{"id":15244,"date":"2021-05-03T07:07:17","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T07:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.openbusinesscouncil.org\/?p=15244"},"modified":"2021-11-25T14:22:30","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T14:22:30","slug":"cybersecurity-tips-and-tricks-to-teach-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.footballthink.com\/cybersecurity-tips-and-tricks-to-teach-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Cybersecurity Tips and Tricks to Teach Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are you aware of the cybersecurity best practices? Do you ensure that you are keeping yourself and your business safe from hackers? Even if this is the case, your employees may be unaware of common cybersecurity knowledge and could open up your business to complications. This could be costly and cause issues to your company\u2019s reputation and profit margins. While cybersecurity is talked about a lot, you need to ensure that you and your employees understand how they can protect not only themselves from hackers and those with malicious intent, but also your business. After all, a security breach can damage your business\u2019s reputation as well as cost you money trying to reclaim or retrieve missing, stolen or damaged data.<\/p>\n

What are the best ways to teach your employees? And how can you ensure that the security measures you put in place are followed? Here are a few tips and tricks to share with your employees, but you can also use them yourself.<\/p>\n

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Do Not Neglect Your Devices<\/h2>\n

How many times have you misplaced your phone, tablet or even laptop? While this may be fine when at home and without anyone else around you, it can turn into a bad habit. Rather, you need to get into the habit of protecting your devices so that you know where they are, and if you are to leave them somewhere, they need to be locked and inaccessible. This is because people could try to hack into your phone so that they have access to sensitive data. Of course, this can cause issues for you personally, but if you use your phone for work such as checking emails, etc., it can cause problems there, too.<\/p>\n

Teach your employees to keep their work devices safe by using VPNs or an android PGP<\/a>, and to keep them out of sight and reach of others. You can have rules in place that if an employee is to leave their desktop, they have to lock their PC so that other people, such as fellow employees or even visitors, cannot gain access to any sensitive data.<\/p>\n

Install Proper Anti-Virus<\/h2>\n

All PCs should have anti-virus installed on them so that they are protected from any malicious viruses that could be lingering on websites that employees visit or any links they accidentally click on. Of course, there are various other benefits of installing anti-virus software, such as:<\/p>\n