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| Source |  AlienVault Blog |
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| Identifiant | 2175341 |
| Date de publication | 2021-01-12 11:00:00 (vue: 2021-01-12 11:05:32) |
| Titre | Why cybersecurity awareness is a team sport |
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This blog was written by an independent guest blogger.
Cybersecurity may be different based on a person's viewpoint. One may want to simply protect and secure their social media accounts from hackers, and that would be the definition of what cybersecurity is to them. On the other hand, a small business owner may want to protect and secure credit card information gathered from their point-of-sale registers and that is what they define as cybersecurity.
Despite differences in implementation, at its core, cybersecurity pertains to the mitigation of potential intrusion of unauthorized persons into your system(s). It should encompass all aspects of one’s digital experience--whether you are an individual user or a company.
Your cyber protection needs to cover your online platforms, devices, servers, and even your cloud storage. Any unprotected area of your digital journey can serve as an exploit point for hackers and cyber criminals intent on finding vulnerabilities.
People assume that it is the responsibility of the IT Department to stop any intrusion. That may be true up to a certain point, cybersecurity responsibility rests with everyone, in reality.
Cybersecurity should be everybody’s business.
The cybersecurity landscape is changing. With 68% of businesses saying that their cybersecurity risks have increased, it is no wonder that businesses have been making increased efforts to protect from, and mitigate attacks.
During the height of the pandemic, about 46% of the workforce shifted to working from home. We saw a surge in cybersecurity attacks - for example, RDP brute-force attacks increased by 400% around the same time.
This is why cybersecurity must be and should be everybody’s business. According to the 2019 Cost of Cybercrime Study, cyberattacks often are successful due to employees willingly participating as an internal actors or or employees and affiliates carelessly clicking a link by accident.
Sadly, it is still happening today. Unsuspecting employees can be caught vulnerable and cause a corporate-wide cyberattack by opening a phishing email or bringing risks into the company’s network in a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) system.
Just a decade ago, Yahoo experienced a series of major data breaches, via a backdoor to their network system established by a hacker (or a group of hackers). Further digital forensic investigation shows the breach started from a phishing email opened by an employee.
Another example was Equifax when it experienced a data breach in 2017 and was liable for fines amounting to $425 million by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
Companies continue to double up on their investments in cybersecurity and privacy protection today to ensure that incidents like these do not happen to their own networks. But a network is only as strong as its weakest link. Hackers continue to innovate, making their attacks more and mo |
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| Tags | Ransomware Data Breach Malware Vulnerability Guideline |
| Stories | Equifax Equifax Yahoo Yahoo |
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