How to motivate people to do cyber-security training

Posted by Det_23324@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 258 comments

Hey sysadmin, Our company like many companies has mandatory cyber-security training (only 1 hour to do). The only problem is that even though its mandatory a vast majority of people still don't do it. (Over 70%) The COO has sent out multiple emails before the training and explained the seriousness of it. He even threatened that your bonus would be in jeopardy if you don't. Even with that though people don't do it. Also I forgot to mention we send reminder emails every couple days to tell them to complete the required training. Has anyone ever ran into something like this before, and what steps did you take to solve it? The last idea we have is that we will start locking people out of their accounts and give them no more excuses to not do it.