Best Practices for Dealing With Phishing and Ransomware

Can Users be your last line of defense?

Phishing and ransomware are serious problems that can steal data or disable access to your organization’s network. Both ransomware and phishing are increasingly common and are having devastating impacts on businesses of all sizes. The FBI estimates that ransomware alone cost organizations $209 million in just the first three months of 2016!

This new Osterman Research whitepaper gives you a variety of best practices that you should follow in order to minimize your potential for becoming a victim of phishing and ransomware. Among these best practices are implementing security awareness training as your last line of defense.

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How to Transform Employee Worst Practices Into Enterprise Best Practices

Despite all the funds you may have spent on state-of-the-art security software, the bad guys are just one gullible user click away from staging an all-out invasion.

Such incidents are skyrocketing. According to a recent study by Osterman Research, email is the most prevalent channel of infiltration into the enterprise. Yet by far the most effective strategy in combatting these attacks is also one of the most poorly implemented – security awareness training.

Find out what the true best practices are for security awareness training – those that establish a human firewall to effectively block hackers and criminals, and keep you out of the headlines.

This whitepaper provides:

  • Top 10 Enterprise Security Best  (and Worst) Employee Practices.
  • Clear direction on how to go about improving your organization’s security posture by “inoculating” employees who fall for social engineering attacks.
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