Enterprise & Governance / Practice
Social hardening
Definition
The use of training, exercises, and organizational learning to strengthen people's ability to recognize, prevent, contain, and respond to security threats.
Continue exploring
Explore related concepts, research, and semantic relationships in the full I2IDL Glossary of Digital Learning.
Open this concept in the glossary →Editorial explanation
Technical controls alone are insufficient when human behavior is part of the security system; resilience also depends on people understanding how and why controls work.
Related concepts
Sources and evidence
- Modernizing Learning — Ch. 7, pp. 139-140 (direct)