Cybersecurity Awareness Month - Security Awareness Training

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Published: 19 October 2022

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As attackers don’t follow rules, they don’t have policies and certainly aren’t limited to changing control windows, the best we can do is to teach our employees how to protect themselves and their company. A good way to do that is  Security awareness training.

As attackers don’t follow rules, they don’t have policies and certainly aren’t limited to changing control windows, the best we can do is to teach our employees how to protect themselves and their company. A good way to do that is  Security awareness training.

SAT is a strategy used by IT and security professionals to prevent and mitigate user risk. These programs are designed to help users and employees understand the role they play in helping to combat information security breaches. Effective security awareness training helps employees understand proper cyber hygiene, the security risks associated with their actions and to identify cyberattacks they may encounter via email and the web.

According to a study by IBM, human error is the main cause of 95% of cybersecurity breaches. In other words, if human error was somehow eliminated entirely, 19 out of 20 cyber breaches may not have taken place at all!

So, why does human error cause so many breaches, and why have existing solutions failed to address it? In a security context, human error means unintentional actions - or lack of action - by employees and users that cause, spread or allow a security breach to take place.

This encompasses a vast range of actions - from downloading a malware-infected attachment to failing to use a strong password - which is part of the reason why it can be so difficult to address.

With our ever more advanced and complicated work environments, we have an increasing number of tools and services that we use - and we have usernames and passwords and other things to remember for each of them. This all adds up, and when not provided alternative, secure solutions, employees start taking shortcuts to make life easier for themselves.

As if this wasn’t enough for end-users to struggle to make the right actions, they also have to deal with the constant threat of cyber criminals affecting their decision-making. Social engineering has an increasing role in all types of security breaches and is used to exploit the capability of employees to hand over data or credentials right into the hands of bad actors without them having to write a single line of a malware program or software exploit.

Security awareness training helps to minimize that risk thus preventing the loss of PII, IP, money, or brand reputation. An effective awareness training program addresses the cybersecurity mistakes that employees may make when using email, the web, and in the physical world such as tailgating or improper document disposal.

Ask us for more information about SAT solution!

 

 

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