Your people are your first and last line of defense against security threats. Ensure security is second nature.
The success of your company is greatly defined by the ideas, innovation, and ingenuity offered by your employees. However, your employees are also human, making them fallible to a cybercriminal who maliciously targets your individual employees when crafting a cyberattack. To prevent or mitigate the damage caused by a cyber attack or a data breach, you must ensure your employees possess the ability to recognize a potential security threat. With an adequate cybersecurity training program, you upskill the security literacy of your workforce, lessen the opportunity for human error, and reduce the likelihood of your business suffering a data breach.
Human error is the leading cause of security breaches, with 98% of incidents involving some type of social engineering. This requires a comprehensive cybersecurity training strategy to educate your team on common threats, enabling them to prevent or minimize the impact of a cyber attack.
The Importance of Cybersecurity Training
Cybersecurity awareness training educates employees on the critical role they play in securing your business, and also enables you to build a culture that includes security awareness. Our training programs are tailored to prepare your employees to identify current security threats relevant to their job, provide an understanding of how to avoid an unintentional data breach by improving their ability to identify and handle sensitive data, and create meaningful behavioral changes that minimize risk to your organization.
Provide your employees with an overview of the current cybersecurity threat landscape and the ways in which malicious actors are targeting you to commit cybercrime.
Define attack techniques including phishing, social engineering, and ransomware, while providing employees with guidance on how to avoid being subject to an attack.
Discuss the topic of insider threats, including how your employees themselves may intentionally or unintentionally become one.
Regulatory Compliance
Regardless of your industry, you are likely required to comply with data protection and security requirements defined by regulations including GDPR (EU Data Privacy), HIPAA (Healthcare providers who transmit Protected Health Information), and FERPA (privacy legislation for educational institutes). Security training ensures employees are aware of the requirements defined by these regulations, thereby helping your organization avoid costly fines and legal issues associated with non-compliance.
Determine the regulatory requirements applicable to your organization.
Communicate to employees their responsibilities in helping your organization maintain compliance with applicable legislation.
Monitor and communicate changes to regulatory environment (included with our retained services offering).
With nearly 25 years of cybersecurity experience gained from working with some of the largest consulting firms and global corporations in the world, our team provides you with subject matter expertise without the price tag associated with working with a large consulting firm. Through our Security Awareness Training, we will upskill your employees’ understanding of the cybersecurity threat landscape, make them aware of the ever-evolving tactics employed by cybercriminals, enhance their ability to identify potential security attacks, establish a culture that values cybersecurity, and ensure their understanding of any applicable regulatory requirements.
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Cybercriminals think they are smart. Let us help you make your employees are even smarter. Security-literate employees are one of the most effective weapons in preventing cyber-attacks. Cybersecurity is a complex topic. Our training program helps to demystify the complexity of cybersecurity to employees at all levels of technical proficiency.