Cybersecurity culture

Cybersecurity is intrinsically challenging — In modern business and social environment, what appears to be a well-designed network strategy can be undone by a single weak point created by either device malfunctioning or compromised human persuasion.

One of the best ways for an organization to reduce cyber risk is to build a sound cybersecurity culture. This requires creating a mindset in employees to know that the risk is real and that their daily actions can activate that risk

It is believed that strongest link breaks at the weakest point. Nevertheless, cultivating and maintaining good cybersecurity culture like Access Controls, Password Hygiene and Security Awareness training can go a long way in making a potential attacker to look the other way after futile efforts to compromise cultured employees in a well-maintained network systems.

Some examples of a security culture includes:

• Understanding the difference between a strong and weak password, and change passwords regularly without being asked.

• Able to know how to identify potential threats, like phishing emails, and immediately report them to the security team.

• Involving cybersecurity leaders to investigate vendors before signing a contract with them.

• Ensuring that corporate login credentials are not used for non-business-related services.

• Able to discourage the share of passwords, door codes, keycards and the likes because they can easily fall into the wrong hands.

• No one should feel that he or she is above cybersecurity rules, regardless of duties or seniority.