Can We Train Your Staff to Resist Hackers?

Cybercrime is a widespread and growing industry that is creating problems for businesses everywhere.

Typically, cybercriminals or hackers will attack businesses for direct financial gains or to extract data to sabotage or disrupt proper functioning of businesses.

Hackers employ new and clever techniques to scam you out of money or breach your data for malicious activity, and with new malware and viruses being discovered daily, these problems are growing by the day.

Cyber-Attacks on Dealerships

The beauty of cybercrime is that the hacker can attack your dealership from anywhere in the world. They can hack into your systems and you may never be able to track them. If you do manage to track them, they may be out of reach for authorities to take action.

Dealerships realize these problems and invest in state-of-the-art machines and software to protect themselves from hackers.

The issue here is that IT systems are only as safe as the people that use them.

Hackers understand that in order to breach a company's security systems, they need an insider to help them. They will try to gain access or control over your systems through your employees.

Which means your dealership is only as safe as your least tech-savvy employee.

Hackers need only one employee to click on a bad link, or share details on the wrong email or website, to compromise all the technology that protects your business from cyber-attacks.

They employ many ways to achieve this, some of these include:

• • Phishing
    Using emails, attachments, and web pages to gain access to private information.
  • Social engineering
    Manipulating people to compromise data or take wrong actions.
  • Identity theft
    Pretending to be an authority figure to extract information or finances.

Cyber-attacks like phishing and identity theft are the number one method of cybercrime against businesses today.

Statistics show that phishing accounted for 38% of all cyber-attacks faced by businesses in 2019.

These cyber-attacks can bypass your security systems with relative ease and use unaware employees to carry out malicious activities.

How to Protect Your Dealership

Dealerships need to be vigilant when it comes to cybercrime. They need a proactive approach in order to protect their systems and their employees from becoming victim to cyber-attacks.

Apart from security software and hardware, they need to teach their employees about the dangers of cyber-attacks like phishing and Identity theft.

Cyber criminals are using new and creative techniques every day, and just like you update your software for increased protection, your employees need to stay updated with these new and creative techniques that hackers employ.

With the right training, your employees can be as good as your software when it comes to cyber-attacks. From recognizing and avoiding phishing scams to choosing the most secure passwords possible, we can teach your staff everything they need to know to keep the hackers at bay.

For more information about cyber security and team training, please contact us today.