Cybersecurity: the human element becomes a strength
How to engage people to improve company and PA information security
How much does the human factor affect a company’s security level? A lot. Monitoring user behaviours is not always easy, especially today with continuously increasing cyber-attacks. Cefriel designed an innovative, easy, and user-friendly solution to considerably reduce companies and public administration’s exposition to the cyber risk.
Through a series of methodologies, processes and tools, it is possible to correctly address people activity when they have to face real cyber-attacks, and turn the human factor, always considered as the weakest link in companies’ cyber security chain, into a strength.
Enterprises and Public Administration
Cesare Colombo
Need
Protect the company’s information assets from cyber-attacks that can leverage human factor as the weak link in the IT security chain.
Face news new risk typologies through innovative assessment methodologies that include both technology and the human factor.
Engage company or public administration’s employees in protecting the information assets.
Solution
Cefriel Social-Driven Vulnerability AssessmentTM (SDVA) methodology enables to measure the employees’ cybersecurity level, in full compliance with the complex Italian and European regulatory framework. This way, it is possible to evaluate human vulnerability likelihood, by monitoring the employee behaviours when solicited by a social engineering attack. The SDVA, through a very realistic spear-phishing attack simulation, enables to measure and understand actual risks, helping to obtain the best commitment to implement mitigation strategies.
Impact
40.000+ users
Cefriel experience in more of projects provides the company with a reliable benchmark to assess the risk level related to the human factor.
Higher risk awareness at all company levels
Results of simulations in a company or public administration are understandably conveyed also for the Top Management, in order to increase the company’s awareness on this subject matter.
Effective countermeasures
Cefriel methodology enables to continuously train employees. Repeated tests showed a reduction up to 38% of the most dangerous behaviours.