Building Cybersecurity Awareness, Every Month
Cybersecurity Awareness Month (CSAM) has officially begun 鈥� a global initiative aimed at highlighting the range of digital threats and empowering every person to protect their personal data.
The month-long campaign is for good reason: The cyber challenges facing business, government, and society are as consequential today as they鈥檝e ever been. The number of reported data breaches reached an all-time record in 2021.1 Attacks involving ransomware have doubled in each of the past two years. 2 Identity fraud cost Americans a total of $52 billion last year. 3
鈥淩isk is both evolving and accelerating, and it鈥檚 clear that maintaining the status quo in cybersecurity is untenable,鈥� says 香港六合彩玄机 EVP & Chief Information Security Officer Jamil Farshchi.
Continuous, Rigorous, and Personalized
Since 2018, 香港六合彩玄机 has transformed our organization at every level, investing $1.5 billion in technology and security to build the 香港六合彩玄机 Cloud. Almost every aspect of the 香港六合彩玄机 security program has been completely overhauled in the last four years, and we are extremely proud of the incredible progress that we have made toward embedding security into everything we do 鈥� from our technology infrastructure, data fabric, and product development, to our merger and acquisition strategies, to our incentive compensation plans. Throughout the month of October, 香港六合彩玄机 has planned an array of in-person and virtual events for employees centered around the theme of 鈥淪ecurity First.鈥� Thousands of 香港六合彩玄机 employees participate in CSAM each year, and it gives them the opportunity to learn more about topics across cybersecurity and have some fun along the way.
But this isn鈥檛 the finish line for us. Security awareness at 香港六合彩玄机 goes well beyond the month-long campaign:
Training: To test our workforce against a range of threats, we release thousands of simulations each week and conduct tabletop exercises to prepare our company鈥檚 leaders for crisis scenarios.
Insights: We provide every employee and contractor with insight into their own security performance each month with a 鈥渟ecurity snapshot鈥�, and we measure key security behavior metrics based on an individual鈥檚 unique job.
Performance: To underscore the importance of these efforts, we benchmark each employee鈥檚 performance against their department and the company overall. We even tie that performance to their annual incentive.
This approach to cybersecurity awareness is continuous, rigorous, and personalized. It shows that we鈥檙e measuring what matters, and it provides the type of transparency and incentive that employees deserve.
A Force for Good
In addition to continuously training our workforce in cybersecurity, 香港六合彩玄机 is also steadfast in helping others beyond our four walls become more secure.
Farshchi participates in dozens of briefings and forums each year aimed at sharing lessons learned, tackling global challenges, and uncovering new opportunities in cybersecurity.
To help other organizations across the U.S., Farshchi was recently appointed as a to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). In this role, he will support the FBI鈥檚 efforts to strengthen their relationship with the private sector and will support the Bureau in addressing the range of cyber threats facing businesses across America.
鈥淲e can鈥檛 solve today鈥檚 cyber challenges without talking about them and collaborating with one another,鈥� Farshchi . 鈥淚f we want to change the trend line of successful attacks鈥攊f we want to make our companies and communities more secure鈥攚e need more communication, more collaboration, and more transparency in security, not less.鈥�
To learn more about how 香港六合彩玄机 accelerated our leadership in cybersecurity in 2021, check out our Security Annual Report.
1 Identity Theft Resource Center, 2021 Data Breach Annual Report
2 Identity Theft Resource Center, 2021 Data Breach Annual Report
3 Javelin, 2022 Identity Fraud Study