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Nowadays, companies not only invest in IT security solutions, but also in the training of their employees with the goal of making them more conscious of security issues. Security awareness covers various training measures which sensitize a company's employees to IT security issues.
The platform provides complete visibility of all connected systems and the scalability of the software makes it easy to grow with the changing needs of a business. Pro-Watch Intelligent Command is a web-based user interface that provides organizations complete situational awareness of their security system to protect people, property and assets.
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare professionals have increased their reliance on the internet to carry out their job. Healthcare under attack: What about cyber awareness?
CIOs are prioritizing identity and access management over endpoint security and security awareness training in 2020, according to a Hitachi ID survey. Their goals reflect these new priorities: 86% said they're aiming to improve security standards across their environment, while 80% are making their tech stack more flexible for remote and on-premise users.
"Great security awareness training, that is part of a healthy cyber security culture and that is aimed at encouraging positive security behaviours, is essential. The problem is that awareness-raising training has a history of being dry, dull, technically-focused and ineffective," Dr. Jessica Barker, Co-CEO of Cygenta, told us in a recent interview. In order to select the right security awareness solution for your business, you need to think about a number of factors.
The increasing number of sophisticated cyber threats will lead to a rise in demand for Managed Detection and Response solutions from small and medium businesses. "MDR providers offer organizations the technology, process, and people to enable the proactive monitoring of their customer security environment and 24/7 threat detection to help mitigate security breaches, even more so during COVID-19.".
Small steps can greatly increase the overall security of IoT. A better IoT security story has to be one of the most urgent priorities in all of technology. Various research has shown that security is the number one concern for enterprise IoT customers and that they would move faster on IoT programs if their concerns were allayed.
In light of Mental Health Awareness Week, and as the discussion around employee wellbeing becomes louder and louder amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, we spoke with five cybersecurity experts to get their thoughts on how organisations can minimise the negative mental and physical impacts on newly-remote employees. "Rob Shaw, Managing Director, EMEA, Fluent Commerce, adds:"Statistics reveal that 1 in 6 of us will have experienced a mental health problem in the past week alone.
The SANS Institute has kindly stepped in to help, with several free-of-charge resources. The SANS Security Awareness Work-from-Home Deployment Kit is a set of guides on how to raise awareness to secure a remote workforce - be they actual children, or staff who require the same level of patience and explanation in order to work safely online.
MediaPRO, a leading provider of security and privacy training solutions, has announced a new partnership with BSI, the international business improvement company. The new alliance will enable BSI to offer its clients personalized privacy awareness and regulation specific training programs that can be tailored to their risk management priorities.