When I talk to my certification students about HR’s role in dealing with technology in the workplace, I ask them to tell me how HR is involved with IT. I often get puzzled looks and some amorphous comments about enforcing policy. HR is the group that deals with the fallout of people violating policy. HR is also the group that initially communicates the IT policy, either through onboarding or through the employee handbook. However, Kurt Roemer, the Chief Security Strategist for Citrix, feels that cybersecurity should be an issue for all of the organization, not just IT, so in his scenario HR would play a bigger role.
