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The Security Culture Playbook: An Executive Guide To Reducing Risk and Developing Your Human Defense Layer 1st Edition
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Mitigate human risk and bake security into your organization’s culture from top to bottom with insights from leading experts in security awareness, behavior, and culture.
The topic of security culture is mysterious and confusing to most leaders. But it doesn’t have to be. In The Security Culture Playbook, Perry Carpenter and Kai Roer, two veteran cybersecurity strategists deliver experience-driven, actionable insights into how to transform your organization’s security culture and reduce human risk at every level. This book exposes the gaps between how organizations have traditionally approached human risk and it provides security and business executives with the necessary information and tools needed to understand, measure, and improve facets of security culture across the organization.
The book offers:
- An expose of what security culture really is and how it can be measured
- A careful exploration of the 7 dimensions that comprise security culture
- Practical tools for managing your security culture program, such as the Security Culture Framework and the Security Culture Maturity Model
- Insights into building support within the executive team and Board of Directors for your culture management program
Also including several revealing interviews from security culture thought leaders in a variety of industries, The Security Culture Playbook is an essential resource for cybersecurity professionals, risk and compliance managers, executives, board members, and other business leaders seeking to proactively manage and reduce risk.
- ISBN-101119875234
- ISBN-13978-1119875239
- Edition1st
- PublisherWiley
- Publication dateApril 19, 2022
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions6.3 x 1 x 9.1 inches
- Print length256 pages
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An expert demonstration of weaving security into your organization’s culture
In The Security Culture Playbook, two of the world’s foremost experts in security awareness, behavior, and culture deliver actionable insights―grounded in data and their own extensive experience―into how to revamp your organization’s security culture and reduce behavioral risk at every level of your company. You’ll discover the shortcomings in how firms have traditionally approached human risk and strategies and how to understand, measure, and improve every facet of your company’s security culture.
The authors demonstrate what security culture really means and how it can be measured, and identify the seven dimensions that make up a culture of security. You’ll find practical tools for managing your security culture program, including the celebrated Security Culture Framework and Security Culture Maturity Model. Importantly, you’ll also gain critical insights into how to build support within your executive team and Board of Directors to implement your culture management program.
Perfect for cybersecurity professionals, risk and compliance managers, executives, board members, and other business leaders, The Security Culture Playbook delivers a concrete blueprint for producing real change, reducing risk, and proactively managing your company’s exposure to cybersecurity threats. You’ll also find:
- Revealing interviews from security culture thought leaders in a variety of industries
- Strategies for bringing all the security culture pieces together into a coherent program
- Actionable and modern insights from sociology and other academic disciplines
- In-depth explanations of how to implement and shape behavioral outcomes, foster social pressures, and create positive patterns
From the Back Cover
“Perry’s exploration of security as a cultural force, created by processes and communications but separate from them, is a unique look into precisely that zone of our identity.”
― Matt Wallaert, Behavioral Scientist and author of Start At The End: How to Build Products That Create Change
“ Perry has his finger on the pulse of security awareness culture and knows how to bring it to life. His real-world expert advice focuses on what is actionable and most essential for protecting your organization right now.”
―Rachel Tobac, CEO of SocialProof Security and Friendly Hacker
“I can’t think of a better guide for organizational executives trying to reduce their inherent risk via an improved internal security culture.”
―Rick Howard, CSO, Chief Analyst, and Senior Fellow at the CyberWire
“I have seen Kai Roer demonstrate his passion and sincere dedication to improving the security culture of organizations for many years … Kai providing guidance for executives to understand their role and responsibility for creating a secure business ecosystem through using The Security Culture Playbook is a brilliant idea!”
―Rebecca Herold, CEO of The Privacy Professor consultancy, and Privacy & Security Brainiacs SaaS services
“There is no one better placed to present expertise related to security culture than Kai.”
―Raj Samani, McAfee Fellow, Chief Scientist
About the Author
PERRY CARPENTER, C|CISO, MSIA, is an author, podcaster, thought leader, and cybersecurity expert specializing in security awareness and the human factors of security. His research focuses on marketing, communication, behavior science, organizational culture management, sociology, and more.
KAI ROER is the author of several books on security and leadership, a keynote speaker, and a thought leader in the security culture field. In addition to his research, he is an entrepreneur and the inventor of technology and frameworks that transformed the information security industry.
Product details
- Publisher : Wiley
- Publication date : April 19, 2022
- Edition : 1st
- Language : English
- Print length : 256 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1119875234
- ISBN-13 : 978-1119875239
- Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.3 x 1 x 9.1 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #319,731 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #571 in Workplace Culture (Books)
- #621 in Computer Security & Encryption (Books)
- #636 in E-Commerce (Books)
About the authors

Perry Carpenter is a multi-award-winning author, podcaster, and speaker with a passion for deception and technology. With over two decades in cybersecurity, Perry has dedicated his career to understanding how cybercriminals exploit human behavior.
Perry's career has been a relentless pursuit of understanding how bad actors exploit human nature. His fascination for the art and science of deception began in childhood with magic tricks and mental manipulations, evolving into a mission to protect others from digital threats. As the Chief Human Risk Management Strategist at KnowBe4, Perry helps organizations and individuals build robust defenses against the ever-evolving landscape of online deceptions.
His latest book, FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions (Wiley: Oct 2024), tackles the fascinating and often daunting world of artificial intelligence. He explores AI's potential benefits and the darker side of its application in deception and misinformation. Through engaging storytelling and practical advice, Perry equips readers with the knowledge and tools needed to navigate the complexities of AI-driven deception.

Kai Roer currently serves as Chief Research Officer for KnowBe4, the world´s most popular security awareness and simulated phishing platform.
Kai has been providing actionable advice founded on empirical evidence to public and private organizations around the world since the 1990’s. His work over the past decades has focused on helping organizations understand what culture they currently have, what culture they would like to have, and more importantly how to get there. Kai works with the information security community on a global stage to educate the importance and impact that security culture has.
In 2010, he created the Security Culture Framework (SCF), a framework and methodology to build and maintain security culture. Kai later gifted the SCF to the Open-Source community, and it evolved into several spin-offs, including the Cybersecurity Culture Framework by The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) in 2015. Kai has authored and co-authored several books on leadership and technology. His popular book “Build a Security Culture” (IT-Governance, 2015) is widely considered as the guiding resource on the topic of security culture.
Before joining KnowBe4, Kai founded the security culture measurement company, CLTRe (pronounced culture), the world’s first SaaS-platform built to measure and manage an organization’s security culture. This new ability to measure security culture made it possible for organizations worldwide to understand exactly where and how to improve their security. KnowBe4 acquired CLTRe in 2019. After which, Kai built KnowBe4 Research, the research arm of KnowBe4, where he leads a team of researchers dedicated to improving the knowledge and understanding of the human factors that influence security.
Recognized by many as a leading global authority on the topic of security culture, he has received several awards, including the Ron Knode Service Award by the Cloud Security Alliance CSA for his extensive voluntary work in the security community around the world. Thanks to his invaluable contributions to the industry and his unique background that combines leadership, communication, and technology, Kai is a popular keynote speaker and guest lecturer. He focuses on presenting complex challenges in easy-to-understand language. He is also a frequent guest on podcasts, radio, and TV, where he explains security in ways that resonates with non-security people.
When Kai is not working, he enjoys riding his motorcycles, spending time in the outdoors, and BBQing with his family and friends.
You can connect with Kai on:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kairoer
https://twitter.com/kairoer



















