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Employee Education Improves Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity is an important topic for any business operating in the 21st century. While there are some basic and obvious steps you can take to help protect your company, like antivirus protection, network firewalls and regular system maintenance, other steps aren’t so obvious.

Educating Employees

Start by properly educating your employees. Remember, you’re not just educating them on the topic of general IT or even cybersecurity. Instead, you need to teach them about the specific issues their machines face and the potential hacks they might encounter in the field. Since they’re the ones who are most often on the frontlines, it makes sense to provide them with a comprehensive education on the subject.

Unfortunately, many companies aren’t equipped to offer this kind of training. In this case, try to partner with a local community college or school to hold training sessions at a discounted rate. While it may require a small investment to begin, the final results will be well worth it.

Restricting Access

It’s also important to restrict access to your company’s network. This includes individual workstations – like the ones your employees use – as well as local servers and remote hardware. While localized networks give you much greater control, they often require onsite administrators and technicians to ensure day-to-day efficiency.

On the other hand, remote systems may be exposed to hackers or would-be cyber criminals through no fault of your own. If you opt for offsite or remote infrastructure, always make sure you’re working with a well-known and reputable company.

Password Requirements

You’ll also want to have some amount of control over your company’s system passwords, as well as those of your employees. You don’t need to know the specific passwords of your employees, but establishing a clear set of rules helps them create strong passwords.

Requiring the use of special characters, numbers or capital letters, for example, is a great way to throw off automated password hacks. Regularly changing passwords is also beneficial for both your employees and your company’s primary database server, as would-be hackers won’t be able to use old or outdated login information to gain unauthorized access.

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