Staff Training
Training will need to be more regular and thorough.
More and more, hackers are counting on the naiveté or inexperience of the typical employee. By using schemes to trick these employees, hackers can find legitimate methods to enter the network. With new threats appearing on a daily basis, it's essential that those in the government industry not ignore this. In the past six months alone, 95 percent of all Kovter attacks were in state and local government and education networks.
By focusing on more frequent training, state and local governments can better help protect their networks. While executing such training often falls to someone in the IT department, unfortunately training and educating aren't typically in the skill sets of IT professionals. Taking this into consideration, a few tips can help lead to effective training:
- Use simplified language.
- Encourage questions.
- Implement routine education.