Institutionalizing a Strong Security Culture

Are you struggling to get your organization to care about the security of its digital assets? Do you feel like you are in an uphill battle getting executive leaders and employees to understand the importance of cybersecurity? The newly updated LDR521: Security Culture for Leaders is here to change that narrative and empower you to build a robust security culture within your organization.

Course Overview: What is Security Culture?

Security culture encompasses your organization's shared attitudes, perceptions, and beliefs about cybersecurity. The more your leadership and workforce believe in and prioritize security, the more likely they will support your initiatives and exhibit the desired behaviors. LDR521 offers hands-on instruction and interactive labs that teach you how to embed security into your organization's culture, starting from senior leadership down to every employee. You'll learn to apply organizational change concepts to various security initiatives, ensuring that security becomes a natural and integral part of your business processes.

What's New?

The new LDR521 is designed to be more strategic and actionable. We’ve updated the course to provide a defined roadmap that you and your security team can implement the day you get back in into the office. Additionally, we’ve added a new section on leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) to accelerate culture change. Key changes include:

• Simplifying the process of mapping your organization’s overall culture by adopting the Competing Values Framework.
• Including new case studies, such as Microsoft’s response to the 2023 breach, following the Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) report.
• Providing additional materials on simplifying, automating, and enabling security for your workforce, incorporating lessons learned from Amazon’s JobZero initiative.
• Updating the Day 5 capstone to leverage SANS’s new ranges.io online simulation technology.

What Sets LDR521 Apart?

Unlike traditional cybersecurity courses, LDR521 emphasizes the practical application of skills through eleven interactive team labs and a capstone event using the Cyber42 simulation game. This immersive approach allows you to apply what you've learned in real-world scenarios, fostering critical thinking and teamwork. You also have the chance to earn the coveted LDR521 Challenge Coin, symbolizing your mastery of the course material.

Key Benefits

The key benefits and business takeaways of this course include:

• Security at Scale: Simplify your role by scaling both yourself and your security team, reducing the impact of burnout on the team you lead.
• Embed Security: Integrate security automatically into the start of every business project and initiative across all business units in your organization.
• Executive Support: Secure the executive leadership support you need for your most important initiatives.
• Secure your Workforce: Encourage desired behaviors in your workforce without the need for constant directives.
• Successful Initiatives: Enhance the success of your security initiatives by gaining buy-in from key departments, such as IT, Engineering, and Business. 
• Advocates: Transform your security team into advocates who engage, motivate, and enable your workforce to maintain higher security standards.

Who Should Attend?

LDR521 is designed for senior and experienced cybersecurity leaders, managers, officers, and awareness professionals. It is particularly beneficial for:

• Chief Information Security Officers
• Chief Risk Officers
• Security Awareness Engagement Managers
• Senior Security Managers
• Information Security Architects and Consultants
• Aspiring Information Security Leaders

Why Take LDR521?

"For far too long, security teams have struggled with the human side of cybersecurity. LDR521 arms you with the knowledge, skills, and resources to institutionalize a strong security culture so your organization believes in and prioritizes cybersecurity," says SANS Senior Instructor and course co-author Lance Spitzner.

Enroll in LDR521: Security Culture for Leaders and transform your approach to cybersecurity culture. Equip yourself with the tools to engage, motivate, and secure your workforce, ensuring a resilient and security-conscious organization. Join us in revolutionizing security culture and making cybersecurity a priority for everyone in your organization.