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Delete accounts associated with former employees or temporary contractors; you may prefer to disable access, rather than delete accounts.
Be vigilant for failed logins and multiple attempts to access deactivated accounts.
Profile user behavior so logins at odd times of the day or night, or logins from new devices, are flagged.
Enforce multi-factor authentication wherever possible, ensure passwords and usernames are fully encrypted, and configure and authenticate centrally.
Careful account monitoring is especially important at large organizations where breaches are more than twice as likely.
Take a moment to remind employees not to click on suspicious email file attachments, even if they seem to be from a family member.
Perform gap analysis to find where employees lack the skills required to implement your cybersecurity plans and policies. You have to know where they are going wrong before you can steer things right.
Provide relevant training via outside experts, or conferences and online courses. Make learning modules bite-sized and easy to understand. They must be updated to reflect the latest threats and employees should complete them every few months.
Senior management may be resistant, but they actually pose the greatest risk if a phishing attack (targeting the C-level) is successful, so they should complete the same training.
As a way to test how porous employees can be, test staff with a fake phishing email. A bank did this after suffering a data theft, yet 20 percent of its employees clicked on the bogus email.
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