User Education and Password Management
A comprehensive approach to IT should include dynamic cybersecurity training and simulated phishing attacks to test and educate your workforce. As your employees encounter and learn from simulated phishing attacks, a good training tool adapts and deploys new attempts to fool employees with new spoofing, phishing, and social engineering attacks. When an employee is compromised by a simulated attack, having a solution in place that directs them additional training is an important step so your workforce gains the expertise needed to prepare for sophisticated attacks.
Additionally, requiring strong, complex passwords and employing a password manager is a low effort high reward step to protect your business. Some of the most common and infamous cases of cybersecurity breaches occurred not through brilliant feats of computer hacking, but through simple human error. Weak passwords, and particularly weak passwords that are reused across various platforms, are dangerous to sensitive information. When one service or web application is compromised, hackers will use the usernames and passwords they’ve mined there to try to exploit hundreds or even thousands of other services you might also use.
Using unique and complex passwords across the services you use is essential but also difficult to remember. That’s where a password manager comes in handy. A password manager is a web based application that will generate strong, complex passwords that aren’t repeated across different accounts, and saves them much more securely than a plain text document or handwritten can accomplish.
Contact Sequoya today to learn how you can arm your employees with the knowledge and tools to protect your business’s critical information.
