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Essential cybersecurity training: What you should teach your employees to keep your company safe

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Bogdan Botezatu, senior e-threat analyst at Bitdefender, shares his top tips on how to kick off a cybersecurity training programme. 

Human behaviour will always represent a weak link in the cybersecurity chain. Even an organisation with the best security tools in place will always be vulnerable, to a certain extent, to human error.

IT leaders should therefore ensure that a sizeable chunk of security budget is allocated to training, so that you can be confident your employees know how to identify and avoid common cyber threats such as spear-phishing attempts, how to handle company data, and how to identify social engineering techniques.

For employees, who work outside the IT department, in particular, endless powerpoint presentations and lectures are not necessarily the best way to develop cybersecurity awareness — the danger is that they will just switch off....