90% of malware is delivered by emails. If cybercriminals manage to breach your system, they can gain access to your network and gather sensitive data about your company, clients, employees, and you. Every 30 seconds there is a new phishing attack.
Technological solutions sustain cyber security, but the working environment relies on employees to mitigate against phishing attacks. It is crucial to keep employees interested and engaged in cyber security as well as to make this process accessible, relevant, and simple. Cyber security is an everyday job, and it is everyone’s responsibility.
Do your employees care enough?
Safeguarding data, applications, and infrastructure is a critical measure today to improve organisational cyber security. But the first defence layer of cyber security is your employees. Phishing is not defeated by technology but it is defeated by humans. Your employees should care about organisational cyber security. But it is the job of a leader to empower them to build a sense of personal and shared responsibility. Committed employees to implementing organisational cyber security policies and are smart outside the office.
Who are Cyber Guards?
The human factor is a weakness of cyber security. However, it is also a key to the strength of the organisation. Making employees responsible for their own cyber security makes the working environment and organisation safer. It is a manager’s responsibility to make sure that employees understand the importance of maintaining cyber security in the organisation. Cyber awareness, cyber inclusion, and a safe environment make a human layer of cyber security become your organisational cyber guards.
Ongoing engaging training keeps employees aware and engaged in cyber security. It can be both formal and informal. The holistic approach to training your employee’s cyber knowledge and skills leads to better cyber security.
Open communication is important to tackle cyber security issues. It allows employees to feel comfortable to share their worries, struggles, and concerns in cyber security and gain help from a lead. It reduces cyber risks and improves cyber response. It improves organisational financial, legal, and reputation state.
The human-centric approach to cyber security in an organisation is a comprehensive and holistic approach to cyber security. Understanding organisational values help employees to build a sense of relation and responsibility. It is essential for employees to know how to identify phishing attacks, report them, and stop them. It is essential to empower employees to take responsibility for their digital actions. Such an approach requires a change in mindset, values, and behaviour.
Focus on humans, empower them to fight back, and build human strength.
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