Credit: putilov_denis/Adobe Stock Security Awareness Training: It's Time to Elevate Its Importance In Your Information Security Program
With the threat landscape changing quickly, security awareness training should include more than just a click-through video. There needs to be a focus from leadership on protecting firm assets and a near constant diligence on ensuring users know and understand the risks and how they might be compromised.
August 27, 2024 at 12:08 PM
5 minute read
What You Need to Know
- As threat actors continue to evolve, so does the tooling that protects a firm's environment.
- In addition to training, security advisories should be distributed on a regular basis, and security awareness should be a topic at every large meeting or gathering.
- Information security training, backed up by a culture of security awareness, can be a powerful tool to reduce your threat landscape.
As threat actors continue to evolve, so does the tooling that protects a firm's environment. End point detection and response tooling (EDR) can identify threats and even quarantine a device without intervention from a person. Firewalls can inspect traffic as it enters the firm's domain and block malicious-looking domains and addresses, and multifactor authentication can stop 99.9% of credential-based account attacks.
So why, in the American Bar Association Cybersecurity TechReport, did 29% of respondents answer affirmatively that they'd experienced a security breach in the last year?
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