Training employees to resist the lure of phishing, scams, and deepfakes is central to a good cybersecurity posture, but to be effective it needs to be handled with plenty of input and guidance from ...

What is security awareness training? Security awareness training is a cybersecurity program that aims to educate everyone in an organization about potential cyber threats, as well as actions they can ...

With human error contributing to 95% of all cybersecurity incidents, employees are inevitably the weakest link in any organization's security chain. From falling for ...

Despite employers requiring their employees to complete yearly cybersecurity training courses, human-driven cybersecurity breaches still happen. The problem could even get substantially worse as ...

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Employees across many industries have become familiar with some sort of annual cybersecurity training at their organizations, from watching informational videos to participating in simulated phishing ...

One of the biggest mistakes that low-performing security education programs make is treating security awareness training as if every user impacts security in exactly the same way. Everyone gets the ...

Perry Carpenter is Chief Evangelist for KnowBe4 Inc., provider of the popular Security Awareness Training & Simulated Phishing platform. Interestingly, readily available large language models (LLMs or ...

Imagine this: As part of an exercise to teach security awareness, employees enter a room. An actual, physical operational security "escape room," which at first looks like a regular office room. But ...

In the summer of 2021, analyst Gartner published its Market guide for security awareness computer-based training. It reported that the human element (85%) continues to be a primary catalyst for data ...

First things first. All active employees at the university are required to comply with university information security policies. You can access and read them by visiting the university Policy Library.