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April 14, 2024
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While there are many ways to promote a more cybersecure working environment, these are our top four recommendations for improving employee engagement and retention:
When it comes to cyberthreats, it can be difficult to separate fact and fiction. Stories of immense data breaches and inventive hacks muddy the water of what is and isn’t possible in the world of cybercrime. This creates its own unique challenge: employees are overly cautious about non-existent or misunderstood threats, and lax when it comes to real ones. In MediaPro’s 2020 “State of Privacy and Security Awareness Report,” their research team analyzed employee security practices and general threat awareness. Here are five of the most common security misconceptions they identified:
Email is still the most common vector for security incidents such as ransomware, business email compromise, and brand impersonation scams. Even before Covid-19, businesses were struggling to secure their email. In Mimecast’s 2020 “State of Email Security“, researchers found that:
The vast majority of companies have seen a stable increase in web and email spoofing threats, phishing attacks, and downtime following a security event. But over half do not provide awareness training on a regular basis. If more than a quarter of employees struggle to identify phishing attacks, and three in five can’t identify a social engineering attack, it’s only a matter of time before they click something they shouldn’t. When that happens, will your business be able to afford the data loss, downtime, and reputational damage?