With some training and occasional rewards, employees can help you fight cyberattacks:
- People act consistently with behaviors they have demonstrated in the past. If they have been trained, empowered, and encouraged to identify breaches, hacks, and other issues, these behaviors will become habit over time.
- Giving something to someone with no obligation for required behaviors encourages return favor-giving. Instead of punishing employees for accidentally enabling breaches or hackers, consider rewarding them for identifying and preventing problems.
- People are more likely to comply with requests when these come from someone in an authority role or a thought leader. Have an IT staff member or popular team leader talk to workers about the dangers of cyberattacks and why and how they need to be involved in preventing them.
