How to reduce cyber risk during employee onboarding

This sponsored blog post explains why new employees are prime social-engineering targets during onboarding, highlighting risks like phishing via LinkedIn, insecure password sharing (e.g., plaintext email/SMS or verbal handoff), and failure to change temporary credentials. It recommends best practices—principle of least privilege, clear cybersecurity policies, ongoing awareness training, and secure first-day password self-service—promoting Specops solutions to reduce breach likelihood and strengthen password hygiene.