Security Awareness Training
Transform Your Employees
Into Your Biggest Defensive Asset
Reduce Cyber Risk Caused by Human Error
An estimated 90% of security breaches are caused by human error, yet many organisations don’t have a program in place to protect the human attack surface. With our security awareness training and phishing simulation solution, you can reduce your organisation’s chance of experiencing a cybersecurity disaster by up to 70%.
- Educate and empower employees to spot and stop phishing threats and follow cybersecurity best practices.
- Automate training campaigns and reporting for effortless, set-it-and-forget-it training that gets results.
- Satisfy requirements for cyber liability insurance purchase or renewal by having strong cybercrime protections — like a user security awareness training program — in place.
- Maintain compliance with industry regulations and avoid high fees for non-compliance by conducting ongoing security awareness training.
FAQ
Most frequent asked questions and answers
Security awareness training is the process of educating employees about security risks, policies and procedures as well as good and bad security practices and how to maintain compliance with the security components of regulatory requirements.
The main purpose of security awareness training for employees is to reduce the company’s risk of a cyberattack or data security incident. This is done by educating employees about how to spot and avoid security risks, cyberattacks and bad practices. Training also educates employees about security policies and how to maintain regulatory compliance in locations or industries
Security awareness training is critically important for companies to avoid cyberattacks and expensive data disasters in today’s volatile risk landscape. Employees that are educated about security risks can better avoid cybercriminal traps like phishing and business email compromise. Training also prevents data mishandling that could result in steep non-compliance fines.
Security awareness training for employees brings an array of benefits to businesses, including a drastic reduction in the number of security incidents that an organization experiences. Training ensures everyone knows that they are responsible for doing their part to maintain security and compliance, making employees more likely to adhere to security policies and procedures. A security awareness training program also arms employees with knowledge that helps them avoid cybercriminal tricks like phishing.
Employees should receive training monthly for the best results. New employees should receive additional training as part of the onboarding process to ensure they’re knowledgeable about a company’s policies and procedures. No one, not even top executives or IT staffers, should be exempt from training.
A successful security awareness training program starts with choosing the right training solution. Our innovative and complete solution provides short, easy-to-understand training videos in multiple languages with quizzes to measure retention. It will also include phishing simulations with options for content customization or plug-and-play campaigns. It is also critical that the library of available video lessons and phishing simulation campaign kits is updated regularly.
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Security Training Made Easy
• Choose from a rich set of plug-and-play phishing simulation kits and animated video lessons accompanied by short quizzes — and ensure that training reaches every employee no matter how tech-averse they are.
• Easily schedule training and phishing campaigns up to a year in advance. Reports show training results for the entire organisation as well as individual employees and get delivered automatically to designated recipients.
• Customise phishing emails, sending email addresses and attachments to your needs to mimic threats specific to your organisation and increase training effectiveness.
• Up-to-date phishing kits and videos to reflect the current threat landscape and keep your employees on the lookout for trouble.
