As cyber criminals have increased their activity over the last year, no business – however small – is immune from an IT security threat.
Protecting your business involves a number of layers of security, including:
- Anti-virus software
- An effective firewall
- Strong passwords
- Multi-factor authentication for logging in to your systems, including email accounts (usually involving a code which needs to be entered, as well as a password)
- Ensuring that the people in your organisation are regularly educated about current threats and how to avoid taking action that puts the business at risk
This last point is often not given the importance it requires. There may be a number of reasons for this – including apathy, a fear that training will be expensive, or perhaps a feeling that “it won’t happen to us”.
However, once a business has lost data or money to a cyber criminal, this view quickly changes. The importance of the human action, when it comes to IT security, is then a key priority!
There are several online training solutions available to help businesses. The most effective are those which deliver a continuous programme, rather than a one-off training module which may subsequently be forgotten.
A new service now available from HJS Technology, provides security awareness training which is unique to each user, according to their requirements. It comes for a small monthly subscription and features include:
- An initial online quiz to gauge the areas of individuals’ knowledge / security awareness
- From that, a user-tailored training programme which comprises of regular interactive courses and videos
- Reports for the business owner, including risk scores that identify how vulnerable your organisation is, to potential actions by your employees
- Simulated phishing attacks if desired, to assess what your team would do, when faced with an approach from a cyber criminal
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