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Security awareness training: An educational asset you can’t be without

Webroot

Employees represent the first line of defense from malicious vectors that attempt to compromise your organization’s information technology infrastructure through common access points. Being aware is the first step towards protecting your business. Security awareness training (SAT) can help. Why Webroot?

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The Risk-Conscious, Security-Aware Culture: The Forgotten Critical Security Control

Cisco Security

Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) across the Global 2000 and Fortune 1000 are obsessed with protecting the workforce endpoints as critical vulnerabilities in the cybersecurity and risk management posture of their enterprises. Should a risk-conscious, security-aware culture be considered a critical security control?

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Security Awareness Training across an SMB Organization

Spinone

Despite all the technological solutions to any problem in today’s world, there is always the human-factor to consider. The best technology cannot account for the actions and specifically the mistakes that humans can make which may totally undermine the solution that technology provides.

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Introducing Behavioral Information Security

The Falcon's View

For those unfamiliar with Fogg's work, he started out doing research on Persuasive Technology back in the 90s, which has become the basis for most modern uses of technology to influence people (for example, use of Facebook user data to influence the 2016 US Presidential Election). Well, low-and-behold, it already exists!

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GUEST ESSAY: Sure steps to achieve a robust employee cybersecurity awareness training regimen

The Last Watchdog

Employee security awareness is the most important defense against data breaches. Related: Leveraging security standards to protect your company. As such, you should limit the amount of information that employees have access to. As such, you should limit the amount of information that employees have access to.

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Hi-5 With A CISO Dmitriy Sokolovskiy, Avid Technology

Security Boulevard

Dmitriy Sokolovskiy has been working in the cybersecurity space for over 14 years in dedicated security roles, in addition to 9 more years working in various IT areas. He held information security positions in CyberArk for 11 years, and 3 […].

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Cyber Security Awareness and Risk Management

Spinone

Today, c yber security incidents lead to significant damage, alarming organizations of all types and sizes in different geographic locations. The contemporary world has witnessed the rise of the Internet and global communication, and collaboration technologies, including mobile data use and the culture of bring your own device [BYOD].