Data Awareness Is Key to Data Security

Traditional data-leak prevention is not enough for businesses facing today’s dynamic threat landscape. Data attacks reached an all-time high in 2019 as we continued to transform our lives digitally — moving our work, health, financial, and social information online. In response, businesses must meet hefty data and information protection regulatory and compliance requirements. There’s no
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Review: How CybeReady delivers targeted, timely security awareness training

All of the cybersecurity programs that we have ever evaluated as part of this series have had one thing in common. None of them ever claimed to be completely, 100% effective in every case. And even if they somehow achieved that goal for a brief snapshot in time, hackers are always advancing their tactics and
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Security Practitioners Share Tips For Cyber Security Awareness Month

An Engaged Workforce Makes The Difference For Cyber Hygiene Only so much can taught about cyber hygiene through annual security training in the organization’s break room. As part of Cyber Security Awareness Month, we have collected tips and best practices from security leaders. More importantly, these are the insights that make a difference in having
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How to Catch a Phish: Where Employee Awareness …

Advanced phishing techniques and poor user behaviors that exacerbate the threat of successful attacks. Teaching employees how to spot malicious emails is one of many steps toward keeping phishing attacks at bay. As attackers adopt more advanced techniques, it’s imperative teams also learn how the behavior inside and outside their inboxes can put a business
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7 Tips for an Effective Employee Security Awareness …

Breaches and compliance requirements have heightened the need for continuous and effective employee training, security experts say. 1 of 8 Image Source: Shutterstock Employee security awareness training programs have become a necessity for organizations in recent years because of the high percentage of data breaches caused by careless and negligent workers. Phishing, in particular, continues
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How Awareness, Attention Can Improve Cyber Security

October is Cyber Security Month, and I’m writing this on a plane returning home from the AT&T Business Summit in Grapevine, Texas, where I spoke about diversity and inclusion in the space. One of the most important conversations I had at the conference wasn’t as a panelist alongside global thought leaders, but rather with Rosa
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