Planning with Purpose: 10 Tips to Develop Your Year-Long Security and Compliance Training Program

This post provides ten actionable tips for designing a year-long security and compliance training program for 2025, highlighting cross-functional alignment (Legal, Compliance, Cybersecurity, HR), smaller and more frequent modules, diverse content formats, and an 80/20 mix of off-the-shelf and customized materials. It recommends quarterly plan reviews to adapt to new threats and trends (e.g., AI chatbots), aligning content with key awareness dates, gathering learner feedback, offering optional learning (e.g., edutainment series), and maintaining active collaboration with e-learning providers. The overarching goal is to foster a culture of compliance and security through sustained, measurable, and engaging training rather than treating it as a checkbox exercise.