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Despite growing innovations to combat cybercrime, there is a consensus amongst most security professionals that it is not a matter of if you get breached – it’s a matter of when. If you are the kind of business leader who thinks of cybercrime having an endpoint, you are wrong. Defeating cybercrime is a continuing process and will be for the foreseeable future. In this article, I’ve listed five cyber security best practices for you to consider.
This is unlikely the first time you’ve stumbled upon a cyber security best practices list before, but I wanted this list to address the most recent evolution in cybercrime.
I’m talking about the evolution of ransomware from traditional to new applications, the cyber security implications to the increase in remote workers, the consumer privacy implications in the face of new regulation and the growing emergence of machine learning and other technological innovations.
The importance of creating a cyber security culture
At the moment, workplaces are changing drastically, we are seeing a rise in things like people wanting to work from home or use employee-owned devices within a business (BYOD). Traditional security measures often prove ineffective in protecting data on these endpoints.
Like it not, technology is changing the way people work, instead of imposing arbitrary restrictions on new devices and risk forcing employees to work around the IT department. It would make sense to think how you can cope with change.
A modern security culture should adapt to this and liberate workers to work the way they want.
A good way to liberate is to educate. CIOs and IT leaders need to make sure that all employees across an organisation are aware of the potential threats that they could face, whether it’s a phishing email, sharing passwords or using an insecure network.One little meeting is not going to cut it, cyber attacks come in a variety of forms and are evolving constantly, everyone needs to be kept up to date on what to look out for.
Read more: 5 cyber security best practices for 2018: From culture to coping with BYOD
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