For many channel partners, such as VARs and MSPs, cybersecurity-awareness training is a first stop in their quest to harden their customers’ networks against attack.
That’s because the human element is most difficult to counter and presents the greatest risk to corporate assets. Obliviously clicking a single rogue email can shutter a company. But once partners pluck the low-hanging fruit, it takes a keen ear and deft emotional skills to educate management about ongoing risks.
Delegates to our Brisbane roundtable discussed how they build urgency to release budget, legal issues of failure, and even their own capability to repel attacks against their managed networks and so save their customers from criminals, thieves and spies.