Awareness
The posture pillar covering human-factor security: phishing simulation, security training, security champions, and culture. Cheap to fund, slow to compound, often under-credited until a click-rate stat changes.
Where this term fits in a CISO program
Awareness is one of 35 cybersecurity strategy concepts CISO Game models live. Awareness appears throughout the simulation — in the risk register, the investment catalog, and the mechanics reference — so a player encounters the concept in context rather than as an isolated definition.
See it in play
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