Eight ways to engage employees in cybersecurity

Cyberattacks have increased by an astonishing 48 per cent since March 2020, with bad actors mainly targeting remote workers. Given that all successful attacks must be reported publicly, under the Notifiable Data Breaches Scheme (NBD), it is crucial that all employees are engaged in cybersecurity. Here are eight tips to protect your valuable business data, and avoid an embarrassing breach:

With employees working across multiple devices and locations, organisations need virtual firewalls that authenticate individual connections and transactions. Identity-based security and multifactor authentication can fill the gap when employees are not protected by the corporate firewall.

Use threat protection software to protect employees and build email cyber resilience against spam, malware, ransomware, and phishing attacks.

Legacy systems often allow cybercriminals easy access into organisations. To keep your people and business data safe, ensure security is immediately updated with new software or patches as soon as they are released.

A dedicated IT security expert keeps cybersecurity top of mind for the organisation and its employees and helps guard against emerging cyberthreats. It’s not always easy to find someone with the right skillset, therefore outsourcing this to a Managed Services Provider is an easy way to add an experienced cybersecurity expert to your IT team, without the overhead.

To manage growing amounts and types of organisational data while ensuring compliance, use asecure data solvency and archiving platform.

A holistic approach that combines proactive and defensive security is the most effective. This includes staff training and identity management, vulnerability management, endpoint and application security, network & data protection, security monitoring & incident response.