TechRepublic: Cybersecurity: Don't blame employees—make them feel like part of the solution

One company is using this concept in the real world

It's not often that we encounter concepts presented in an academic paper in the real world. Mimecast, a company providing cloud cybersecurity services for email, data and web, appears to have incorporated Edmondson's concept of psychological safety into its message to customers—in particular, how security awareness can reduce human error and the need to blame anyone.

Before we get to the steps Mimecast employs, it might be to everyone's advantage, and hilarious, to watch the short video they created about human error. 

Mimecast offered suggestions for organizations to get their employees invested in security awareness in a press release.