What enterprises should do when helpless employees lose hope in fighting cyber attacks

Hit too many times with successful attacks and compromises, an enterprise’s human resources can develop a victim mentality, a.k.a. learned helplessness. When this happens, employees who feel they are helpless to do anything effective to fight cyber attacks lose hope.

To support an empowered and resilient team, test and prove the theory that when basic security measures are consistently applied, these can make it harder for the relatively rare attacks of APTs, Zero-Day Exploits, and Nation States to succeed. “Organizations need to stop worrying about APTs and Zero-Day exploits,” says Cowperthwaite, “and start patching vulnerabilities that they’ve known about for years.”

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