Security culture

Security culture is a term used to describe the ideas, customs and social behaviors of a group of people, that impacts their security. Security culture is a subset of the larger cultural scope of any particular people or group. Today, security culture is being used to describe the kind of behaviors organizations would like to see in their employees, in areas like cybersecurity, physical security and personnel security. The term is used by government institutions within defense, police and intelligence agencies to explain the focus on security, security trainings and the need to change an individuals behavior into a behavior that is coherent to the security behaviors determined by the organization.