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Companies from highly regulated industries such as healthcare, finance, legal, customer service, and
human resources have to follow strict standards to safeguard customer and company data. Educate your
workforce on the dangers of device sharing. Company devices should never be left unattended,
especially in a public place like a coffee shop. But even in the comfort of their homes, employees must
know that sharing their company laptop with an unauthorized user is never okay — even if it’s for
something “innocent” like letting your kid watch Netflix on your device. One wrong click and you’re risking
a phishing scam, accidental file deletion, or violating compliance regulations like HIPAA, PCI DSS,
GDPR, and SOC2.

Unfortunately, relying on your employees alone is more of a “hope & pray” strategy. Security teams must
implement continuous endpoint authentication solutions that constantly verify an employee's identity in
the background throughout the day without being a burden.

Want To Lower Your Cyber Insurance Premium? Mitigate Risk.

In a work-from-anywhere environment, company devices are more vulnerable than ever before. The
biggest thing you can do to lower your cyber insurance premiums is to reduce your overall risk. While it
takes time to build a truly robust security infrastructure, taking the steps we covered above like Education,
Strong password policy, 2FA/MFA, Least privilege, and most importantly protecting your devices with
continuous endpoint authentication will immediately improve your security posture — giving you more
leverage to negotiate and reduce your cybersecurity premium.

About the Author

Raul Popa is the CEO, Co-Founder, and Data Scientist at
TypingDNA — an award-winning cybersecurity startup that
authenticates people by the way they type on computers and
mobile devices. Typing biometrics technology is currently
being used in our suite of Continuous Authentication and
2FA products. Raul and TypingDNA have won multiple
awards and were featured in TechCrunch, Forbes,

VentureBeat, TheNextWeb, ProductHunt, FinancialTimes,
and other top publications. Raul was recognized in the Top
60 AI Influencers from Eastern Europe and was featured in
the Top 100 New Europe list of influencers. As a tech innovator Raul speaks about AI, Biometrics, Identity
Access Management and entrepreneurship at global events such as TEDx, Applied Machine Learning
Days, World Summit AI, International Biometrics Summit, Future of AI (at European Parliament), How To
Web, TechFest, any many others. Connect with Raul on LinkedIn and Twitter, or at
https://www.typingdna.com/

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