October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, an annual observance run by the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) since 2004. Why? Because monetary losses by individuals and businesses from cybercrimes have nearly tripled since 2020.
What is a cybersecure culture? In basic terms, company leaders:
- Provision for expert resources inside and outside the firm’s physical and virtual borders, because cybercriminals respect neither of those boundaries.
- Invest in continual education for team members at all levels of the organization.
- Empower diligent defense by holding workers at all levels accountable to rigorous cybersecurity policies, processes and practices.
How can small to medium-sized business leaders promote a cybersecure culture? We endorse this approach:
- Create and strengthen security policies that cover device usage, network access privileges and breach response and recovery plans.
- Implement regular awareness and training programs that teach all employees vigilance is critical and time is of the essence.
- Monitor and measure network traffic and user behaviors to set benchmarks as a backdrop for identifying irregularities and outliers – potential alerts to malicious activities.
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