Train employees – your best defense – for security awareness

With so many security threats on the horizon, it may be comforting to know the strongest security asset is already inside the company employees.

New security threats and identity theft schemes are being developed every day, and large corporations continually invest millions of dollars and thousands of man-hours to keep their information and identity safe and their network secure.

But investing time and money into securing the organization and its customers can be completely undermined if employees don’t understand their role in the security plan.

Even when an organization has state-of-the-art technology, strict security policies, and a highly skilled IT staff to manage policies, some organizations are not as secure as they could be. In fact, a recent survey showed 40 percent of IT managers surveyed reported that their organization had experienced at least one security breach in the last year.