With the widespread cyberbreaches witnessed this year, including the massive WannaCry breach and the more recent Equifax hacking, employers that don’t school employees in how to prevent and detect security breaches put their organizations at great risk.
HR departments are attractive targets for cybertheft due to the volume of personal and financial data they maintain. By partnering with IT or third-party cyber experts, HR staff can defend against phishing schemes and other security break-ins and teach workers how to avoid them.