Staff Training as Important as Tech in Cybercrime Fight

The channel has to focus on getting qualified customer personnel cyber security and sale of appropriate technology, according to CompTIA, claiming the regulation of data protection in the EU will force come the problem.

In research published today, the trade group CompTIA channel claims that 70 percent of UK businesses have suffered a security breach in the last year, with a little face of an attack almost once a month. About 60 percent of these companies said that human error was to blame for the rape, CompTIA claims that underscores the urgent need for trained personnel to avoid these problems.

The research attributed the staff negligence, failure to update themselves on new threats, and general lack of experience in the field of security as some of the biggest problems holding back workers.

With this in mind, CompTIA Cyber Secure launches education program, which is designed to provide a "basic understanding" cyber security staff in all areas of organizations.

CompTIA vice president Skills and education EMEA Graham Hunter said this is an opportunity for the channel.

"We freely available to our distribution partners and users have 50 licenses," he said. "We have made a commitment and now is to get on the market. It is to raise the bar of awareness of information security in an organization.

"You could say that these [channel] same organizations must go through a level of sensitivity training, as can often be the guardians of important data by the nature of the services they provide. If your staff are protected not in the same way, this could be an easy way. "

Hunter said he hopes programs like CyberSecure has hit the mainstream in corporate human resource services in other corporate training programs same way.

Richard Beck, head of the firm cybersecurity training IT quality control, agreed and said that obtaining personal education about safety is important.

"The best technology in the world will not protect against the actions of an employee who intentionally or by an innocent mistake, opening the door to an attack," he said. "With regard to cybersecurity, companies often take the first technology, training and lags behind in second place. But both must be deployed to the same extent."