Please Note: This is the second article in a series. To view the first of the series, please click here. Your employees are your first line of defense in protecting your network’s security. As seen on USA’s show Mr. Robot, all it can take is one USB found in the company parking lot to peek interest as to the contents, maybe in hopes of identifying the owner, for a hacker to gain access to your network through that employee’s computer. Without the proper education, awareness, and engagement, employees are not equipped to make decisions that continue to protect your network, let alone understand how they may be making the network more vulnerable.

Your network is attractive to hackers, it's important to know why and what they're looking for. Please Note: This is the first article in a series. Nowadays the questions isn’t if you’re going to get attacked, but when and how frequently. It’s a reality that everyone has come to accept but for some reason we still think, in the back of our minds, that it won’t happen to us. (We’ll deny it if you ask.) For you to truly accept that hackers are out there to get you, like monsters under your bed, you have to understand why they are there in the first place. Then you’ll no longer see them as invisible threats but rather ones that are knocking on the doors of your network, trying to see if anyone is home or maybe left the door unlocked.