Digitization makes it easier to perform and complete business accurately and in a short time. However, using the Internet and other technological technologies within a business environment necessarily entails significant cyber risks, ranging from breaching or destroying cyber infrastructure, data theft, financial extortion, and ransomware attacks. This can lead to significant financial losses, privacy violations, and business disruption. Therefore, cybersecurity is of paramount importance to all organizations, and the commitment of organizations and their employees to cybersecurity principles is a key factor in achieving workplace security and consolidating digital safety.
The National Digital Safety Initiative is keen to educate workers in business institutions in general, and financial and banking institutions in particular, about the principles of cybersecurity, and the importance of ensuring the security of the work environment and protecting official data. For example, the Digital Safety Risk Guide addresses the most prominent digital threats that government sector workers in general, and workers in the financial, banking, service, and community sectors in particular, with a detailed explanation of the foundations and rules for protecting personal, professional, and financial files and data, and how to ensure the security of networks and data from cyber breaches.
The initiative's awareness content also focuses on supporting and enhancing cybersecurity indicators for business employees, introducing the most important practices and procedures aimed at protecting information and electronic systems from digital attacks, and raising awareness of the most prominent cyber threats that business organizations may face, such as: ransomware attacks, impersonation, data hacking, and electronic extortion, the importance of advanced cyber protection for these organizations, and the foundations of dealing with cyber threats in the business sector in general In the financial sector and banking specifically, it is the sector most vulnerable to cyber attacks for the purpose of theft or fraud.
Awareness content also highlights the importance of following best security practices in organizations to improve cybersecurity indicators. The most important of these practices are: using strong and distinctive passwords, constantly updating the programs used in the framework, installing and updating antivirus programs, creating data backups, and training work teams
