Reporting skills important for any cyber security training

April 23, 2016 | by Alissa Abaskanova | Blog posts 0 Comments

When it comes to major attacks, in many cases corporate executives are handing the full cyber security responsibility to their IT staff.

Surveys revealed almost 90 percent of corporate executives were not able to read or understand an IT security report.

The majority of IT security employees were unable to deliver their reports in a “non-tech” and “understandable” way to their CEO’s, CIO’s or the Board Members.

There are two ways to fix this issue, and they are best used together:

#1: Corporate executives need to be educated about cyber security and become fluent in the issue to be able to determine the IT staff’s performance. – according to Dave Damato, chief security officer at Tanium.

#2: Corporate executives need to educate their IT staff so they are able to interpret their own tech-language into a “proper” report and deliver the information in an understandable way.

What is your opinion, do you think that’s possible?

Innovation means looking a little bit further and considering all possible environments. While creating our IT security training courses we always strive to be as innovative as possible.

Our team of researchers included Advanced Reporting skills into eLearnSecurity training courses as we believe it to be an essential part!

If you are a corporate executive, make sure your team has the skills to deliver the information to you in an understandable.

If you are an IT security specialist, be as effective as possible. Gain your experience and know that reporting skills are highly important for your role. Cyber security is an industry where you can’t stop improving your skills. Otherwise you will quickly be “outdated”.

Check out our training courses now, which also cover reporting skills.