Users Contribute to the Majority of Security Breaches
Users contribute to 85% of network security breaches! Why?
They’re Unsuspecting — most users don’t suspect phishing attacks. When they see emails coming from your finance department, their boss, or another colleague, they simply are focused on getting their work done.
Note: Team members with access to sensitive data or direct access to your bank accounts should be particularly conscious of phishing schemes.
They Don’t Take Precautions — more often than not, team members don’t heed security best practices in the workplace. Just to name a few common concerns: hard-to-crack passwords, secure remote connections, avoiding use of personal devices in the workplace, or leaving company computers devices unprotected when not in use.
Keeping your team engaged to proactively protect their (and your business) data. One way to keep your team safe is to give your users shielded protection wherever they might be working.
Scams Are Getting More Sophisticated — Don’t believe that cyber-criminals will keep working the same cyber-attack too many times. They are looking to unexpectedly have you or your team fall into their traps.
Email Phishing Campaigns Continue to Fund Tens of Thousands of Cyber Criminals
Your team needs to be made aware of common warning signs of email attacks.
Your business is a definite target for cyber criminals—whether you have 10 or 10,000 employees. However large your business, you have info criminals are looking for:
- Credit Card Information
- Customer Contact Information
- Health Data
- Intellectual Data
What can you do to protect your business?
Train Your Users — Create acute awareness within your company of the latest attacks. That means you need simulated attacks to test your most vulnerable AND identify changes to common behaviors that put your business at risk.
If you’re a Dynamic Edge client you have opportunities to engage your team in cyber security training that meets your PCI, HIPAA or NCUA compliance.
Create Effective And Understandable Security Policies — You should have a detailed security policy with standard procedures and precautions to avoid security threats. Make sure everyone understands how to respond in the event of a data breach.
If you’re a Dynamic Edge, we make sure your business has straightforward policies in place that follow any necessary compliance needs.
Keep Your Systems Up-To-Date — Your business needs weekly patches (realize Windows doesn’t automatically fix itself), DAILY backups (don’t worry about the what if’s when your network goes down and data gets lost) and a well-monitored networks (making sure you know when someone suspicious is on your network). There is no way around taking these simple, yet often overlooked, precautions in this day in age!
Dynamic proactively makes sure that all of your systems are up-to-date to proactively prevent time bombs on your network.
Shield Your Users — Are ALL of your machines firewall-protected from intrusions? Do your users have sensitive data on their local machines, or if they take their laptop or other corporate devices off-site. Remember, even if you have an effective firewall in place in the office, when people start working off-site, they are no longer protected.
Interested In Securing Your Network?
Contact Ben about setting up a plan! He can be reached at 734.404.8061 or 615.241.6538 – he’ll be waiting for your call.
