IT Security Training Tips and Tricks

Instilling good and secure practices when it comes to IT security, systems, and efficiency across employees is vital to a company’s success but also, at times, possibly hard to do. IT security training is an essential aspect to any business and its employees as it helps place everyone on a similar knowledge level, equip them with the skills to tackle any future systems changes, and also empowers them by providing them with the understanding that they are valued assets in the company.

Therefore, while employee training is paramount as a whole, IT security training can be a make-or-break situation when it comes to an organization’s security which lies in the hands of its employees. At Lucy Security, internal analyses have shown that correctly implemented awareness programs make a company up to ten times more secure

For that reason, it is important to outline the key ways in which you can give your team basic training and useful habits to kickstart your organization’s IT and systems security practices.

Instill Good Habits – Lock Your Computer

It’s always hard to keep up with good habits and kick bad ones, but some are paramount and should be abided by all employees. One of them is locking your computer every time you get up from your desk. The importance of this is that the computer you work on is considerably your own, and unauthorized users should be locked out. While you might not have any sensitive information, it stops other employees from entering your computer and looking at information that may be meant for only you or, for example, top management. So, it is important for management to make it a policy or mandatory for employees to follow this procedure.

Gamified Learning

Introduce gamification elements to make IT security training more engaging and interactive. Develop quizzes, puzzles, or challenges that test employees’ knowledge of security concepts and reward them for achieving milestones. This approach can foster healthy competition and motivate employees to actively participate in the training.

Stay Up To Date

From password strength to scam-like emails, it is important that employees are up to date and maintain a good level of knowledge regarding IT security, updating systems, and passwords. The importance of this is essential to maintain data safety and other information that the company deems valuable. To do this, companies must:

1. Make routine password changes: this could be a notification that is sent to employees that require them to change their password at certain given times. Password strengths should not include your name or birthday, but rather at least one capital letter and at least one number.
2. When updating systems, offer a quick tutorial: if a system update is very different from a previous one, employees should be given a buffer period to adjust along with some IT security training to make sure operations run smoothly. It is important to get your employees accustomed to new systems to retain the maximum security and efficiency of your company.
3. Be careful what you download: sometimes you might click on a link and it will be fine, but at times you could get malware or a virus that not only infects your computer but can be transferred to co-workers if not noticed. Thus, it is important to maintain a strong antivirus that is carefully chosen for your company, and that covers the entire space of your company’s IT infrastructure.

With these precautions, habits, and initial training instilled, employees can work in a safer and risk-free environment in relation to IT and security systems as well as a company’s ICT infrastructure.

At Real Secure we provide robust IT security training for employees, staff, and company members in order to ensure your IT infrastructure is optimized to the highest form of security. To learn more, check our offerings on IT infrastructure solutions and IT security training for companies.

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