The era of passive cybersecurity awareness training is over
Despite increased emphasis on cybersecurity from authorities and high-profile breaches, critical gaps in vulnerability management within organizations are being overlooked by …
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How to achieve and shore up cyber resilience in a recession
Today’s business leaders are grappling with two opposing challenges. On the one hand, present day global economic and recessionary pressures mean spending policies need to be …
Helping users and organizations build an instinctive data privacy habit
Each year at the end of January, internet users are deluged with advice on how to keep their data protected and reclaim their online privacy. What started as Data Privacy Day …
ENISA gives out toolbox for creating security awareness programs
The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) has made available Awareness Raising in a Box (AR-in-a-BOX), a “do it yourself” toolbox to help organizations …
How to improve secure coding education
Did you know that not one of the top 50 undergraduate computer science programs in the U.S. requires a course in code or application security for majors? Yet the threatscape …
False sense of safety undermines good password hygiene
LastPass released findings from its fifth annual Psychology of Password report, which revealed even with cybersecurity education on the rise, password hygiene has not …
Upgrade your security awareness efforts: Here’s how to start
October is Security Awareness Month, an exciting time as organizations around the world train people how to be cyber secure, both at work and at home. But what exactly is …
How to improve employees’ cybersecurity behavior
We already have cybersecurity behaviors we learned from elsewhere, especially those who have grown up with technology. Initially, cybersecurity starts from home and school, …
Microsoft Teams: A channel for sensitive business information sharing that needs better backup
Hornetsecurity has found an urgent need for greater backup for Microsoft Teams with 45% of users sending confidential and critical information frequently via the platform. …
To avoid insider threats, try empathy
In this interview with Help Net Security, Nathan Hunstad, Deputy CISO at Code42, explains the importance of addressing insider threats, how to make sure your employees are …
Tackling the dangers of internal communications: What can companies do?
In this interview for Help Net Security, Devin Redmond, CEO at Theta Lake, talks about the risk of internal communications and what companies can do to keep themselves safe. …
1 in 3 employees don’t understand why cybersecurity is important
According to a new Tessian report, 30% employees do not think they personally play a role in maintaining their company’s cybersecurity posture. What’s more, only 39% of …