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Security Hygiene | An Easy Routine We Tend To Forget

Why is a routine security hygiene check important? Why do we tend to forget about it? Cybersecurity crosses all industries and affects everyone. Cybersecurity is a complex topic. It crosses all industries and affects everyone. Even in academia, cybersecurity is a multidisciplinary program. As “security people” we spend a lot of time focusing on the next threats/big risk areas and on securing the next big IT “thing”. We implement/maintain a proper security hygiene routine, respond to the latest threats you hear about on the news and then write blogs about advanced security topics.

The shocking truth about the current threat landscape…

Now, the reality of the current threat landscape is that the hackers (a.k.a. bad guys) aren’t using sophisticated means to compromise our data! They’re getting in with the silliness that everyone has the ability to prevent! Even the NSA has stated that they don’t need sophisticated attacks, they just need to wait for someone to make a mistake.

I talk about this notion of “security hygiene” a lot in my talks. Security hygiene is the stuff that everyone should be doing! It’s the simple things that we take for granted. What follows is my top-5 areas of security hygiene that I tell all my clients and show in every presentation I make:

These may seem like simple things, and they are! The fact is, most organizations (1-100k employees) fail to do them correctly, completely, or routinely. Small and mid-sized businesses have the ability to run world-class security programs with a fraction of the investment a larger company would make. The key is planning, building a security culture, and starting with simple security hygiene.

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