Cybersecurity Awareness

Cybersecurity awareness is a crucial mechanism to protect your organisation against cyberattacks. Even though organisations might have the best cyber defense equipments, however, often humans have proven to be easy and soft targets for cyberattacks. The individual who falls victim for cyberattack, will not only compromise their own devices and data, but they may also compromise the entire organization. To overcome this challenge organisations needs to strengthen their cybersecurity controls, implement defense in depth, and conduct cybersecurity awareness trainings and sessions for its employees.

Realizing that 40% or more of cyber vulnerabilities are directly linked to employee behavior, per Gartner’s latest studies, it is vital that organizations focus more on their employees via cybersecurity awareness, education, training, and use of simulations to create a stronger human firewall to protect their vital digital assets. After all, according to IBM Security’s latest findings, the average cost of a cyber data breach is now $8.2M.

To create human firewall and to strengthen the organisational maturity, it is eminent that the organisation should conduct cybersecurity awareness training and sessions on a periodic basis to keep employees up to date with the current regional and industry specific threats.

While cybersecurity remains top of mind for boards and C-level executives, organizations now need to pivot identifying an effective and innovative strategy to avoid falling victim to cyber criminals. At BDO, we follow an agile approach to provide our clients the customized cybersecurity awareness trainings, sessions and campaigns based on organization needs. This can be delivered via multiple ways such as onsite classroom trainings/sessions, e-learning programs and organizational wide security awareness campaigns.

BDO offers the following comprehensive cybersecurity services, and can help protect your organization from cyber threats:

• Cybersecurity awareness program and strategy development
• Cybersecurity organisation wide awareness campaign and driving cultural shift
• Cybersecurity maturity assessment
• Cybersecurity awareness trainings and sessions for board, management and employees
• Social engineering and phishing campaigns