Are your staff cyber aware?

The last Government’s Cyber Security Breaches Survey reported that just 17% of businesses train staff on cyber security, and only 19% have tested their staff response to cyber incidents. And yet good training can bring about valuable and lasting behaviour change in your organisation, especially with so many employees now opting to work from home…?

That is why we advise businesses to use a service that measures, monitors and reduces their human cyber risk and gives staff the knowledge to combat evolving cyber threats.

7 reasons you should care about cyber-security training?

1. Save ￡￡￡￡s?

Regular cyber security training helps prevent breaches. Simple. We can’t always calculate exactly how many it prevents, but we do know that data breaches can cost millions. Meanwhile, cybersecurity awareness training is relatively inexpensive. So it doesn’t take much investment to get excellent returns.?

2. A culture of security?

A people-centric security culture is the goal for cybersecurity?professionals.?But… it’s notoriously hard to achieve. Good training means building security values into the heart of your organisation, which is particularly crucial now that workforces are more geographically scattered due to remote working practices.?

3. Real defence against cyber threats?

Firewalls need to be turned on. Security warnings need to be heeded. Software needs to be updated. Wherever your staff are situated. Without security awareness training and cybersecurity education, technological defences can’t fulfil their potential. Security awareness training helps people make the most of technological defences, consistently keeping attackers out.??

"With an effective training solution you can turn your users into a solid first line of defence"

4. Reassure your customers?

Your customers want to feel safe and secure. The same goes for any partners. Recent research (by arcserve) tells us nearly 2 out of 3 consumers would stay away from an organisation that had experienced a cyber attack in the past year.

When you provide cybersecurity awareness training to your employees, your customers will instantly see you as more responsible.?

5. Meet compliance requirements?

Achieving compliance doesn’t mean your organisation is secure. If you launch a training program solely to comply with regulations, you’re doing the bare minimum. Is that really good enough??

Compliance should be a by-product of good security awareness training. When you provide the right training, you’ll cruise through the regulatory requirements, almost by accident!?

6. Improve your organisation’s social responsibility score??

One organisation’s lack of security awareness training makes other organisations vulnerable.?It’s like leaving your house door unlocked - with your neighbour’s keys inside. Security awareness training doesn’t just benefit you. It benefits your customers, your suppliers, your colleague’s friends and families, and everyone else in your network.

7. Improve employee wellbeing?

Keep in mind that security awareness training doesn’t just keep people safe at work. It keeps them safe from cybersecurity threats, phishing threats, and social engineering in their personal lives too. That means it isn’t just an employer benefit, it’s also an employee benefit.?

So what does good cyber security training look like??

Security awareness training is simply the process of educating people to understand, identify, and avoid cyber threats. The ultimate goal is to prevent or mitigate harm - to both an organisation and its stakeholders - and reduce human cyber risk. Training should be provided for all employees, especially if they need to work securely from home, and be undertaken regularly.?

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What should staff training include?

It’ll never happen to me!? People don’t believe they’ll be a victim of cybercrime. That’s the optimism bias at work, and by covering it you’ll boost the effectiveness of your training. Why? Because if people think it’ll never happen to them, why would they listen in the first place??

Social engineering?

Teach people to feel confident about how to identify different types of social engineering attacks, such as phishing, and how to avoid scams.

Browsing securely?

Show people how to browse the internet securely.

Mobile Device security?

Make people aware of the risks associated with mobile devices and what measures should be in place to keep them safe.

Password management and multi-factor authentication?

Show?people how to embrace passphrases and use MFA for added security.?

Public Wi-Fi?

This is where people can learn all about the risks of unsecured public Wi-Fi and how they can protect themselves.

GDPR and data privacy?

It’s becoming more common for people’s roles to involve being a ‘data handler’ under the General Data Protection Regulation. That means they have specific responsibilities that they need to be aware of through the right training.?

"Since using the training platform, we have seen a significant reduction in the number of employees clicking malicious links or opening malicious attachments."

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How can you test the training?

Simulated phishing emails is the best way to test that your training efforts have worked. We use a service where these can be scheduled to assess your employees' risk, allowing your business to ensure there are no gaps in knowledge and target further training.

Our simulation service can also schedule reports and automatically assign further training to any user compromised during a phishing simulation, reducing the time needed to manage your training platform.

If you want to know more about security awareness training or phishing simulations please contact us now:??

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