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How to Design Cybersecurity Training for Employees: 4 Best Practices

Absorb LMS

Humans are less predictable than the technology your organization uses to prevent cybercrime, like firewalls. Exceeding regulatory requirements for annual training could significantly improve employee retention of information and secure behavior. Human behavior is more complex than just technical know-how.

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Protecting Your Digital Fort: Common Network Security Threats and How to Mitigate Them

Insightworks

To defend against DDoS attacks: Employ a DDoS protection service or firewall. Monitor network activity for unusual behavior. DDoS Attacks Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks overwhelm your network with traffic, causing it to crash. Configure your network to filter and block malicious traffic. Conduct periodic security audits.

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BEWARE THIS GAMIFICATION PITFALL

Learnnovators

Let’s take a look at a couple of good examples that use stories as such: For a gamified learning experience on IT security, an artificial infosec breach is created within the organization’s firewall. Also, we need to continue to hold them accountable for their learning (and behavior, where applicable).

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How to Be CyberSmart in a COVID-19 World

Avilar

Firewalls, networks, collaboration tools, and servers should all be configured to accept – and track – remote access. Do you provide firewalls and tech support for personal devices? By keeping the topic top of mind, you increase the chance that employees confidently follow CyberSmart behaviors. Engage device-level protection.

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How to make compliance training interesting for employees?

Creativ Technologies

For example, to elaborate on the importance of using credentials, it can be stated that any computer can’t be easily hacked when it has the credentials and firewalls. Employees can also be demonstrated the adverse impact of their non-compliance through scenario-based videos where a character pays for its ignorant behavior.

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The importance of general cyber security awareness

OpenSesame

Back when everyone still worked from an office, locked-down office networks and an on-site IT team could be counted on to bolster the organizational firewall. Network protection. Home networks, on the other hand, throw an extra wild card into the mix. The post The importance of general cyber security awareness appeared first on OpenSesame.

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Piecing together collaboration and cooperation

Clark Quinn

In this depiction,we see behaviors of effective collaboration within work groups, such as coaching each other, using good practices for brainstorming, the elements of a learning organization, being willing to admit to problems, and being willing to lose if you don’t lose the lesson.