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Simple Steps To Building A Culture Of Cyber Awareness In Your Business

Richard Huggins Richard Huggins
13 June 2024


Cyber attacks are a constant threat in today’s digital world. From phishing emails, malware downloads, and data breaches, they can cripple your business and devastate personal lives.

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Building a cyber awareness culture doesn’t require complex strategies or expensive training programmes. Here are some very simple steps you can take to make a difference within your organisation:

  • Start with leadership buy-in, the importance of building this culture needs to start from the top.
  • Make security awareness fun, not fearful. There are many Security Awareness Training tools out there to help deliver messaging in an engaging way.
  • When relaying your messaging, speak their language, keep it short and sweet.
  • Conduct phishing campaigns on a frequent basis.
  • Make reporting threats easy and to be encouraged.
  • Security champions: empower your employees.
  • Beyond work: remind staff that security spills over the working day.
  • Celebrate successes, inform all staff of reported threats, but more importantly when the success of raising the alarm has averted a potential disaster.
  • Leverage technology to help safeguard and protect your IT estate.

 

Richard Huggins
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Richard Huggins

Richard joined us in 1997 as an apprentice IT engineer conducting on-site installations of CAD workstations and Microsoft and Novell network environments. After a brief spell away to travel the world, he returned to work on our helpdesk supporting our CAD customers. In 2007, Richard was promoted to Support Services Manager and worked in this role until 2016 when he decided to acquire new skills and widen his IT industry knowledge and left to work as an Operational Manager for one of the UK’s Top 20 leading Information Security companies. In 2019 Richard once again returned to Symetri as Head of Support and Customer Success to further improve the Symetri customer support experience and is now responsible for the IT Solutions division.

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