Picture this…You’ve just finished painting your living room in your home.
You have applied the final layer and are waiting for the paint to dry.
You’ve told everyone living with you not to touch the wall for the next couple of days, and have closed the door to the room while you have some friends over for lunch, however…
To your shock, one of your friends has accidentally wandered into the room and touched the wall, leaving one section of the pain completely ruined!
Now, you need to fix the wall while also realising the importance of telling anyone and everyone who comes into your home, not to touch the wall.
Albeit a minor example, now imagine the wall is your organisation’s network security layer and the friend who touched it, is someone within your business who was not aware that a phishing email has made its way into their inbox!
This is why you need to ensure cyber security training is one of the top priorities for all staff at your organisation, so that your data, revenue and information are all protected from any user errors.
Why should you educate your staff about cyber security?
You can do everything you can to ensure no spam ads, malware or password attacks get through to your network, however…
If just one employee clicks one link in one phishing email, your organisation could suffer severe financial and data losses!
It is often user error that leads to successful cyberattacks, and with a growing business like yours, doesn’t it make sense to mitigate the risk of any user errors occurring?
The first way to properly train your staff is to make cyber security awareness training a part of your employee onboarding
Cyber threats don’t discriminate when it comes to an employee’s tenure, and with new employees usually nervous, anxious and excited, it’s fair to say they might be a bit more prone to a mistake than others.
Another way to properly train your staff is to create frequent simulations of phishing emails to determine who engages with one and who needs additional training
We don’t know about you, but we would rather run phishing email simulations unbeknown to employees and find out who’s susceptible to engaging with a cyber threat, rather than a real one causing havoc.
Our third and final way to properly train your staff is to engage with expert third parties who are able to make this training an ongoing process
As time goes on, employees could naturally forget just how important it is to keep their guard when it comes to cyber security threats.
This coupled with the ongoing development of new threats and attacks means you need to make this training an ongoing process.
Written By: Michael from www.cogniops.com