Studies show human error remains the primary challenge to effective cybersecurity as roughly nine of every 10 incursions can be linked to users – from the front lines to the C-suite – falling for common social engineering techniques.
To cope with this nagging reality, we counsel taking two immediate initiatives within your organization:
- Recognize Risk – Identify and quantify the tangible cybersecurity risks to your company, such as lost revenue, data remediation rigors and restoration costs. Assess the intangible risks, too, like damage to your reputation.
- Raise Awareness – Train team members at every level about cyber threats and the crucial role individual executives, workers and partners play in preventing cybercrime.
How can you implement these guidelines on a day-to-day basis?
- Set Up Simulations – Show staff how cyber crooks operate using real-world examples. What do social engineering techniques look like in email form? As a text? And sound like over the phone?
- Rev Up Reminders – Increase the frequency of notices of when it’s time to update passwords and other credentials. Also, persistently and consistently remind users of the value of countermeasures such as two-factor authentication.
- Workshop It – Offer cybersecurity education options in person and online as a way and a place for implementing the first two suggested tactics.
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