Defend Against Social Engineering Attacks with Managed Services in Sacramento

The prevalence of hacking attempts on businesses has made cyber security an important element of managed services in Sacramento. At Noverus Innovations, Inc., we acknowledge the prevalence of social engineering attacks as an easy exploit for hackers. As a result, our Sacramento cyber security services are designed to secure your computer networks and prevent social engineering attacks. While social engineering attacks lack technical sophistication, they are the most successful form of hacking attempts. As hackers adopt improved methods of executing social engineering attacks, you need a fail-safe cyber security strategy to protect your business from such attacks.

To achieve an effective defense against social engineering attacks, you need to address the underlying vulnerabilities in your business. These are:

• Employees
• Software updates
• IT policy

Staff Training

Managed services providers in Sacramento can help you enforce IT best practices and compliance requirements. However, you must also embrace monitoring and analytics across your computer networks to identify the weaknesses that may lead to successful social engineering attacks. If your employees are not aware of the types of social engineering attacks to defend against, they will be easily fooled by social engineering scams. For you to prevent social engineered attacks, train your employees on cyber security measures against such attacks.

In addition, you can train them on a file filtering IT policy to manage access to sensitive files and send out notifications to employees in case of suspicious files on your internal network.

Software Updates

Noverus offers fully-fledged managed services that help you keep your software up-to-date to mitigate the risk of social engineering attacks. Keeping your software up-to-date is a strong layer of security in addressing potential exploits that a hacker would use to attack your IT systems. Up-to-date software is challenging to hack, which encourages hackers to move on to find an easier target. In fact, software updates offer you update patches for your IT systems and discourage hackers from targeting you. Therefore, if the hacker cannot penetrate your email DNS, they cannot send a malicious email to your employees.

IT Policy

Businesses that succumb to social engineering attacks lack effective IT policies or a strict adherence to them. Your IT policy should have clearly set guidelines on how to handle data in different situations. With a proper IT policy in place, your employees will know what to do when they encounter suspicious emails. It ensures that your employees don’t turn to default reasoning when requested for sensitive information without due process.

An IT policy is of no use without a consistent effort to make your employees aware of it. You need to complete awareness training programs and emphasize that employees must stick to the IT policy. This will prevent the leakage of information and the possibility of a hacker infiltrating your IT systems. However, you must also adhere to a “no-exceptions” approach in enforcing your IT policy, since exempting some of your employees from it creates a vulnerability for social engineering attacks.

At Noverus Innovations Inc., we offer cutting-edge managed services in Sacramento to protect your business from cyber security attacks. With our expertise and advanced technology solutions, we can help you overcome social engineering attacks. Contact us today to learn more.