[BreachExchange] How to Teach Your Employees About Cybersecurity

[Audrey McNeil]

https://www.hackread.com/how-to-teach-your-employees-about-cybersecurity/

In the modern world, threats to security are no longer just physical. In
fact, cybersecurity has now become one of the most important parts to keep
a business and its employees safe. Without it, many businesses can find
themselves in trouble when they least expect.

Unfortunately, it can be a tricky area to understand, especially if your
business is not one that specializes in this area. This can make it a
difficult topic to get across to employees, where awareness is key to
cybersecurity working. Luckily, there are a few ways you can teach your
employees about cybersecurity, all of which are more accessible than the
last.

Use on-the-go training

It has long been established that traditional training methods in the
workplace are outdated and have limited success, which is why innovations
such as on-the-go training have become so vital to teaching employees about
important security features.

Such training can help you break down cybersecurity into digestible chunks,
where employees can learn at their own pace, and you can chart their
progress. You could even implement these methods into normal work tasks so
that cybersecurity becomes normalized. Yet to help people understand
cybersecurity, it is also wise to use technology.

Having this information available on mobile devices also highlights how
they can be safe with sensitive information in their daily lives, which
makes it easier for them to implement such practices at work. With much of
the workforce now being made up of millennials, this is a key part of
ensuring cybersecurity training is a success.

Create a video

Most people struggle to engage with large chunks of text, where important
information isn’t likely to be absorbed. In fact, lots of people benefit
more from visual and audio learning. This is why videos are often used as a
way of getting the key points across to employee, as people don’t have to
feel intimidated about learning lots of information in one go.

Having a company such as working-beautifully.co.uk to help you make such a
video means that staff members will find it easy to concentrate, while
complicated points can be simplified. Moreover, if you create a video that
is accessible all the time, employees can brush up on their knowledge of
cybersecurity whenever they need to.

Leave physical reminders around the office

When you go into an office, you may notice reminders about recycling,
turning off computers correctly, and cleaning up dotted all around the
place. Sometimes, having these physical reminders set up in the workplace
means that people never forget important information. When it comes to
cybersecurity, you could leave posters around the office room, or small
reminders on peoples’ desks about issues like password security.

If you want to embrace technology, you could try making use of instant
messaging to send out a reminder to every staff member at the start and end
of each day. If you don’t have the time or resources to do this, setting up
a Facebook Messenger chatbot can help you achieve the maximum awareness
among employees.
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