As the circumstances surrounding WannaCry, Petya/Goldeneye, the Shadow Brokers and exposed voters' records have shown, cybersecurity events continue to cripple companies no matter their size or industry.

Although cybersecurity is both broad and complex, some best practices can help prevent hackers from successfully infiltrating your customers' operations. A mature cybersecurity program relies on a layered security approach — meaning that no single control is the only source of protection for a corporate asset. Three controls that make up a layered security approach are secure password practices, multi-factor authentication and security awareness training.

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Secure password practices

For many people, it's difficult to remember unique, complex passwords for every website — a complication that leads to password reuse. Unfortunately, cyber criminals recognize this as a normal occurrence. When your credentials are compromised on one site, they will take that username and password and try it other places, with success.

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