This may involve evaluating your security, and the protections and policies that are currently in place. This will enable you to identify where the gaps are and address what’s missing.

2. What roles do senior leaders and board members play in managing cyber risk?

Do you participate in drills that allow key players to determine how they would respond to a cyberattack? Key authority figures need to be involved with cybersecurity even if it is not their forte – for example, if they don’t belong to the IT department.

3. Do you have cyber risk insurance? If so, what does it cover and exclude?

Cyber-liability policies are important because if a hacker gains access to your system and steals confidential data of your customers, the financial consequences of an individual suit or class action against your organisation would be crippling. (Read Are you covered for cyber fraud?)

4. How do you manage third party cyber risks, such as vendors and other third parties in your supply chain?

When dealing with any part of your supply chain you need to consider what information and/or data you are providing them with, how sensitive is that data, and what kind of access do you give to your vendors?

5. Do you engage in basic “cyber hygiene”?

This means being aware of all the devices connected to your networks and what is running on these networks. You need to know who has administrative permissions to change, bypass or override the system, and then reduce that number to only those who absolutely need it.

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Earlier this year, CEO Mark Zuckerberg was grilled about the alleged data mining of as many as 87 million users by Cambridge Analytica which raised concerns about the personal information stored on Facebook and which prompted changes to its privacy policy in a bid to salvage its reputation.

With these significant security issues, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Facebook had suffered significant consequences in terms of losing the confidence of its users and closed accounts.  However, it seems that’s not the case. While investors are impacting the Facebook share price, there’s no sign of a wholesale desertion by those who share their daily lives, and data, as account holders. According to a report by Goldman Sachs, Facebook’s usage following the Cambridge Analytica scandal actually increased with US unique users rising by 7% year on year in April, and Zuckerberg claimed earlier this year that an inconsequential number of users deleted their accounts as a result of the data scandal.
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CybSafe is a cloud-based unified cyber awareness platform that demonstrably reduces human cyber risk as it relates to awareness, behaviour and culture.

People aren’t perfect.

Knowing this, criminals often target people when launching cyber attacks. If people can spot attacks, they can stop them in their tracks. Conversely, if people fail to spot criminal attacks, the attacks can cause a great deal of financial, reputational and emotional damage.

CybSafe helps everyone behave in a secure manner and spot more cyber attacks. In doing so, it reduces risk and increases your organisation’s cyber resilience.

2. How does CybSafe work?

CybSafe is built on two foundational pillars: machine learning & advanced data analytics, and psychology & behavioural science.

CybSafe first measures the security awareness, behaviours and culture of a group of people. It then implements interventions designed in collaboration with psychologists and behavioural scientists to improve all three of these areas.

As time goes on, CybSafe continues to measure each area accordingly to help keep people safe online.

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London – 11th October – EnterpriseRed, a UK-based cybersecurity specialist, today announced that it has partnered with CybSafe, the GCHQ-accredited, cloud-based cybersecurity awareness and training platform that combines AI and data analytics with behavioural science.

While technology and processes can create cybersecurity vulnerabilities for any business, human cyber risk needs to be addressed with employee security awareness training that focuses on changing behaviour and building a culture of security.

Statistics show that around 75% of security breaches are preventable, and 47% involve a malicious attack which is often reliant on the actions of employees. And issues don’t stop with a company’s workforce: 25% of security breaches concerned a negligent contractor or a supplier.

CybSafe developed market-leading software which helps businesses, of any size, take an intelligent approach to cyber and information security awareness.

It’s designed around the simple principle that if employees know how to be more savvy online, they will work in a more cyber aware and secure way and businesses will be better protected.

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