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Choose Your Own Adventure game animates security awareness training

SC Magazine

The employees at your organization are badly in need of security awareness training. “B” is obviously the correct choice, but not all companies succeed in motivating their workers to learn the ins and outs of phishing, social engineering and other cyber threats. What do you do? That’s the fun part of it.

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Why the Language of Cybersecurity Awareness Needs to be More Accessible

BH Consulting

Most importantly of all, is it really helping them to change their security behaviour security for the better? Victoria Baines has literally written the book about the language we often find in the industry, ‘ Rhetoric of Insecurity ’. The guest, Andra Zaharia, is a content marketer and champion of ‘cyber empathy’.

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Cybersecurity Is Not A One-Stop-Shop

Security Boulevard

Since this hybrid and remote way of working looks like it’s here to stay, businesses must ensure they have the right infrastructure in place to combat any cyber threats. However, these innovative tools and solutions cannot be implemented without educating users and embedding a cyber security-aware culture throughout the workforce.

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September Snafus: Hackers Take Advantage of Unwitting Employees

Approachable Cyber Threats

IHG’s booking sites and apps were unavailable for several days as a result. Security Awareness Training is an essential way to help employees understand how to recognize and prevent phishing and social engineering attempts. In the IHG hack, a couple from Vietnam claimed they were attempting to deploy ransomware on the network.

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Cybersecurity Training and Tech Aren’t Enough; ‘Culture Change’ Needed

eSecurity Planet

But two veteran security experts, Peter Carpenter and Kai Roer, at employee cybersecurity training leader KnowBe4 say business leaders are overlooking a hacker’s primary way into a system: vulnerable and exploitable human workers. They say that the best defense against cyber threats is in an organization’s security culture.

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7 Cyber Security Courses Online For Everybody

Spinone

Security Awareness Training from Advisera Advisera offers lots of tools like books, courses, and guidelines for those who want to know more about compliance standards and become security-aware. Cyber Attack Countermeasures: Teaches about cyber defense and basic cryptography.

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Why MSPs Need to Shift from Cybersecurity to Cyber Resilience

Webroot

Download our Lockdown Lessons e-book today. What’s driving the need for cyber resilience? Being cyber resilient means that a company has both the ability to prevent attacks and also to mitigate damage and maintain business continuity when systems or data have been compromised. It can take a village to prevent cyber threats.