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Corporate Angle

Ms. Ragini Mishra Senior Analyst in Northern Trust

Cyber Security Awareness

Cyber Security Awareness

Research suggests that human error is involved in more than 90% of security breaches. Security awareness training helps to minimize risk thus preventing the loss of PII, IP, and money or brand reputation. An effective awareness training program addresses the cyber security mistakes that employees may make when using email, the web and in the physical world such as tailgating or improper document disposal.

Cybersecurity awareness tips:

1) Set up a Formal Cybersecurity Training

Program

One of the most direct ways to increase cyber security awareness in any organization is to create a formal training program centered on cyber security practices. When an organization has a formal cyber security training program, there is little room for doubt that security awareness is an important issue to the larger organization—not to mention that the employees have been made aware of what they should and should not do.

In fact, starting a cyber-security training program helps to shore up one of the biggest network security vulnerabilities in any organization: the people who work for the organization. Insider threats consistently rank high on top cyber threat lists, as employees may accidentally fall for phishing attacks or similar social engineering attacks. In fact, according to Securitymagazine.com, “Financial pretexting and phishing represent 98 percent of