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Traditional employee risk mitigation efforts such as security awareness training and phishing simulations have a limited impact on improving employees’ real-world cybersecurity practices, according to Elevate Security and Cyentia Institute. The report … Continue reading Security awareness training doesn’t solve human risk
Research suggests that email is the most common point of entry for malware, providing access in 94% of cases, so it’s unsurprising that phishing is the root cause of 32% of security breaches. Just last month the UK government’s Cyber Security Breaches … Continue reading Email security is a human issue
Training to increase employees’ security awareness and change risky behaviours among end users is important, particularly as the future workplace will be hybrid and many professionals will still be working remotely. After all, you don’t want your emplo… Continue reading Secure your cloud: Remove the human vulnerabilities
People ignore information that isn’t relevant to them, which is why IT and HR departments have been approaching security training incorrectly for years. Long-form, all-hands security seminar trainings have contributed to nearly daily data breaches for … Continue reading Use longitudinal learning to reduce risky user behavior
While spending on cloud services is high, with more than half of respondents having spent more than $10 million and 11% having spent more than $100 million in the last three years, security preparedness is low, with 32% saying they are doing less than … Continue reading Complexity and budgetary constraints complicate cloud security
Remote work has become a new normal for industries worldwide, which presents exciting opportunities but also has the potential to expose critical security weaknesses, since employees tend to let their guards down while working from home. Employees need… Continue reading Five steps to get employees invested in security awareness training
It’s time for Security Awareness to adapt by thinking Cyber The transition to working from home, as well as the necessary technological change, has had an effect on businesses all over the world. This has serious consequences for cybersecurity. Cu… Continue reading Adapting Security Awareness to the Post-Pandemic World
A security operations center (SOC) is the central nervous system of any advanced cybersecurity program. Yet even the most well-funded, highly organized and properly equipped SOC is often no match for a simple misconfiguration error. Organizations have … Continue reading The SOC is blind to the attackable surface
Article by Daniel Warelow, Product Manager at Giacom and Charles Preston, CEO & Founder of usecure
Employees are a vital part of the security strategy
Security Awareness Training the foundation of a Cyberculture Life and work as we know i… Continue reading Building a Security Conscious Workforce
In the people-process-technology triad, human error is the top reason for breaches, accounting for 70% of successful attacks, a Cyberinc survey reveals. The next biggest cause is vulnerability management through patches and upgrades, accounting for jus… Continue reading People are the weakest link in data breaches, but can they be held accountable?