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Everyone has a cellphone. Ask them to browse on their personal device. Prohibiting casual Internet browsing will significantly reduce the risk of getting hacked.
Sometimes giving someone access to corporate email is more trouble than it's worth. If you have employees who don't need to communicate with people outside of the company by email, then turn off their email accounts.
Ignore the complaints and groaning and enforce Multi-Factor authentication or you are going to get hacked. Simple as that.
Don't let employees install their own software. Many ransomware attacks start with someone thinking they need to install something.
Computer viruses don't just show up on your computer out of the blue. You get them from browsing the Internet, or they come packaged in an email. If you don't have tight control over what kinds of websites employees are browsing, or what kinds of emails they interact with, then you will need antivirus software. I recommend Windows Defender.
The consensus in 2024 from Microsoft, NIST, and many others is that password changes are bad and make people come up with worse passwords. I think there is some truth in that, but also think it's common sense that changing a password sometimes is better than never changing it. So changing it once a year seems reasonable enough.
Resist the complaints about reboots, stand strong and make sure auto updates are enabled.
Backup so that you don't have to care about losing data if an employee's computer gets lost, stolen, or ransomwared.
Your file share is what is going to get ransomwared. Move files to cloud storage like OneDrive and SharePoint.
Macros in Office files are commonly used to install ransomware. Unless you have a specific business need for macros, disable them completely across your organization.
Windows is a great platform, but most malware and ransomware is currently designed to target Windows rather than Mac. While this could change in the future, right now Macs face fewer malware threats simply because they're less targeted.
Even if your company occasionally has legitimate gift card purchases, tell employees that management will NEVER ask them to buy gift cards. Make them truly believe this. Scammers are attempting this trick daily, pretending to be executives asking for urgent gift card purchases.
Advise employees not to use company email for personal services or registrations. When work and personal life blend in email, employees become less cautious about clicking links and downloading attachments.
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