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Continuous Improvement: Security Training Edition!
This video goes over the steps to continuously improve your cybersecurity.
Customizing Your Security Awareness Program
Security training can be an effective protection and detection measure, or just another training module for an employee to ignore and click through. Even if an organization is using pre-packaged security awareness training products, they can make the training more effective by customizing it to the organization. Here are some components you may consider when customizing your security program.
Security Awareness
Why is security awareness important when we have all of these appliances and software and hardware to protect us? Well, ultimately, attacks come down to a set of human eyes and a keyboard, and a mouse. And if a user is well educated and if they're trained well and they're astute, they can help prevent a security incident from ever happening or detect it.
FTC's New Deadline for the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Safeguards Rule
The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) applies to many types of financial institutions, like banks, savings and loans, credit unions, insurance companies and securities firms. It requires those organizations to explain their information-sharing practices to their customers and to protect sensitive data. On November 15, 2022, The FTC announced a six-month extension for companies to comply with data security provisions in the GLBA. The new deadline is June 9, 2023.
Phishing Prevention Tips
Phishing prevention can be difficult since it is constantly morphing and so common. A multi-pronged approach usually works best for addressing this threat.
Three Tips for Creating Better Response and Recovery Plans
Response and recovery plans are crucial to reduce the severity and time of security incidents. But many organizations aren’t sure where to start in building their plans. Here are three tips for building a better recovery plan. Subscribe to our channel to get more useful content to help you protect your organization.
Keeping Your Recovery Plans Up to Date
It’s critical to have recovery plans like business continuity, disaster recovery, and incident response plans. However, where many organizations fall short is in keeping these plans evergreen. An incident can blindside an organization when they discover its response plan no longer reflects the environment they need to protect. So how can your organization keep its recovery plans accurate and up to date?
Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, and Security Incident Response Plan - Sedara Whiteboard
Incident response is a structured process organizations use to identify and deal with cybersecurity incidents. Response includes several stages, including preparation for incidents, detection and analysis of a security incident, containment, eradication, and full recovery, and post-incident analysis and learning. What are some tips for making effective plans? Watch this episode of Sedara's Whiteboard Series to find out.
Identifying a Quality Pentest - Sedara Whiteboard Series
In this episode of the Sedara Cybersecurity Whiteboard Series, our Lead Pentester Nick Aures talks about what to look for in a quality pentest. Nick breaks the talk down into 4 key takeaways: Take a look, and we hope it’s helpful. What Should I Look for in a Quality Penetration Test? Penetration testing is a fundamental part of validating the security measures you’ve taken and showing they are effective.