Security awareness training is education for the people of your organization to better understand safe security protocols that prevent the common ploys of attackers. Through consistent and relevant training, your staff is less likely to fall victim and leave the company vulnerable to an attack.
It may surprise you to find out the biggest threat to your security is your own staff. The characteristics that make them great employees, being nice, helpful, and trusting, make them the first target of smart attackers. Internal staff unwittingly allow threats inside the firewalls of major organizations every single day, with just the click of a mouse.
Cybercriminals understand how easy it is to use the trusting, good nature of everyday people to gain access to your system and eventually, your most sensitive data. Even today, after decades of computer use and security breaches, people need to be formally trained to not click on the link, to not hold open the locked door for the person behind them, and not to believe everyone is who they say they are. Going against our trusting nature takes deliberate training and eye-opening education.
Security awareness training is a requirement of most security compliance standards. For those organizations required to get this training, our virtual program is a convenient and accessible way to improve your security posture in the least disruptive way possible.
We utilize the best security awareness training program platform in the industry and can help you to shape a program for the areas and security topics that matter most to your organization. In a captivating and entertaining digital format, users complete each training session at their own pace. Each learns to recognize common cyber-criminal strategies, how they can prevent them, and how every person plays a crucial role in enforcing company security protocols and procedure
Usually common spam emails, these attempts are designed to obtain a recipient’s usernames, passwords, payment card information, or other personal details by appearing as though it’s from a legitimate source.
Simply following an authorized person through a locked security door.
An email or text to a specific employee, impersonating a CEO, vendor, or manager requesting an immediate wire transfer of funds.
Targeting phishing efforts using a highly-personalized email to specific people using information found on social media or online.
Phone-based phishing in an attempt to get unauthorized system access over the phone under false pretenses.
Malware delivered by email that locks users and organizations out of their system until a ransom is paid.
Making a feature ‘work’ is one thing, making it do so securely is a very different one. Developers are often well trained and experienced in meeting functional objectives, but building defenses against threats into the code is not intuitive, it has to be taught.
Provides guidance on what IT administrators can do to prevent falling victim to common administrative pitfalls and how to stay vigilant of the many techniques attackers will use to try and compromise their credentials or system access.
Provides guidance on the common financial pitfalls that could compromise a company's cash flow, particularly for employees who have access to company cash or credit.
