SC-B-03Level 1 · Signal
Retains knowledge over time
- Behavior
- Vigilant
- Level 1 · Signal
A vigilant Behavior signal from the awareness platform (SAT, assessment retest): this person passed a retest weeks or months after the original course.
Classification
- Risk domain One of 9 areas of human risk, from social engineering to readiness and response. Every signal belongs to one.
- Evidence level
- Maturity practices One capability a program performs, scored on its own: See, Understand, Act, Prove, Govern and Culture.
- Leads to The kind of breach the evidence beneath it points toward, each anchored to a Verizon DBIR or VERIS pattern or an FBI IC3 category.
- NIST CSF 2.0
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- PR.AT-01
- MITRE ATT&CK
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None mapped
The definition, in detail
Definition
The knowledge held without a refresher.
Example
A branch manager scores full marks on the social-engineering retest 90 days after the course with no reminder in between.
How it is measured
- Subject
- Person
- Event
- Assessment retest
- Risk domain
- Security culture
- Provenance
- Forrester
How it is used
Programs count "Retains knowledge over time" per person from Awareness & phishing simulation and read it beside the other Security culture signals; it feeds 0 cohorts, 0 sequences and 1 breach scenario.
A "retains knowledge over time" event is evidence of a protective behavior; a vigilant behavior at any step breaks a sequence. It is one event, and it does not cancel the risky signals the same person carries.
Library indicators
The detailed observations in the indicator library with the same risk domain, dimension and polarity as this signal.
- I.0084Engages with optional trainings
- I.0086Completes collaborative trainings
- I.0087Completes collaborative trainings on time
- I.0090Reports high confidence in security self assessments
- I.0094Reports high confidence in organizational security readiness
- I.0096Completes training consistently over multiple assigned trainings
- I.0098Reports increased confidence in security self assessments
- I.0177Regularly accesses security awareness resources
- I.0436Participates in cybersecurity culture initiatives
Continue exploring
"Retains knowledge over time" (SC-B-03), Human Risk Management Framework v2.0.0, Living Security, CC BY 4.0. https://www.humanriskmanagement.com/taxonomy/signals/sc-b-03-retains-knowledge-over-time
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The initial assessment
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18 questions, about 4 minutes and nothing to type before the result: your level, a score for each practice and three first playbooks, each Easy, Medium or Hard.