How to Include Cybersecurity Training in Employee Onboarding

Bringing new employees up to speed on company policies and procedures, or employee onboarding, is standard practice. The process covers topics like what’s expected in daily work, proper communication channels and vacation and sick leave policies. In well-prepared companies, it also includes extensive cybersecurity training. Quality employee cybersecurity training, along with ongoing training for existing […]

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Designing a BYOD Approach for the Future

  Bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies were some of the many things that changed when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. A study from Palo Alto Networks by ONR found 60% of companies expanded their BYOD policies to help employees manage the shift to remote work at the beginning of the pandemic. However, the convenience that the new BYOD […]

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7 Ways to Improve Your Cybersecurity Team’s Employee Satisfaction

Your organization depends on your cybersecurity team to keep its infrastructure and data secure. But this only happens when the employees you manage are engaged in their work. Many organizations see a high burnout rate among those in cybersecurity roles. It’s natural due to the stress and pressure that are an inherent part of the […]

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Remote Work Security: Handling Setbacks in the Time of COVID-19

Most security experts, IT workers and leaders understand that the pandemic brought a decline in business and digital safety. A big part of that is the rush to get set up at home and establish remote work security. But why, exactly? It turns out that surprising factors degraded the security of the remote workforce. Let’s start […]

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Don’t Forget: A Checklist for Offboarding Remote Employees Securely

We all know about the threat of threat actors trying to access our corporate data.  But with the rise of remote work, keeping an eye on employees during offboarding is an important area to watch, as well. In many cases, employees can still access sensitive data well after they leave the job. This is even […]

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Offboarding: A Checklist for Safely Closing an Employee’s Digital Doors

Three years after I left my former job, I got an official letter telling me the organization suffered a data breach. My personal information was at risk of identity theft. I shouldn’t have been surprised. That job’s offboarding process hadn’t been the best. For years after leaving, I had access to my email and to […]

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Employee Mental Health: Managing Stress and Trauma

For many people working in cybersecurity, employee mental health could be a bigger part of our days. Our jobs entail a lot of putting out fires and being hyper-vigilant to the hazards of the internet. Being constantly on guard against danger and participating in adrenaline-filled responses to emergencies puts stress on us. This can lead […]

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Security-First Culture: Break Company Barriers With a Language That Works

A security-first culture means conveying cybersecurity needs throughout the enterprise, but it isn’t easy to maintain. Communication can be hard no matter who you’re working with. For many IT teams, the profit-and-loss conversation doesn’t come naturally. But these teams need to communicate with executives in order to get the resources they need to protect the […]

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Creating a Cybersecurity Culture Starts With Your Team

As cyberattacks become more prevalent and sophisticated, companies must put more faith in their employees to make sure they don’t put data at risk or fall victim to ransomware. But, employees are busier than ever. And, creating a cybersecurity culture at work becomes both more important and more challenging when employees work at home. Creating […]

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Why Security Incidents Often Go Underreported

If you saw a coworker browsing through a database they weren’t supposed to have access to, would you report it? New research suggests that employees often underreport such security incidents.

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