As Deputy Chief Information Security Officer, it often falls to me to come up with new and entertaining ways to engage our employees with the kind of in-depth security training mandatory at a large cybersecurity company.
Prior to National Cyber Security Awareness month (NCSAM) last year, I made a joke on an internal coms channel about penning an original security haiku each day that month. That simple joke stuck with me and I thought... why not?
So, each week I spent some time over coffee crafting security haikus and penning an email to be sent to the entire company each Monday morning. After the first week, something surprising happened - our employees started replying to my daily emailed haiku by sending me their own haikus in return.
Here are a selection of some of my favorites. Part 1 of this series can be found here.
Corrupted header
Shellcode returns to libc
Bug bounty award
- by Eric Kaiser
Security Automation
Classified data
No matter where you store it
Keep it encrypted
- by Steve Mancini
Deputy CISO
Happy Hour banter
Overheard in public place
Curb work topics there
- by Steve Mancini
Deputy CISO
Settle down email
A devious phishing loose
Watching the trusted
- by Tim Horton
DevOps Engineer Assoc Principal
The Cloud is your friend
Who shares company secrets
Secure your buckets
- by Steve Mancini
Deputy CISO
Classified info
Plus audience confusion
Equals data breach
- by Gabe Deale
Worldwide VP of Sales Engineering
Further reading:
Read my original post here: Creating Engaging Security Training for Employees
See more security haikus here: Cyber Security Training Haikus Part 2: Shellcode Returns
COPYRIGHT: All cybersecurity haikus © the BlackBerry Cylance employees named above. Kindy give them author attribution if sharing these haikus elsewhere.... because it's just a nice thing to do. ;)
