The End User: Awareness | The Data Defender

The End User: Awareness | The Data Defender

Today on this episode of Data Defender I tell you the most common way an unauthorized user can gain access to your business. Hi my name is Renee Jones owner of DefenseNDepth. Welcome to Data Defender where our mission is to drive revenue and growth by reducing your vulnerabilities and risk and applying cybersecurity best practices. What I'd like to talk to you about today is the importance of awareness and training of your end-users. The end-user creates, modifies, deletes data many many times during the day. Since organizations are connected pretty much like spider webs and even within your organization one department depends on another. An end-user that is not trained in cyber security best practices could introduce vulnerabilities into your system. The best patching upgrades, new hardware, new software won't matter if an end-user is not trained in awareness of cyber security best practices and clicks on a malicious email. All of your efforts are done because they have introduced malware into your organization. Data is the prize for an unauthorized user. They don't need your servers. They don't need your firewalls. They can purchase those online. It's your data. It is the information about your business, your intellectual property, your users or employees mother's maiden name, social security number, date of birth that is what they are after. So awareness and training for the end-user is important so that the end-user can recognize when a business process is normal or when something just doesn't feel right. There's something out of the ordinary with awareness and training you empower your users to understand what a normal business processes and what is something that just doesn't look right and they may need to notify you or the IT department another component of awareness and training is getting your users to