Modern companies need to have a forward thinking and proactive strategy to ensure that the front-line of their security - their employees - are ready to detect and action security risks when they appear. Effective training needs to be engaging and cover a wide variety of subjects. Employees should be aware of your organization's policies, but that's only the start of our list. It's important to build a training plan that informs staff of what you're aiming to protect, the vulnerabilities that enable your threats, what those vulnerabilities look like in practice, and how to act when they encounter these scenarios. This strategy builds ownership in the task of guarding your assets and gives your employees the upper hand.
GGR creates comprehensive training strategies that start with your company's policies, and tackle the highest risk vectors first - to optimize your time-to-value. Companies often choose to focus solely on a handful of highly-damaging electronic attack vectors, namely social engineering attacks over email, such as phishing. While these are important to cover, and end up first in the queue on many training engagements, it's important to not forget about other more rudimentary threat vectors such as propping doors open, and allowing someone to follow you into a secured space. After-all, it doesn't matter how secure you are from internet based attacks if someone can just walk into your facility and compromise your network from the inside.
The last and perhaps the most important tenet to employee preparedness is repetition. Training strategies that are cyclical, will help employees to retain critical information and keep these subjects top-of-mind. Employers who build employee ownership in the protection of their assets, and build strategies that are engaging, comprehensive, and cyclical will have the highest chance of stopping threats as they happen and have a greater piece-of-mind over their intellectual property, assets, and reputations.
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