Is your company at risk from an inside threat?

Last week news came out of the UK that a disgruntled employee deleted her employer's Dropbox after she was fired. The delete caused the company to lose over 5,000 documents and $100,000. This incident is bringing new light to internal threats. We often spend a lot of time thinking about the risks of viruses, malware, or phishing attacks and sometimes overlook that one of our greatest threats can come from within an organization.

There are steps you can take to protect your business from a disgruntled employee. From day one, make sure you set a tone of compliance and require all new employees to sign non-disclosures to prevent any of your intellectual property from leaving the company when the employee leaves. Make sure that all of your employees are thoroughly trained in cybersecurity and limit access to important files. You should also have some type of monitoring system in place, to ensure that your employees are following guidelines.

When an employee leaves your business, you have to make sure to change all of the passwords to the systems they had access to immediately upon their departure. Forgetting this last step can leave your business open and exposed to cyber risks.

Last week we also learned that it was discovered hundreds of Chrome extensions were caught spying on people. It is a good practice to frequently review your browser extensions. If you don't use or rarely use an extension, you may consider removing it to lessen your risks of a bad actor.

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