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How Cyber Crimes Pose A Threat To Your Business
In this post, we are going to look at the threat of cybercrimes and how they could affect your business. We’ll address what makes them such a threat and what you can do to prevent them. We’ll even show you how you can prepare for the worst and how crisis management training can make sure your team is equipped to handle a crisis should one arise.
What Are Cyber Crimes And How Do They Affect You?
Cybercrimes, as the name suggests, are crimes which involve computers and a network. The computer can be used to commit the crime, can be the target of the crime or both. As a business, you are likely to hold a lot of information. This data can be valuable if resold on the dark web, making your business a prime target for data theft cybercrimes. Email addresses, payment details and more – it’s all worth something to someone. Whether it’s as simple as stealing card details and money, or personal information to be reused as part of a scam people stand to make money off your data if you don’t protect it.
How Can you Protect Yourself?
There are plenty of ways you can improve your data protection. Firstly, start with secure passwords. Don’t make passwords something obvious. Change them periodically and don’t repurpose the same password across multiple accounts. Complex passwords are harder to figure out and regularly changing them makes any accidental slip up revealing you now old password redundant. Repurposing the same passwords makes you as strong as your weakest link. Sure, one system may be secure but if you use the same password on something else with weaker security you have now left both accounts vulnerable.
Passwords are a great starting point but if you are serious about data protection there are many services available which you should investigate. You can have penetration testing which is where ethical hackers attempt to hack your app, website or system in order to identify weaknesses. If these ethical hackers can breach your security s to can cybercriminals use their findings to make your cybersecurity stronger.
Finally, training is essential. One of the biggest risk factors when it comes to cyberattacks is people. Correctly training your employees on cybersecurity and proper data protection protocol will reduce the risk of falling victim to cybercrime.
PR And Crisis Management
Staff need training on more than just data protection though. If your preventative measures don’t do the trick or you fall victim to an attack before you are able to implement the new security measures, you could face a potentially huge PR disaster. In this case, the cybersecurity ship has sailed, of course, you want to protect yourself from future attacks but right now you need to manage the crisis. In this event, your staff need to be correctly trained on crisis management or risk making the situation worse. At Kiasu Crisis Management, we offer crisis management training for when the worst-case scenarios show up. It’s easy to go into a panic when you are hit by a cyberattack and are facing backlash but through crisis management training, you will know exactly how to act. You will know everyone’s role and will be able to remain level-headed.
In summary, cybercrime is a very real threat and your business is a prime target. Thankfully there are cybersecurity measures you can implement to reduce your risk. If, however, you still fall victim to an attack and must face unhappy customers, clients and partners you’ll want your team to be trained to manage the bad PR and navigate you through the turbulent time.
Face To Face Vs Online Training
Businesses are constantly trying to upskill their workers. Employees undergo all manner of training from earning job-specific qualifications to crisis management training. This training is essential to building a strong and competent workforce and being able to tackle the many challenges businesses face. Challenges such as whether to train your staff face to face or through online training. Well, perhaps you don’t need training on deciding what training is best for you, but this guide will certainly help. If employees are to fully utilise their training then the training needs to be delivered effectively and, with this guide, we will help you decide which delivery method is most effective for you; face to face or online.
Face To Face Training
Face to face training can occur at your workplace or a training centre or anywhere else for that matter. If the trainers and trainees are in the same room – it is face to face training.
Face to face training allows participants to exchange ideas and to ask the trainers question in real-time. This enables a more personal training which addresses your specific needs and enables the trainers to make sure everyone fully understands what they are being taught. If one person has a question there’s a chance other people are thinking it too, in a face to face setting everyone gets to hear the answer whilst with online training only those with the initiative or confidence to ask benefit from the question.
Face-to-face training also enables the trainer to tailor the training to the individual business whereas online training is typically more standardised. Crisis management training for example which needs to account for a selection of bespoke elements such as your office building and team structure should be delivered in person. Training which requires demonstrations and may need someone to check employees are implementing training correctly, such as first aid training, should also be delivered face to face.
Online Training
Online training (sometimes called e-learning) is any training that is delivered online. This training can be live though is often delivered through a series of pre-recorded videos. They are often made available 24/7 which is useful if you need to change your learning schedule or revisit sections of the training. However, no matter how many times you revisit the training the content won’t change. If you have a burning question there may be no way to have it answered by the trainer (or at least not promptly).
These training courses are usually watched in isolation whereas face to face training is more likely to be delivered to a group. This isolation means a little more motivation is required on the trainee’s behalf. If you’re a social person that likes to bounce ideas off people, then online training might not be the right choice for you. If you also like to have your progress monitored as you go and like seeking feedback then you might find e-learning doesn’t suit your learning style. People face a similar problem if the training has practical application as there is no one to check you have fully grasped the ideas taught and are effectively implementing them with the correct technique.
There is a place for both types of learning. Online works well for a standardised, matter of fact, training which require minimal tailoring. If there is a lot of visuals such as graphs charts, or software tutorials then online training has a lot to offer. However, if the training requires a more bespoke approach, face-to-face training will enable your employees to receive more optimal advice tailored to them and their needs.