“You’re in the departure hall, the flight home is not boarding for another 30 mins. As you place your laptop bag down you spot a shiny new flash drive under the bench. Naturally being an intelligent, curious person anticipating a boring wait till your flight is called you slide your work laptop out and plug the USB drive in to have a look to see what it contains. Who knows? Perhaps you might be able to find out who it belongs to so you can do the right thing and pop in in the post to the unlucky person who dropped it?
During the post incident analysis of the security breach that encrypted the contents of your business’s network drive it was found that your machine was the source of the attack. The IT team managed to restore the server back to normal without resorting to paying the Ransom. Only half a day’s productivity for 30 staff was lost. Sadly, your only copy of the family holiday snaps under My Documents were permanently lost.”
I am sure you’ve worked out now that it is your employees who are the weak link in your IT Security and the costs can be significant. Social engineering is the number one security threat to any organization. The alarming growth in sophisticated cyberattacks makes this problem only worse, as cybercriminals go for the low-hanging fruit: employees. Numerous reports and white papers show organizations are exposed to massive increases in the number of cyberattacks over the past five years.
At Vertech IT Services we constantly work to close gaps and increasing the robustness of our client’s networks but we’ve realised that we need a way to massively & efficiently provide ongoing awareness training programs to the dynamic SMB sector with the least disruption to their business. We’ve found that solution in the company KnowBe4.com
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