The Importance of Curating a Culture of Upskilling & Career Progression, rather than Mandatory Training.

Culture and Cybersecurity go hand-in-hand. Without the appropriate culture to cultivate cybersecurity upskilling, getting ahead with those efforts can be challenging. Additionally, many individuals won't know how Cybersecurity relates to them. As such, it is essential to explain and demonstrate why security is important to everyone while using relevant examples.
These days, I've been finding the most success utilizing AI as a primary example.
In one instance, everyone uses AI whether they know it or not. Still, most people don't know what AI or the layers and layers of underlying data and algorithms actually do.
As such, with this timely and relevant example, we can demonstrate how AI works at a basic level, discuss how the data and inputs placed into it are utilized, and enable users to better (and more securely) utilize AI. Additionally, as a 'wow' factor, talking about deepfakes, advanced phishing, and voice cloning using AI are all ways to show the dangers and WHY security is relevant to everyone.

So my tip would be to keep it relevant! Everyone has probably seen dozens of phishing training videos and will likely click through them as fast as possible. Do something new or relevant that affects users without them knowing it.
Start slow! We don't need to drown people in training or fearmonger them into this; that will turn people away.
Lastly, make it fun and interesting! Use our labs, crisis sims, chatbots, etc, to demo and show the interesting bits to get them interested in everything else.