Companies are in the midst of a “tsunami of employee turnover” with no signs of slowing. According to Fortune magazine, 40% of Americans are considering quitting their jobs. This trend – coined the Great Resignation – creates instability in organizations. High employee turnover increases security risks and companies are more vulnerable to human factors attacks around the world.
At Davos 2022, statistics link the Great Resignation unrest to the rise of new insider threats. Security teams are feeling the impact. It is even more difficult to keep up with the safety of your employees. Companies need a new approach to close loopholes and prevent attacks. This article will examine what your security teams must do within the new organizational dynamic to quickly and effectively address unique challenges.
Addressing your new insider threats
Implementing a successful security awareness program is more challenging than ever for your security team—new blood coming in causes cultural dissonance. Each new employee brings his own safety habits, behavior and ways of working. Changing habits is slow. However, companies do not have the luxury of time. They must get ahead of hackers to prevent attacks from new insider threats.
Make sure you address your organization’s high-impact security risks:
- Prevent data loss – When employees leave, there is a high risk of leaking sensitive data. Manage out of dorm and close dormant emails to prevent data loss.
- Maintain best practices – When new employees join the organization, even if safety training is done well, they are not equal to their peers. Unknown security practices can put the organization at risk.
- Provide friendly memories – With less staff, employees are overworked and under pressure. Safety can be “forgotten” or neglected in the process.
- Supports remote work – To support the rapid recruitment of employees, working from home is a must. The flexibility of remote work helps to attract and retain new employees.
- Train on the go – Remote work requires providing remote equipment and handling new employee behavior for natural distractions – on the go and at home.
5 Preventive Measures for High Impact in Your Organization
Security teams must protect companies against new phishing attempts within the high workforce. Hands-on security training is key to combating hackers. New techniques and practices are required to support remote work and new behavioral challenges, especially during times of high employee turnover. To be successful, your training must keep cyber awareness fresh for all staff. It should really transform the behavior of your new employees.
Here are five preventative measures to effectively protect your organization for cyber resilience:
Ensure all staff receive ongoing training
Security risks are constantly evolving and ever-present. All employees need to protect themselves from sophisticated phishing threats. It is even more complicated in the great resignation. With weak new links, your company is at the greatest risk. Gullible employees leave security ‘holes’ on the front lines of your organisation. Security teams are aware of the risks.
Research shows that companies should consistently train 100% of their staff every month. However, employees spend little time thinking about security.
Automated security awareness training like CybeReady makes it easier to manage security training for your entire staff.
- Instead of manual work, use new, in-depth BI data and reports to guide your training plan for new and experienced employees.
- Adjust the difficulty level by role, geography and risk, to flexibly control your different employee needs and vulnerabilities.
- Increase employee awareness of threats.
- Prevent hacker exploitation and emergency control with company leadership.
Target new employees
Your safety depends on the help and cooperation of employees. Build best practices at work. Threat baselines are not sufficient to stop malicious actors. Whether in the office or working remotely, security training should foster mastery. Start with low difficulty. Create a foundation. Continually promote learning to the next level. You need to understand and cater to your employee’s needs and work style for effectiveness.
Simply sending emails to employees is not enough for a strong learning experience. With security awareness platforms like CybeReady, training becomes more scientific for continuous and accurate analysis of your security awareness.
- Adjust your training simulations to employee contexts and frequency per mastery.
- Set the level of difficulty depending on the behavior and results of the employees.
- Use intense, bite-sized intervals for success.
- From various attack scenarios, new employees get proper onboarding.
- Put safety at the forefront of all your staff’s minds.
Prioritize your highest risk groups
For a cyber awareness training program to be successful, security teams must plan, operate, evaluate and adapt accordingly. Predicting current difficulty and target groups can be complex. Security teams must determine future attack campaigns based on employee behavior and address challenges in a given scenario.
With data-driven platforms like CybeReady, your security teams monitor campaign performance to adjust employee protections.
- Build high-intensity personalized training campaigns for your high-risk groups.
- Focus on specific challenges for concrete results such as:
1) Password and data requirements
2) Messages from seemingly legitimate senders and sources
3) Realistic content tailored to a specific department or role.
- Tailor your training to both individuals and attack vectors while respecting employee privacy.
- Move problematic group behavior to best practices.
Keep busy staff alert
Security is 24/7. Keep your training unpredictable to keep employees alert. Send amazing simulation campaigns on a continuous cycle. Get employees ready for the best learning. To create high engagement, make sure your training content is relevant to everyday actions. Use short, frequent and intriguing content in their language. Adapt to local references and current news.
With scientific, data-driven simulations like CybeReady, companies mimic the rapidly changing attack environment – plus, tick all your compliance boxes for a complete solution. Stay abreast of emerging global phishing trends as they change around the world. Focus all your employees on the styles and scenarios of the most popular attackers in their geographies and languages. Adjust frequency with personal and group risk.
Ensure long-term results for every employee
Take advantage of the ‘golden moment’. Timely learning is the key to the most effective results. Instead of random, often irrelevant implementation training for employees, leave a lasting impression right when mistakes happen. Make sure your training uses this limited time period. People are more likely to remember the experience and change their behavior next time.
With data science-driven cybersecurity training platforms like CybeReady, security teams capture the moment of failure for long-term results. With just-in-time learning, employees are immediately trained on mistakes made when they fall for a simulation. They retain critical knowledge and respond better in future attack scenarios. With a new awareness of risks, transform learning into new behaviors.
Reducing your security risks with a new level of employee awareness
In today’s global organizations, the seamless integration of the latest security knowledge into daily work is a must to counter the new risks of mass resignation. It is more important than ever for every employee to get up to speed for high cyber resilience quickly.
Download the CybeReady Playbook to learn how CybeReady’s fully automated security awareness training platform delivers the fast, concrete results you need with virtually zero IT or schedule a product demo with one of our experts.
