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On Demand Webinar: Influencing specific security behaviors: Real-world examples
FREE WEBINAR Influencing specific security behaviors: Real-world examples How the CybSafe platform can help you influence (and change) specific security behaviorsHow long have you been relying on traditional security awareness training to lower your human risk?...
It’s time to stop exposing yourself online
In last week’s Behave Series blog, we explored phishing simulations, and how to put them to work in your organization.This week, we’re staging an intervention. Because you've just got to stop revealing so much of yourself to Internet strangers. Oh, and, we’re talking...
A new approach to simulated phishing
A new approach to simulated phishingHow to run simulated phishing campaigns (the right way) and reduce your human cyber riskAnyone can be phished. Anyone. All it takes is the right email, sent at the right time, in the right situation. Yeah, that’s a lot of ‘rights’...
Goodbye, security awareness training!
It’s time to pull the plug on traditional security awareness training We know it’s hard to let go. But this is getting out of hand. Traditional security awareness training has been on its deathbed for so long now that our eyes water whenever we get a whiff of...
How to get phishing simulations right
As part of our Behave Series last week, we talked about multi-factor authentication (MFA), and how to encourage your people to adopt it.This week, we’re diving into phishing simulations. They’re particularly useful for finding and filling the security cracks in your...
On Demand Webinar: Security awareness is dead (or dying)
FREE WEBINAR Security awareness is dead (or dying) Reducing human cyber risk in your organizationOn demandSecurity awareness is dead. Or, at the very least, is dying. Think about it. You have a modern business. Or maybe you’re just trying to keep up with the...
Spotlight: Have you got the multi-factor?
Last week in our Behave Series blog we looked at passwords. This week we’re turning it up to 11. This week, we’re talking about multi-factor authentication (MFA). Multi-factor authentication. It’s the unsung hero of cybersecurity. It’s thwarted many a cybercriminal....
Spotlight: Creating a passphrase ruleset
This week we’re focusing on passwords. We know you’re no stranger to these, and neither are your workforce. But familiarity isn’t helpful here. In fact, it’s a criminal’s best friend. Everyone in your business will have at least three or four passwords in their...
Phishing webinar hot take: Insurance executives need to get it together
Look, anyone can be phished. Yes, even the executives in their fancy suits. But that’s not what we’re here to talk about. We’re here to talk about some of the reasons why phishing risk isn’t being properly managed. And yes, that means we’re calling out the higher ups...
10 key cyber security awareness training topics in 2022
The scope of cyber security awareness training continues to increase. This is a stark reminder that we need to be aware of the risks and take necessary measures to protect our data and ourselves. While the below list of cyber security awareness topics to include in...
You’ve been doing phishing simulations wrong all along
You might want to sit down for this one. If you haven’t been phished, then you probably think your phishing simulations are working. If you have been phished, then you probably think your new simulations are working and that it won’t happen again. And those are pretty...
Legal webinar recap: 3 hard truths we learned about lawyers
For most law firms, ransomware is just another cyber threat. And, as we all know when it comes to all cyber threats, an anti-virus, firewall, traditional SA&T, and a positive “it won’t happen to us” attitude are enough to ward them off, right? Wrong. Very,...
How to make money with law firms and ransomware
Law firms + ransomware = profit For cyber criminals. Are you a cyber criminal? No? Well, you might want to stick around anyway, especially if you work for a law firm. Why? Because we’re breaking down three steps every career criminal can take to get (malware)...
Ebook: Ransomware is boring
Ransomware is boring So make sure you never have to deal with it againRansomware is on the rise. But you already know that. Because it’s constantly in the news. While it’s easy to buy into the fearmongering, the truth is that the threat is manageable … with your...
On Demand Webinar: How to attack law firms using ransomware
FREE WEBINAR How to attack law firms using ransomware. And how to teach people to spot the signs.Client data is big business. And the legal sector is a gold mine. So much sensitive data. So little security. Yeah, most firms have technological security measures...
On Demand Webinar: Reducing phishing risk in the insurance industry
FREE WEBINAR Reducing phishing risk in the insurance industry Everything they haven't told you about phishing.How do you know if your phishing simulations are working? Are you measuring click rates? Well, then you're just measuring the phishing email’s...
Triple-pronged Threat: The Cyber Security Challenge
Financial services have quickly evolved in recent years. They’ve had to. With more people remote working, they’re accessing systems from a greater number of touchpoints. They’re working unusual hours. Yet, in a period of accelerated change not everything has kept up...
Financial services: making the new hybrid working world work
Financial services: making the new hybrid working world workHow can financial services adapt to a different working culture? The old ways are gone. Post-2020, remote working is commonplace across every industry, including financial services. Organisations have adapted...
7 reasons why security awareness training is important
Data breaches cost UK organisations an average of £2.9 million per breach. 82% of breaches involve the human element. Those facts alone are usually enough to convince people that cyber security awareness training for employees is important for data protection....
A Security Awareness Practitioner’s guide to InfoSec 2022
Infosecurity Europe is kinda like prom night for the information security community. You know, if prom was a three-day event. Really, think about it. We look forward to it all year, plan our outfits, get haircuts, meet up with all our infosec friends and take a...
Fighting cybercrime: how globally-recognised training can turn the tide
The innovative, groundbreaking training from CybSafe has been recognised in the global CyberTech100 list. It’s good news for us, and a nice certificate for the wall. But it’s good news for you too. It’s recognition of our work in...