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Why Employees Need Cybersecurity Training

The biggest threat to your company’s cyber integrity comes from what your employees don’t know. They need to navigate the internet and handle incoming email to do their job yet many don’t know the basics about what is safe. When it comes to cybersecurity safety there are three types of employees and each type benefits from training in different ways.

By Kristin Kiewitz

Kristin Kiewitz, is a business analyst and researcher.

Three Types

There are three types of employees:

As a manager, you need a way to convert Type 1 and Type 2 employees into Type 3 employees and make sure that they all know what to watch put for.

Training By Type

While every employee needs to learn the fundamental concepts of cybersecurity protection, different employee types also need additional information. It’s particularly important to teach Type 1 employees that cyber-risk is very serious and that they need to take an active part in cyber attack prevention. Type 2 employees need to be reassured that with the right basic knowledge, they no longer need to lose productivity agonizing over what is safe. Teach them about:

Making It Work

Scheduling can be a problem when trying to deliver cybersecurity awareness training to every employee. While online training solves this problem, this raises the problems associated with managing employee engagement. To address this, choose a program that includes engagement management to confirm who has done training and with what result.

Engagement management can include:

Remember, training should not be a one-shot process. Training should be provided for all new hires and for everyone on an annual basis. The threats change so go for a company with the cybersecurity expertise to keep the course current.

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This article was published in the April 2024 edition of The TMC Advisor
- ISSN 2369-663X Volume:11 Issue:3

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