Businesses of all sizes can be vulnerable to security breaches and cyber attacks. One of the biggest problems is often that the staff they employ don’t have a full understanding of what the dangers are and what they could be doing to help prevent attacks. All staff should be fully aware of all security processes and should be involved in keeping the company protected.

The first thing any company should do is make staff aware of their responsibilities. If they are exposed to sensitive company data, they should have a full understanding of what their duties are to keep this data safe and secure. This should also cover the way in which they conduct themselves on social media and how this might affect the company.

Provide regular training for your staff so that they understand what a security breach or scam might look like. Give them details of previous attempts and teach them how they should react in a situation they find suspicious. You might also want to make them aware of the most common types of phishing emails, what they tend to look like and what should be done if they receive them.

Make sure that your staff all have personal passwords set up on their individual machines. This will make sure that only they can access their accounts. Store passwords safely and securely, so that only a network administrator would be able to find them.