Building A Security Mindset

When it comes to data privacy and security, employees expect their employers to safeguard them from malicious attacks.

Are your employees cyber savvy?

That’s a nice idea but keeping your organization’s data and documents protected requires a team effort—extending beyond the IT department down to every department’s printers, copiers and faxes, and each employee’s desktop and mobile device.

Security breaches have been on the rise, at increasing costs to organizations. Headline-grabbing breaches are often aided and abetted by a harried staffer who:

• Falls for a phishing scam and gives up credentials and other data that provides easy access to a network, data and documents.
• Unleashes malware and ransomware with a single click on a link or attachment.
• Hands over bank account information or makes direct payments to cybercriminals impersonating legitimate executives and vendors.
• Exposes trade secrets and other sensitive information by leaving important papers at a printer.
• Creates a gateway for hackers by leaving a network- or internet-connected device unsecured.