Tuesday, September 20, 2016

How to Strengthen Your Human Firewall

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When it comes to security, it pays to be completely honest with yourself. After all, you may be able to hide weaknesses in your network from yourself, but that won’t stop threat actors from finding them.

If you are totally honest with yourself, you’ll realize there’s no way to completely shield your users from attacks.

You can tighten your spam filter, keep a watchful eye on user permissions, and buy in the best endpoint security package you can afford… but still, some attacks will make it through. And if your users are like most people, right now they aren’t even close to being ready to cope with that. We explored this previously in Why Some Phishing Emails Will Always Get Through Your Spam Filter.

We believe people can be the last line of your network defense – and do a damn good job of it – but first they have to be trained.

Here are a few ideas to get you started.



from How to Strengthen Your Human Firewall

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