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Following a recent network intrusion, a company wants to determine the current security awareness of all of its employees. Which of the following is the BEST way to test awareness?

  • A. Conduct a series of security training events with comprehensive tests at the end
  • B. Hire an external company to provide an independent audit of the network security posture
  • C. Review the social media of all employees to see how much proprietary information is shared
  • D. Send an email from a corporate account, requesting users to log onto a website with their enterprise account
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Suggested Answer: D 🗳️

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D1960
3 years, 8 months ago
Maybe B. Hire an external company to provide an independent audit of the network security posture ? Employee awareness is part of the network security posture; but that seems like overkill. However, this is a reasonable answer, given the poor choices available.
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Dooz
3 years, 8 months ago
Answer is D. Firstly, answer A wouldnt assess the companys current awareness if you are training them first. Also, for D, phishing campaigns are something most companys do very regularly in the real world as a an easy way to assess awareness.
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D1960
3 years, 8 months ago
Good points. But, a phishing campaign would only test one area of employee security awareness. It would only test whether employees know better than to click on insecure link. There are *many* other aspects of employee security awareness. For example: what about phone calls from a social engineering scam? Or what a social engineering attack where the attacker dresses as a copier technician. What about what can be posted to social media? There are many other things to test besides phishing awareness.
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d10shivan
3 years, 11 months ago
The only reason I wouldn't pick A (Training Event) is if the company wanted to assess their awareness "as it is today" and not "after they've been trained". In that way, pulling a stunt like trying to get them to use their creds incorrectly (Answer D) might be a "gotcha" way to assess them?
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D1960
3 years, 9 months ago
You make some good points, I up voted your post. But D seems to test only one aspect of employee security awareness. I may re-consider: B. Hire an external company to provide an independent audit of the network security posture
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Trap_D0_r
4 years, 2 months ago
I agree that none of the answers really seem to have anything to do with the question "How should a company assess it's employee's security awareness?" but A is the only one that sort of like even attempts to answer it.
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D1960
4 years, 5 months ago
Maybe: A. Conduct a series of security training events with comprehensive tests at the end? The question asks how to test awareness of the employees, not the network security posture. I suppose the employee awareness is part of the network security posture; but that seems like overkill. I think A may be a better answer.
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