What is a Cyber Awareness Training?
Cyber awareness training gives employees the tools and knowledge to avoid, identify, report and manage cybersecurity threats and strengthen your company’s ability to defend itself against a cyber attack. Cyber awareness training will cover elements such as identity theft, phishing, scams, viruses and malware – essentially anything your employees will likely encounter at work.
What are the benefits of conducting Cyber Awareness Training?
Cyber awareness training is a mechanism used to educate employees on the various cyber threats and how to protect themselves and their companies. We’ve summarised a few of the benefits of conducting cyber awareness training below:
Compliance
Cyber awareness training is necessary for some industries to comply with GDPR.
Minimise human error
Adequately trained employees are essential to effective security. Cyber awareness training instils the knowledge and confidence in employees to recognise security threats and how to respond and escalate the issue.
Auditing
ISO 27001 and many other security standards require training to ensure users are aware of the importance of cyber security.
Threat reduction
Cyber awareness training is vital in reducing the risks that could lead to cybersecurity threats or data breaches. Employees will be mindful of how to use technologies and applications used in the workplace. They will also be aware of information security best practices to ensure your employees and business is protected.
Financial protection
Security incidents or data breaches can be costly and take time to repair and reinstate normal business operations.
Avoid downtime
Cyber awareness training provides your employees with the knowledge they need to keep your business secure. Understanding cybersecurity principles means there is far less likelihood that a cyberattack will occur, and critical business systems can remain functional.
What steps are involved in Cyber Awareness Training?
In today’s world, cyber security threats pose a real danger to companies, and there is no better way to combat it than with cyber awareness training. Cyber awareness training is deliverable and customisable to different roles within your business, as each role will deal with various networks and systems. Cyber awareness training will give your employees the required tools and knowledge about cyber security to enable them to: identify and react to different threats and risks, deal with the threat or risk and know how to respond.
Discover the benefits of Cyber Awareness Training
Fusion Business Services have partnered with experts in cyber security who specialise in user awareness training for all employees, from office workers to IT personnel and executives. Our partners will deliver cyber awareness training that teaches your employees to deal with threats and stay safe.
To discover the benefits of cyber awareness training, please get in touch with us today by completing the short form on this page or call us on 0800 229 4020. We’ll pass your details over to our specialist partners, who will be in contact shortly.