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Incredibly, traditional cyber security awareness training may actually decrease security awareness. Here’s how to ensure your security awareness campaigns increase resilience. Last year, researchers looking into the security of mobile devices inadvertently uncovered...

Phishing attacks often seem rudimentary. With their spelling and grammar errors, blurry replicas of company logos and conspicuous twists on sender names, they should be easy to spot, shouldn’t they? So why is it, instead of dying down, phishing attacks are on the...

People are more likely to be a victim of identity theft than any other type of cybercrime… and phishing can be a precursor In order to steal your identity, criminals need to get hold of your personal information. That’s all it really takes to begin opening bank...

In 2018, some reports suggest the number of phishing attacks are falling. Is that really the case? Phishing attacks have been on the rise for a long time now. According to the UK government’s most recent cyber security breaches survey, they cause more data breaches...

To demonstrate why security awareness training so often fails, it’s worth conducting a quick thought experiment. Imagine you’re a smoker and, one day, you find out you’re genetically susceptible to lung cancer. Thanks to your genes, you’re two-three times more likely...

Online security awareness training is now the most popular form of security awareness training in the world. As we noted here, that’s good news when it comes to measuring the effectiveness of security awareness training. Offline, things aren’t so easy to track....

The scope of cyber security awareness training continues to increase. While the below list of topics to include in awareness training is far from exhaustive, each should be a foundational pillar of security awareness campaigns. Building campaigns around the below can...

Generally speaking, traditional security awareness training is delivered in one of four ways: 1. Classroom-based training 2. Visual aids (including video) 3. Through simulated attacks 4. Computer-based training Resource challenges and environmental contexts often...

Reading Time: 4 minutes In 2018 data breaches cost UK organisations an average of £6.4 million.
Human error, meanwhile, accounted for anywhere between 60% and 90% of those breaches.
Those facts alone are usually enough to convince people security awareness training is important.

Reading Time: 3 minutes At the time of writing, Google tells us security awareness training is “a formal process for educating employees about computer security.”You can bet it’s a prevalent definition: the search engine sifts through every indexed web page ever written on the topic to return the single, succinct and simple sentence.

Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s an unfortunate fact, evident to both those who work in security and those who don’t, that security awareness training in its current form isn’t working.

Reading Time: 5 minutes CybSafe’s many technological innovations often intrigue audiences during demonstrations – and elicit questions that aren’t necessarily run-of-the-mill.

Reading Time: 2 minutes Wow. We’re super pumped about life right now. This is because following an investment of £3.5m in Series A funding, our award-winning cyber security awareness platform is poised to explore new territory and continue breaking boundaries.

Reading Time: 3 minutes Have you ever wondered whether your reduced phishing susceptibility rate is really telling the full story? Or wondered why it may be low one week but spike the next?

Reading Time: 3 minutes Let’s talk domains. Not web domains, but domains in life. Areas, specialisms, disciplines – call them what you want. Domain dependence is indeed pervasive. And it could be why so many people struggle to take cyber security as seriously as they should.