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Situational Awareness
Situational awareness in cybersecurity means having a clear understanding of potential threats, and vulnerabilities, with the ability to use this knowledge to make informed decisions.
Why is Situational Awareness important?
Cybersecurity situational awareness empowers everyone in the organisation to protect their personal data, recognize and avoid common cyber threats, maintain safe online behavior, safeguard their devices, and contribute to a secure digital workplace.
What is an aspect of Situational Awareness?
Understanding potential threats, understanding your current security measures as well as trusting your instincts help us to make informed decisions to respond to cyber threats quickly and appropriately.
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Trusting your instincts and acting when you feel something is wrong.
Having a clear understanding of current security measures.
All answers are aspects of situational awareness.
Understanding potential threats you face on a day to day basis.
Increase your Situational Awareness
As is true with most aspects of IT security, situational awareness is a team effort and everybody is responsible for doing their part. Here are 3 ways you can improve your situational awareness.
Stay vigilant against phishing threats
Stay informed and share knowledge
Secure your physical assests
The most effective way to protect yourself from phishing attacks is with a security first mindset. Always be sceptical of any unsolicited emails or messages until you can verify the legitimacy of the sender and the request itself. This is especially relevant for any email asking you perform a sensitive task or implying urgent action is required.
Keep up to date with emerging trends in cybersecurity and constantly educate yourself, this will help equip you with the tools to effectively detect and repsond to potential risks. Do your part by sharing knowledge with others in the organisation and cultivating a strong security culture. Remember, we beat cyber threats together.
Always remember to secure your assets. This means using strong passwords on your devices, keeping them in a secure location when not in use and making it a habit to lock your computer or device whenever it is unattended. This is a simple habit that can deter opportunistic threats.
What is a good habit you can adopt to secure your physical devices?
It's a simple but effective habit. Locking your device can deter opportunistic attackers from stealing information from your computer, or performing actions under your accounts. It also deters mischevious colleagues from changing your wallpaper!
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Adopting least privileges principles.
Locking your devices when stepping away from them.
Sharing knowledge about the latest cyber breach with your co-workers.
Ensuring you only open suspected phishing emails on your personal devices and not your work devices.
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In order to spot a phishing email, you need to be a cyber security expert.
Whilst technical knowledge helps, situational awareness is equally as powerful when it comes to detecting phishing. Remain alert and look for misspellings, grammatical errors, awkward phrasing and threatening or urgent language. Ask yourself if this email is expected or does it seem to good to be true. If in doubt, report the email to your IT team.
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Situational awareness allows organizations to detect threats faster.
Organizations with strong cybersecurity situational awareness are better equipped to detect and quickly recognize suspicious activity, minimizing the damage an attacker can inflict.
What is one benefit of having strong cybersecurity situational awareness for organizations?
When organizations can detect threats faster, they can take immediate action to prevent attackers from furthering their access. This could involve isolating compromised systems, blocking malicious activities, or initiating incident response procedures. This helps to reduce the risk of a data breach, but doesn't eliminate it entirely.
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It enables organizations to detect and respond to threats faster.
It reduces the need for regular security updates and patches.
It increases the likelihood of successful social engineering attacks.
It eliminates the risk of data breaches entirely.
Is the following statement True or False:
Situational awareness is about relying on your security team to detect cyber threats.
Security teams play a vital role in keeping you and your organization safe from cyber attacks but, it's not a complete solution. Situational awareness is a tool at everyones disposal. It's made strong by educating yourself, staying informed about threats, using cyber security best practices like using strong passwords and trusting your instincts.
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Wrapping up
Having a high level of situational awareness means that you are equipped to detect the vast majority of attacks that cyber attackers send your way. Stay alert, stay aware and stay one step ahead of the attackers!
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