Enterprise-Grade IT Security for Small and Medium Businesses: Building Security Systems, in Plain English

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D. CherryEnterprise-Grade IT Security for Small and Medium Businesseshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8628-9_10

10. Employee Training

Denny Cherry¹  

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Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting, LLC, Oceanside, CA, USA

 

People are the weakest link when it comes to attackers’ getting access to the company’s internal network. To prevent employees’ being used to gain access to the company’s network, those employees need to be trained on spotting the ways in which attackers will attempt to use them to gain access to company systems.

Passwords

The first thing about passwords that employees need to know is that they should never, under any circumstances, share their ...