Book Kathy for Your Next Cyber Awareness Training Event

Cyber security awareness has never been more important to businesses than it is today.

It helps minimize security risks, and it complements the technical security response mechanisms utilized to protect most organizations.

Because employees have access to the corporate network, they are often targeted by cyber criminals who would rather go after a human target than a technical one.

To help safeguard from an attack organizations should ensure that employees have access to information security policy, privacy policy, and acceptable use policy, and, they should help them understand their role in following this policy.

Reducing cyber risk takes diligence and steady monitoring against bad actors who use sophisticated and manipulative tactics techniques and procedures (TTPs) of social engineering. Perpetrators often attack and weaken their target’s state of mind using advanced schemes to gain access to corporate information. An infiltration could also involve a ransom demand, snooping into intellectual property, and exfiltration of data.

Businesses and organizations should address cyber risks by:

• identifying their vulnerabilities
• determining the value of their information assets
• identifying the location of the most sensitive data
• analyzing and securing computer systems
• planning recovering strategies in the event of an attack

These important measures require time, energy, and commitment. Just as importantly, organizations should make serious investment into building the capacity of their employees to reduce and recognize risk in cyber.

Education and awareness are vital to securing networks, systems and processes.

This improves employees ability to recognize social engineering, spearfishing, and business email compromise (BEC).

Education reduces liability for the organization, minimizes reputation damage in the event of a data breach, and eases downtime in the event of an attack. It’s advantageous to introduce the corporate and IT security team to workers as this helps create a spirit of information sharing and ownership in the overall safety and security of the workplace.

By harnessing the collective willpower, a company can ensure that everyone in the organization understands workplace information security policy. Employees then understand their expectations and their role and responsibility and helping to keep the assets safe and secure.

Kathy customizes proactive cyber awareness training sessions that will fit your budget, schedule or theme.

Sessions help build knowledge about cyber security for workers from the frontline to members of the executive team. Kathy’s extensive experience in customizing, developing and delivering critical crime prevention information in an interesting, unique and dynamic manner
compliments any security program.

Contact Kathy for your next luncheon learn event or reach out to her through the Speaker’s Bureau of Canada at events@speakerscanada.com.