Making New Hires? Watch Out for Surprising Security Risks
Is Your New Hire Susceptible to a Cyberattack? Hiring new team members always feels like a risk. But it could be adding different kinds of risk than you think. Picture this: your business is growing, or you’re replacing an employee that’s moved on. You find the perfect candidate, who signs a contract and joins the team. But after hiring that person, things just don’t go as smoothly as you had hoped. Even worse, that new employee makes a seemingly obvious mistake, opening up your business to digital risk or even a full-on cyberattack. Here’s the truth: it’s not just you, and you don’t have terrible luck in hiring. There’s more going on here. New Employees Are Vulnerable It’s true of any of us: there’s a certain level of vulnerability when you’re new at something, or you’re in a new environment. Think of all the things that even highly-skilled new employees don’t know: Every aspect of their job The company culture The names and personalities of the rest of the team Your IT policies Wor...