Your One-Page Cybersecurity Cheat Sheet for Staff

Does cybersecurity make your stomach drop? It is not most businesses specialty, but that does not make it any less important. Here is a simple one-page cheat sheet to make it easy for your team to do the right things. Print it, post it in the break room, or send it around as needed.

The golden rule of passwords

Two words: never reuse, never share. If you use your work password on your social accounts and a hacker cracks one of those, or it shows up in a breach, your accounts and the company are both exposed. Use the company-approved password manager, it is there to make strong, unique passwords the easy option. Unique means unique, no recycling, ever.

Use the S.T.O.P. method on every suspicious email

Your most powerful security tool is to slow down and think. Attackers count on click-happy habits, dressing scams up as shipping notices, invoices, and other everyday messages. Run them through S.T.O.P.

S, scrutinize the sender. Does the address match the name? Watch for tiny typos like micr0soft.com instead of microsoft.com.

T, think about the ask. Are they requesting passwords, money, or sensitive data? A legitimate sender almost never will.

O, observe the link. Hover before you click and check where it really goes, rather than trusting the text on the surface.

P, pause and verify. When anything feels off, confirm through a known channel, a quick call to a number you already have, before you act. Two minutes of thought can save the business from a ransomware attack.

Stick to company-approved devices and apps

Only use the devices and applications the company provides. Moving company data onto personal devices or unapproved apps multiplies the risk and breaks backups, encryption, and security. If you think a different tool would help you move faster, ask IT. We are happy to replace slow, dated tools with better ones, we just need to do it without putting data at risk.

We are here to help you do your job, safely. Book a call and we will help you build security habits your whole team can follow.