Changing security culture

Quoted from the UK GDaD PCF.

Levels

1. Awareness

*Senior leadership skill: the UK GDaD PCF defines it with one statement, not by level.* You can: Examples of leadership using this skill:

• put in place continuous cyber and information security awareness and education programs, for example, training for specific groups
• use a range of methods to assess whether people’s security behaviour is improving
• compare the maturity of security awareness and culture in your organisation against others across government to determine effective improvements
• incentivising the right behaviours across the whole organisation so that everyone knows how they contribute to security
• persuading senior leadership to represent a campaign personally
• communicating insights from previous incidents to ensure they are learned from

2. Working

*Senior leadership skill: the UK GDaD PCF defines it with one statement, not by level.* You can: Examples of leadership using this skill:

• put in place continuous cyber and information security awareness and education programs, for example, training for specific groups
• use a range of methods to assess whether people’s security behaviour is improving
• compare the maturity of security awareness and culture in your organisation against others across government to determine effective improvements
• incentivising the right behaviours across the whole organisation so that everyone knows how they contribute to security
• persuading senior leadership to represent a campaign personally
• communicating insights from previous incidents to ensure they are learned from

3. Practitioner

*Senior leadership skill: the UK GDaD PCF defines it with one statement, not by level.* You can: Examples of leadership using this skill:

• put in place continuous cyber and information security awareness and education programs, for example, training for specific groups
• use a range of methods to assess whether people’s security behaviour is improving
• compare the maturity of security awareness and culture in your organisation against others across government to determine effective improvements
• incentivising the right behaviours across the whole organisation so that everyone knows how they contribute to security
• persuading senior leadership to represent a campaign personally
• communicating insights from previous incidents to ensure they are learned from

4. Expert

*Senior leadership skill: the UK GDaD PCF defines it with one statement, not by level.* You can: Examples of leadership using this skill:

• put in place continuous cyber and information security awareness and education programs, for example, training for specific groups
• use a range of methods to assess whether people’s security behaviour is improving
• compare the maturity of security awareness and culture in your organisation against others across government to determine effective improvements
• incentivising the right behaviours across the whole organisation so that everyone knows how they contribute to security
• persuading senior leadership to represent a campaign personally
• communicating insights from previous incidents to ensure they are learned from

Contains public sector information from the UK Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework (https://understand-digital-data-roles-skills.service.gov.uk/), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright.

Closest ESCO skills

• set up cybersecurity training programmes (close match)
• educate on data confidentiality (narrow match)
• shape corporate culture (broad match)

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Role levels that expect this skill