The world of cybersecurity is evolving at a breakneck pace, and your employees play a key part in protecting your organization from evolving cyberattacks. By teaching your employees the threat of cyberattacks through cybersecurity best practices, tips, and warning signs - you can help mitigate the risk of cyberattacks on the business.
The FBI reports a 67% year over year increase in cybersecurity disaster events. Companies that suffer major data loss are deeply impacted; according to the University of Texas, 43% never re-open and 29% close within 2 years. All employees within an organization are not responsible for the technical aspect of cybersecurity, but there are simple actions they can take to help protect the organization. But, it is the job for IT teams to make employees in other departments aware of the threats and provide instructions.
Phishing is a type of online scam where an attacker impersonates legitimate organizations via email, texts, or ads to trick a victim into revealing sensitive information to the attacker, or to deploy malicious software on the victim's device. The cost of a phishing attack has quadrupled over the past 6 years - now costing large U.S. companies $14.8 million annually.
" 54% of Ransomware attacks come from phishing."
Ransomware is a type of malicious software that encrypts your files and folders and then demands a ransom to be paid. By not paying the ransom, the data can be leaked to the dark web and sold. Veeam Software's 2022 Data Protection Trends report found that 76% of the 3,393 surveyed organizations suffered at least one ransomware attack:
"42% were user actuated - meaning a user clicked on a malicious link often from a spam email. 23% came from a credential compromise."
Net3 Technology Cybersecurity Services - Net3 offers a suite of cybersecurity technologies and tools to help you build a complete protection plan: Cloud Backup, Disaster Recovery Solutions, Security Vulnerability and Patch Management, End User and Authorized Use Management, OS Based EDR and Endpoint Security Solutions, Network Based Detection and Response, and Data Prevention.
National Institute of Standards and Technology - NIST maintains a cybersecurity framework that defines the essential controls and policies that need to be in place.
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency - CISA is a government organization that is there to help you. They offer items like free vulnerability scanning for critical industries and government.