Security Awareness Training
Cybersecurity education and training for employees is necessary for businesses to stay secure. DIGIGUARD will educate your employees about cybersecurity, IT security best practices and regulatory requirements that apply to your data storage and handling. Our team of experts will train your employees on a variety of business security, privacy topics and behaviors. We will educate, encourage and empower your employees to reduce risk and adopt a cybersafe culture. Our awareness training consultants will:
- Understand your security policy, data risks and training goals
- Identify industry compliance and audit standards for your business
- Identify vendor/partner cybersecurity requirements
- Identify current employee baseline awareness of regulations and cybersecurity and focus on areas of greatest need
- Customize training program methods and messages for your corporate culture, departments and roles
- Review results and provide guidance for strategy
Security Awareness Training Content
DIGIGUARD will build a security awareness and training program that increases the understanding of potential risks and teaches your employees how to avoid these risks. We will help employees keep your data, systems, and networks more secure. Here are some of the training topics our team of experts can customize for your organization:
- Impact of unauthorized access to data or facilities
- Phone voice and text threats
- Credit card and financial data regulations and security
- Email security and avoiding risk
- Printer, fax, mail and clean desktop security practices
- Safe disposal of data
- Removable device security
- Security for mobile, BYOD, portable devices and working remotely
- Wireless/WiFi security
- Incident and suspicious behavior reporting procedures and requirements
- Strong passwords and protecting access credentials
- Physical site security, shoulder surfing, holding doors, dumpsters
- Secure browsing
- Secure social media use
- Social engineering attacks
- Company cybersecurity policy
Security Awareness and Compliance
We can help train your employees to comply with different government and industry regulations, such as HIPAA, FISMA, PCI, or Sarbanes-Oxley. In many cases, businesses must provide security awareness training to employees to meet regulatory requirements. DIGIGUARD experts will educate your team on changes to laws and requirements and how those changes affect your organization’s compliance. Proof of training can also help you comply with third-party vendor and partner requirements.
Security Awareness Improvement for Small Business
Relevant, engaging training is the best way to arm end-users to be your first line of defense. Regular, measurable training for employees can significantly reduce the risk of breaches and cyberattacks and protect your organization’s reputation. Our consultants will walk through the training results and help you make informed decisions about where to focus future efforts. We will help you target areas of security risk, and help you attain these data protection and security goals:
- Improved understanding of potential threats and risks to sensitive and valuable data
- Improved time between detection, reporting and remediation of cyberattacks
- Expanded employee understanding and awareness of potential threats
- Improved employee recognition of phishing and other social engineering attempts
- Increased employee knowledge of cybersecurity risks and financial and reputational consequences
- Decreased click-rates on phishing emails and increased reporting of malicious e-mails
- Broad adoption of consistent cybersecurity controls and practices
Ongoing training can take place at regular intervals, for post-incident review or for new hires. Contact DIGIGUARD today to schedule security awareness training for your team.