One of the best ways of improving your organisation's security culture is to identify who could be a Security champion. These champions can advocate for increased cyber awareness and to be a point of contact for colleagues to come to with questions.

The challenge is of course identifying who these people are.

CybSafe has made it easy for you to find out who is engaging with cyber security in your organisation with our Security Heroes leaderboard.

You can access the Security Heroes leaderboard from Reports > Engagement > Security heroes.

Here you'll see all uploaded users on your CybSafe account and their security hero score.

At a glance, you can see who has been engaging most with cyber culture in your organisation.

Your people can also check their own score on their homepage. It shows them the top three Security heroes, their position and the people immediately above and below them. It also tells them who they're compared with: everyone in your organisation, or their own group if you've chosen one (see Compare people within their own group).

We understand some administrators may not want the leaderboard to be viewable. It's simple to turn this off. Head to Platform settings in the left hand menu and disable the leaderboard.

Yes. If your programme has its own name, such as "Security Champions", you can use it on the leaderboard tile on people's home dashboard and add your own badge. Head to Settings > Platform settings > Branding and use the Personalise the leaderboard section. Menus, reports and Slack messages keep the Security Heroes name. See Branding the CybSafe platform for the steps.

You can set the time period for score calculation by heading to Platform settings. You can choose between:

You may wish to select 'Monthly' to crown a security champion of the month. Don't forget you'll need to review the results before the period ends!

NB: Points are always awarded and backdated, so if you weren't using heroes before, you'll still have a leaderboard when you turn it on.

In a large organisation, being ranked against everyone can put the top of the leaderboard out of reach. You can choose a top-level group instead, and each person's leaderboard on their home dashboard will rank them against their own group within it. This only affects people when the Security Heroes leaderboard is turned on.

Each person is compared with the lowest-level group they're a member of within the top-level group you choose (deactivated groups don't count). For example, if you choose Division and someone is a member of a Sales team beneath it, they're compared with everyone in that Sales team. If they're a member of Division itself and of no group beneath it, they're compared with everyone in Division. People who aren't in any group within Division keep the organisation-wide ranking. The leaderboard tells them who they're compared with: "Compared with everyone in" followed by the group's name.

You'll see "Success! Your platform settings have been saved." People see the change the next time they load their home dashboard.

If you can't see Compare users within, contact your CSM.

Someone sees "Compared with everyone in your organisation." if:

Points and scores are calculated in exactly the same way. Your Security Heroes report under Reports > Engagement > Security heroes still shows everyone in your organisation.

Choose All Users in Compare users within and click Submit. Everyone is ranked against the whole organisation again.

Choose the top-level group whose groups beneath it match how your people work, such as divisions, regions or business units. If those groups are very small, more people will fall back to the organisation-wide leaderboard.

If someone is a member of two or more groups at the same level within the top-level group you chose, they're compared within just one of them. To make sure people are ranked against the right colleagues, keep each person in one group at each level.

The Security hero scores are calculated by interactions with the CybSafe platform and update daily. These following actions will boost a users score:

Security heroes amplify good cybersecurity practices. The clue’s in the name. Points are scored each time security advice is shared through the CybSafe platform. The more someone shares cyber-content, the greater the influence on others’ cybersecurity practices. It’s all about social learning and salience.

Security heroes not only help others adopt good cybersecurity practices, but they report progress to CISOs, IT, and other security departments. Identifying and reporting security strengths and weaknesses embeds healthy practices org-wide. Not to mention the development of more impactful platform features!

Likes (and dislikes) measure engagement. Every article engaged with = points.

The repetition of good security practices helps internalise cybersecurity policies, beliefs and values. This leads to better security behaviours through a greater sense of personal responsibility, embedding a security culture beyond compliance.

Like refresher tests, re-visiting and completing goals helps internalise security behaviours, further embedding a positive cybersecurity culture within the organisation. There are points available for every goal completed! What a bargain.

Security heroes are interested and enthusiastic about cybersecurity. How do you measure that? Well, the more engaged your cyberheroes, the more often they’ll log on to the platform. The longer they spend on the platform, the more likely they are to partake in - and amplify - good cybersecurity behaviours.

Security surveys illustrate where your security exceeds, and what can be improved. After all, there’s no more trustworthy a source than your security heroes. That’s why every security survey question is worth points. So get answering!

Like security surveys, culture surveys are good indicators of the effectiveness of your security culture. Better understanding your security culture allows you to forge better policies and foster stronger security values.

* NB: No points are earned from this action, however naturally it's expected that people spending time on the platform will earn points!