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Understanding Human Behavior is a Key to Security

Written by Corp-InfoTech | Mar 5, 2021 2:52:25 AM
There's only two types of companies, the ones that have been hacked and know it and the one that don't know they have been hacked yet.

Human behavior is a major key to security. Don’t delay security awareness training within your company. If you have done it in the last year it’s time to review with your human. As we have stated before, needs to be ongoing, but too much can be a bad thing. If you send an email every week your humans with not review or likely just delete the email.

43% of employees are not aware that clicking a suspicious link or opening an unknown attachment in an email is likely to lead to a malware infection *

Close to 50% of malicious email attachments are Microsoft files, often disguised as an invoice receipt**

Time to adjust human behavior at your company. CorpInfoTech is here to help you with securing your weakest links within you humans. A jump start can be with CorpInfoTech’s Phishing for Awareness Series but for a solid answer let CIT’s Security Awareness Training is for you!

The Aberdeen Group’s report Security Awareness Training: Small Investment, Large Reduction in Risk conducted a workshop with enterprise security leaders to find out why they invest in security awareness and training.

  • 91% use security awareness to reduce cybersecurity risk related to user behavior
  • 64% use it to change user behavior

Corporate Information Technologies provides small to mid-market organizations with expert I.T. services including compliance assessment, cybersecurity penetration tests, and comprehensive business continuity planning services. Corporate Information Technologies can help organizations, quantify, create, refine, and mitigate the risks presented by business threatening disasters in whatever form they may be disguised. 

*2020 State of Privacy and Security Awareness. **Internet Security Threat Report