Keeping Employees Cyber-Aware Keeps the Enterprise Cyber-Secure
Improving employees’ cybersecurity awareness often hinges on communicating those initiatives into risks they understand.
There’s a C- on your report card, but you’re not alone: The 2017 Global Cybersecurity Assurance Report Card found that the world’s information security practitioners gave global cybersecurity readiness an overall score of 70 percent – a six-point drop over 2016. What’s causing this lack of confidence? IT security practitioners cited the overwhelming cyber threat environment, a lack of visibility into the network (impacted by BYOD or shadow IT), and low security awareness among employees as the top three challenges facing them today.
While the average CISO or CSO may not be able to drastically reduce the cyber threat environment facing the enterprise, he or she can make a big difference when it comes to educating employees and getting buy-in from the ground up.