Lessons Learned From Cyber Awareness Month – Part Two

Following up on our last post about Cyber Awareness, we now focus on cybersecurity in the workplace. All organizations – large and small, for-profit and non-profit – need to be vigilant about cybersecurity. According to one analysis, 918 data breaches led to 1.9 billion data records being compromised worldwide in the first half of 2017, or about 10 million records a day, a 164% increase. Another study found that since 2013, a sample of company breaches had led to over $52 billion in shareholder losses.

Organizations can easily improve their security by blocking unnecessary websites, applying appropriate filters to incoming emails, and themselves implementing multifactor authentication. More systemically, companies are increasingly joining the federal agencies that are implementing the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. It has been predicted that by 2020, 50% of businesses will be utilizing it.