Quotes from the interviews and other material in the making of "Advanced Persistent Training: Take Your Security Awareness Program to the Next Level" by Jordan Schroeder AdvancedPersistentTraining.com

1. Quotes from
“Advanced
Persistent
Training”

2. Not all the good stuff
gets printed
When writing, editing, performing interviews, and
even getting feedback from early reviewers,
there’s just a lot of good lines that don’t make it
into the book.
This is a collection of some of the things that I
gathered from the “notes in the margins”, as it
were.
- Jordan Schroeder, Author
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3. “ Security awareness
programs are about
managing risk; security
awareness training is
about managing people.
-Jordan Schroeder, Author
3

4. “
A decent security
awareness program must
create an emotional
reaction.
-Winn Schwartau
4

5. “
Employees are far more
receptive to training when
they feel they are being
empowered rather than
shamed.
-Wombat
5

6. “
You can learn a lot by
performing a mock
phishing campaign that
has no links whatsoever.
-Phishline
6

7. “
Feedback.
A concept so missing from
much of the IT security
industry.
- Winn Schwartau
7

8. “
It takes a minimum of
three training sessions for
the material to really sink
in.
-Rapid7
8

9. “
By changing the training
experience, you can
change interest, and by
changing interest, you
can change behavior.
- Curricula
9

10. “
Showing the tone at the
top can have a bigger
impact than all the
threats, rewards, or prizes
that you can throw at your
users.
-Phishline
10

11. “
There is no silver bullet in
implementing rewards or
penalties that replaces
education.
- Curricula
11

12. “
Our job as trainers is to
equip each person for that
moment of decision and
to support them afterward
regardless of the
outcome.
- Jordan Schroeder, Author
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