Security Champions Program

Security Champions Overview

Security Champions are passionate individuals across organization who promote security within their teams. Champions bridge security team and business, scale security knowledge, and drive security culture from within.

Champion Selection

Identify champions through volunteering, manager nomination, or security team identification. Look for security interest, influence within teams, communication skills, and willingness to invest time in security.

Program Structure

Provide champions with training, regular updates, direct access to security team, recognition, and empowerment to influence team practices. Structure around regular meetings, collaboration channels, and defined responsibilities.

Champion Activities

Champions promote secure coding, participate in threat modeling, review security designs, share security updates, answer security questions, and provide feedback to security team about team needs and challenges.

Program Success

Successful programs provide executive support, dedicate security team time for champion enablement, recognize champion contributions, measure impact, and continuously improve based on champion and team feedback.

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