guidance and develops its own detailed security guidelines for these.

Examples of units that may require their own guidelines are e.g. customer service, IT and HR. Examples of work roles that require their own instructions are the system administrators and the remote workers.

Training personnel with a changed role
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Personnel security
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7.3: Termination and change of employment
ISO 27001
7.3.1: Termination or change of employment responsibilities
ISO 27001
PR.IP-11: Cybersecurity in human resources
NIST
6.5: Responsibilities after termination or change of employment
ISO 27001
PR.IP-11: Cybersecurity is included in human resources practices (deprovisioning, personnel screening…).
CyberFundamentals
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Training personnel with a changed role
1. Task description

Training arranged before granting access rights applies not only to new employees but also to those who move to new tasks or roles, especially when the data systems used by the person and the security requirements related to the job role change significantly with the change of job role. The training is arranged before the new job role becomes active.

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