Starting a Security Champions network? Begin here.
You have been asked to build a Champions network, or you have decided the organisation needs one. Either way you are near the beginning, and there is a great deal of advice about. This page puts the three things you need in one place, in the order most people use them.
This is you if
- You have no network yet, or a handful of volunteers and no structure around them
- You need to understand the ideas properly before you explain them to anyone else
- Somebody senior still has to say yes
Three places to begin.
Most people work through them left to right. If you already know the ideas, go straight to the planner. If the only thing between you and a programme is a signature, start with the business case.
Understand the ideas
Four short reads that take you from why training alone stops working to what a well-run network looks like.
- Secure Behaviour Management 101
- Security Champions and Champions Networks
- The free book
Plan your programme
The Champions Journey Planner walks you from the first conversation with a sponsor to an established programme, and remembers where you got to.
- Five stages, thirty-one actions
- Tick them off as you go
- Free, with nothing to sign up for
Build the business case
What to say to the people who hold the budget, in the order that tends to work, with wording you can lift straight into your own document.
- The 60-second pitch
- A one-page business case with costs and returns
- A 90-day plan a sponsor can say yes to
Four reads, in this order.
Each one builds on the one before. Short of time? Read the first two and come back for the rest when someone asks you a question you cannot answer.
-
Secure Behaviour Management 101The primer. What SBM is, where the name came from, and why knowing what to do is not the same as doing it. COM-B, security fatigue, social norms and the other ideas the rest of this site leans on, in plain English and fully referenced.Read the primer →
-
What is a Security Champion?The role itself: who makes a good Champion, what they do in a normal week, and why a trusted colleague changes behaviour where a poster cannot.Meet the Champion →
-
What is a Champions Network?What you get when Champions are connected, coordinated and supported as one programme, and why that is the part that lasts.See the network →
-
Get the book →
The Rise of the Security ChampionThe free ebook. Nine chapters on why Champions work and how to design, launch, measure and sustain a network. The planner follows it chapter by chapter, so the two are best used together. No sign-up needed.
Want to go further? The Skills Framework sets out the 30 competencies the people running this work need, and the SHIELD Framework is the method a behavioural security programme follows once it is up and running.
Then plan it, one stage at a time.
The Champions Journey Planner turns the book into a checklist. Expand a stage, tick off each action as you finish it, and mark the stage complete to unlock the next. The first three stages are your first ninety days. The last two are what the programme becomes once it is running.
Your progress is saved in your browser, on this device. There is nothing to sign up for.
- Planning & Foundation 2 - 4 weeks
- Design & Recruit 3 - 6 weeks
- Launch & Develop 8 - 12 weeks
- Measure & Optimise Ongoing
- Scale & Sustain 12+ months
Get the business behind it.
You know a Champions programme is the right thing to do. The people who hold the budget need to know it too. The business case page is the route from an idea to a sponsored, funded programme with a start date.
The 60-second pitch
The problem, why the usual answer has stopped working, what you propose and what you need. Ready to copy.
Read the pitch →Why Champions
Three things a network does that nothing else can, each with the line that lands with a board.
See the arguments →Business case and ROI
A one-page outline with what it costs on one side and what it returns on the other.
Use the outline →The 90-day plan
What will exist at day 30, 60 and 90. Sponsors say yes to plans with dates.
See the plan →