Why Enroll Your Team in our Cybersecurity and Breach Prevention Training?
With regular news of data breaches, your team compromised of (mostly) tech savvy users, business-class firewalls, malware protection and managed systems, why do you need your team enrolled in our breach prevention and productivity platform?
One might assume that frequently hearing of data breaches would make us more aware of cyberthreats and lead us to take care to avoid them. However, the opposite seems to occur: we become calloused to the information, figure it won’t happen to us and miss red flags inviting a compromise. Most people born in the 1970’s were exposed to tech at an early enough age to develop some comfort with it, while the youngest among us has hardly lived a day without it. That makes for careful users, right? Nope. You have your organization’s systems patched regularly, maybe even under management by a professional team. That covers the holes, right? Not all of them!
Security is, and always has been, best achieved via a multi-faceted approach:
- In the office using perimeter firewalls and VPNs to corporate resources outside the office. Remote users protected with mobile firewalls and VPNs.
- Regularly applied security updates for all electronic devices: Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, Linux operating systems, all the software and apps that run on them.
- Centrally managed malware detection and automated response
- Physical access restrictions
- Permissions-based access to resources
- Multi-factor authentication
- Proven backups
So, are you and your team doing all of the above? Maybe more? So where’s the risk? In a word: people. We are all fallible. Everyone is busy, work tasks become rote, accidental slip-ups happen. A link is clicked, email acted on, words spoken, posts left unattended and unsecured.
Ransomware remains a serious threat but so do other attacks. While payments are down to redeem data, the value of that data remains high to criminals wanting to use it. Due to data value, cybercriminals want to ensure they get maximum payout by surveying what might be available and how to compromise what they cannot yet see. They use combined attacks that could start with any form of phishing or malicious link which installs malware designed to hijack legitimate system processes for recognizance and further intrusion in what has been labeled a LOTL (Living Off The Land) attack. LOTLs are difficult to spot and have given rise to live monitoring and response services where teams watch for aberrant behavior within systems. Most smaller organizations do not subscribe to such services due to cost.
Many businesses use at least one Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) tool: Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, QuickBooks Online, Dropbox, Zoom. These are tools accessible from anywhere and typically any device type over an internet connection. They are powerful and useful tools for teams to get work done, but they bring many risks as well: solutions are adopted without planning—maybe at an organization-wide level, maybe by a team, maybe by an individual user. When not planned and managed by corporate IT, these become shadow IT and presents risks of data leaks as well as introduction of new problems. There are a slew of add-ons, extensions and apps to streamline tasks. Platforms are under constant development and unfortunately, security is not usually the foremost goal. Additionally, when setup by someone with insufficient understanding of how to secure them, users may be granted too much access to do damage and other security measures may be overlooked. Most are rapidly integrating AI which can really speed up most anything it’s setup to do—it can also leak sensitive data and “hallucinate” producing unreliable results. Do you see how this could be bad for your organization?
We’ve chosen a breach prevention and productivity training platform that offers some of the best training delivered in such a way as to engage participants with memorable content. Annual trainings are new each year and take about an hour to complete. There is an additional module for managers covering topics that relate to their specific job function. Short extra-credit modules on various topics such as Microsoft 365, Google Workspace and AI readiness provide targeted information. Every week users receive a micro-training of about two minutes on a specific topic. These weekly lessons cement the annual training and introduce emerging concerns. They give users tools to identify and take action on threats as well as tips to decrease risk whether on the job or in their personal lives. There are productivity tips, a centrally managed portal for your team where managers can track employee progress and encourage competition. Organizations are able to monitor for dark web breaches on employee accounts and users can check to see if any of their personal accounts have been breached. Users are regularly tested with phishing simulations. If a link is clicked, they’re alerted to their error and supplied a brief training reviewing techniques to identify phishing emails. This reinforcement works to prevent real breaches. The admin portal provides templates for organization security policies which can be adapted and added to your employee handbook. You can also add your own policies and have users acknowledge them right in the portal. From all this content generate reports for compliance and insurance requirements showing your due diligence to protect your client and employee data.
Maybe you want or need to do a security risk assessment: there is a framework for one built into the tool which walks through a series of questions. At the end a report is generated with all the details showing where things are nailed down and where work is needed—along with steps to address the shortcomings. For those under HIPAA regulations, there is specialized training available. All packages are affordably priced. Watch this year’s trailers and then contact us for a demo. By training super heros and sharing what we learn, we can defend ourselves against evolving threats.
