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 secrets to cybersecurity survival 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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