4 ways to arm your employees against cyber threats

Manuel Breva Colmeiro / Getty Images While businesses are powered by technology – email, texts, video calls, file-sharing, communications platforms, and the telephone – they remain driven by humans. That means human error can be the weakest link in cybersecurity. Last year, data breaches cost businesses across the world an average of $5 million, according to IBM's 2024 Cost of a Data Breach report. Human error can't entirely be eliminated, but enlisting employees in the fight against cyber threats can make a huge difference. 1. Educate employees about sophisticated new phishing techniques Phishing emails are no longer as obviously fraudulent as they were in the past: they can mimic your organization's domain name and email signatures to appear strikingly close to legitimate communications. They can be so personalized and hyper-targeted that even experts can fall for them. Artificial intelligence is behind this uptick in quantity and quality of scams: one study showed that large lan ... Read full article.