2019 NATIONAL CYBERSECURITY AWARENESS MONTH
Your enterprise is only as strong as its weakest link. And a quarter of the time that link is a human, like Dave. Unintentional and accidental actions are the leading cause of data and security breaches. Dave doesn’t mean to be a threat, he’s just a person going about his day. Dave has good intentions and he'd know a scam if he saw one, even if his password is 12345. But when it comes to his personal devices, Dave is predictably. unpredictable.
So in honor of National Cybersecurity Awareness month, here are four ways to protect your network from Dave:
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As NCSAM 2019 comes to a close, let’s work together to help make cyber hygiene a priority year-round.
Even well trained and proactive employees are not immune to accidents, we must build accountability and proactive steps into the system.
Dave has a confession to make and security professionals need to hear it. She offers three recommendations on getting employees to learn best security practices and pay attention.
Dave clicks the links, sticks the thumb drives in, surfs to polluted websites, so on and so forth but is it really his fault? Security professionals need to be better educating clients, helping them reach their potential as Defenders of the Defenses.
Dave is predictably unpredictable when it comes to cyber hygiene and presents an opportunity to raise awareness and increase security. Read about his top six most common, unintentional mistakes.