From the course: Defending Against and Recovering From Cybersecurity Attacks: Top Safety Practices
The importance of enforcing security best practices
From the course: Defending Against and Recovering From Cybersecurity Attacks: Top Safety Practices
The importance of enforcing security best practices
- [Chelsie] No matter who you are or what industry you're in, cyber security threats affects us all. And with all the major headlines, it might seem like there's nothing you can do to prevent them. But the reality is, by following some basic principles, you can drastically reduce your chances of becoming the next target. In this LinkedIn course, we're going to review some of the top security best practices to help prevent a cyber attack. We'll cover how to protect users, endpoints, and sensitive data. We'll also talk about how to implement an effective security training program to educate users and become cyber resilient. I'm Chelsie Thompson. I'm a security technical specialist at Microsoft and a former member of Microsoft Detection Incident Response team. I am also a university instructor and doctoral candidate in cyber security analytics. The recommendations I'm going to give you all are based on my experiences helping customers respond to live cyber security incidents and compromises. So if you want to prevent your organization from becoming the next big headline and understand what customers could have done to harden their security posture, let's get started.