The Importance Of Cybersecurity Awareness

Cybersecurity is a big priority for most organizations today, but the reality is that many have failed to implement fundamental cybersecurity policies and procedures, leaving their businesses exposed to potential cyber attacks.

Why is Cybersecurity Important?

A variety of massive cyber-attacks have dominated the news headlines over the last few years, one of them being a serious distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that temporarily shut down a corporate systems and compromise customer data. In South Africa, many public and private entities including banks and other major organisations across the country have had their operations disrupted by such attacks

As businesses rely more and more on the Internet as a way of storing and transmitting valuable and sometimes confidential information, these kinds of attacks should serve as a wake-up call for those who have not taken the necessary measures to protect their data.

The Need for Cybersecurity Compliance Training

Clicking on links in phishing emails, opening attachments from unknown senders, using weak passwords, these are just the most obvious examples of how individual team members’ actions can create vulnerabilities.

Educating employees and then regularly emphasizing their individual responsibility can go a long way towards reducing the organization’s risk.

But while that’s an important step, it still only addresses part of the challenge.

True cybersecurity teamwork requires that every group, not just every individual within the organization assess and address its respective impact.