Do you remember the effort that George, Brad and the gang had to go to when they bypassed the casino security systems in Oceans 11? … and that was 22 years ago 😳
Last month all it took to take down the MGM casino in Las Vegas was a 10 minute phone call to the IT helpdesk pretending to be a new start that couldn’t get logged in – oops!
How short and boring would that movie be? But it does highlight something that we are all guilty of.
That is our reliance on the latest shiny tech to protect us from cyber attacks. Attacks are becoming more sophisticated, and so we look for advances in technology to tackle this.
Somehow while we are all getting giddy at the prospect of AI being built into our favourite security tool, we forget that people are in fact the most vulnerable part of our IT system.
A recent IBM report found that 95% of cyber attacks were largely down to human error. It makes sense, since almost every type of attack at some point involves a human being at your organisation, and therefore an opportunity to stop it.
It’s certainly not as sexy as implementing some high tech AI engine to oversee our systems, but shouldn’t we be spending some time protecting our people?
As humans, making mistakes is just a part of life, an important part of learning and growing. But with organised criminals using social engineering techniques to attack businesses by taking advantage of human error, we need to up our game and prepare our staff.
At the very least, you could do worse than to share this post with your team, or encourage them to watch this video series …
https://lnkd.in/eaZrGweR
But if you really want to protect your staff, then you should invest in ‘Security Awareness Training’, which drip feeds short bite-sized training videos like the ones in the link above to keep staff on high-alert. A good SAT solution will also deliver scheduled dummy phishing emails to test and monitor how well the training is being taken onboard.
We like to deliver this training to all of our clients. It’s just part of our standard setup these days and I think it should be part of yours. Think of it like installing antivirus on your staff 😁
If you would like to chat to us about this, send me a message, email [email protected] or give me a call on 02890 024443.
Stay safe!
