Data Security Starts With Education: Free resources to share with your team to improve their knowledge

When it comes to data security, knowledge is power. But without the most up to date information or training opportunities, you and your employees might be at a distinct disadvantage. Hackers and cyber criminals are always learning and creating new ways to gain access to data that is not theirs to access. Therefore, it’s critical for your team to do their homework and learn the latest best practices that will help them stay safe online. Here are several free resources that will help your employees achieve that goal.

Data Breach Response: A Guide for Business

This document prepared by the US Federal Trade Commission is written to address the steps necessary to take once a breach has occurred.  It covers issues like securing your operations, fixing vulnerabilities, and notifying appropriate parties. The document is available for download from the FTC website here.

Protecting Personal Information: A Guide for Business

The FTC also provides free guidance on how companies can keep sensitive personal information in their files, including names, SSNs, financial information, and account data secure with several key principles. The document is available for download from the FTC website here.

Start with Security: A Guide for Business

This FTC provided publication provides valuable guidance for businesses on how to keep sensitive information safer with 10 practical lessons adaptable to companies of any size or sector. The document can be downloaded for free from the FTC website here.

NIST Special Publications

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), is a sub-department of the US Chamber of Commerce. In their mission to promotion excellence in science and industry, they have provided a collection of papers under the Computer Security Resource Center (CSRC) that describe security best practices. These Special Publications and their security assessment tools are available to the public through their website here.

The Cybrary

This online collection of up to date security is considered one of the best IT Security education resources available to the public. Content is free and contains everything from full-length college course videos on basic networking to detailed training on secure coding, penetration testing, and everything security related.

The Security Now! Podcast

This security-focused podcast is co-produced by Steve Gibson and LeoLaport, who are well known for their other widely listent-to podcast, This Week in Tech. Security Now! focuses in on the best information available to businesses and consumers who need to get smart about protecting their data. It’s produced weekly, and covers topics from law, current events, conferences, and security issues that are impacting the current market today.

Top Digital Security Blogs

Two top security blogs worth knowing and reading are Krebs on Security and Schneier on Security. Brian Krebs is the well-known author of Spam Nation, and is one of the best known security bloggers in the world. Is work is featured in The Washington Post as well as on his personal blog. Bruce Schneier is another author and blogger who is also one of the most famous security researchers around. He is a fellow at Harvard, the CTO at IBM-owned security firm and board member at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He writes thoughtfully on subjects such as encryption, terrorism, and National Security in an informative and entertaining way.

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