Good cybersecurity – top tips and advice
For European Cybersecurity Month, we have been posting daily tips on our LinkedIn and Twitter feeds. This post rounds up the advice from our October blogs into one post for ease of reference. We hope you find the advice useful. Our first week of tips focused mainly around good cyber hygiene. To clarify, that is […]
How to build a positive cybersecurity culture – Part 2
In part one of this blog, I looked at why positive cybersecurity culture can be more effective and lasting than programmes or time-limited initiatives. At a practical level, I looked at the first three steps to putting that culture in place. It starts with the importance of leading by example and the often unspoken signals […]
How to build a positive cybersecurity culture – Part 1
Cybersecurity culture in a workplace is positively promoting and embedding safe cybersecurity practices. It’s proactively educating employees on potential cybersecurity threats and on the right behaviour to mitigate such threats going forward. There are lots of good reasons for having a cybersecurity culture within your organisation, here’s two: The risks and threats are now so […]
Teach staff to steer clear of phishing hooks with awareness training
One of the most important steps for improving security is to understand where you’re starting from first. That covers technical questions like what systems you run or where you store data. Then there’s the all-important human factor: how much do the organisation’s people know about security risks like phishing and malware? Research repeatedly tells us […]
Time to see security training as an investment, not a cost
Having finished 2017 with a blog about allocating security spending, we’re starting the new year on a similar note. Specifically, it’s about investing in security awareness training. Harvard Business Review argued that better training is the best security investment a business can make. Its choice of word was deliberate: businesses need to see security training […]
Philip Lieberman: Companies Need Better Awareness and Better Trained IT Staff To Deal With APTs And Other Threats
A new survey from Lieberman Software Corporation has revealed that 78% of IT security professionals retain their faith in firewalls and anti-malware tools, saying they are robust enough to combat modern advanced persistent threats. Such findings, Lieberman says, highlight the fact that while cybercrime continues to rise, many organisations are still dangerously relying on outdated perimeter security solutions […]
Report: Only 44% Of Employees Receive Security Awareness Training
A new survey from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) reveals the relationship between employees’ approaches to information security decisions and the risks posed to the organisation. The poll encompassed over 600 employees from a range of businesses employing less than 100 staff, up to organisations with over 20,000 employees. With the aim of understanding security awareness […]
Free Security Awareness Video
Watchguard have produced a useful security awareness video to help educate end users on how to select secure passwords. It follows the travails of Bud as he tries to select a secure password from the obvious and insecure one he already has. A challenge I am sure many users face. Bud Logs In is provided free […]
Free Privacy Awareness Material Available
The “Privacy in the 21st Century” Blog, created as part of Global Security Week 2007 has announced that free privacy awareness material is available on the Global Security Week website. the free materials include posters, briefings and links to other sites relating to privacy issues. Well worth a visit if privacy is of concern to […]