The Complete Cybersecurity Training Guide for Banks
How to deploy and manage an effective, easy, and frictionless awareness training program for bank employees Your bank employees are on most cyber hackers’ radar. In fact, at least one of your employees is probably receiving a new phishing email while you’re reading these lines. While most industries worldwide are affected by the imminent peril […]
3 Expert Tips to Launch Your Cyber Security Awareness Training Program In New Heights
Every individual and organization in this digital age is exposed to cyber threats. Cyberattacks often catch you off guard. This is true, especially for new employees or those who have yet to be trained to counter these attacks. For instance, a seemingly harmless email from the organization’s IT Department could be a phishing scam. To […]
5 Security Guidelines for Summer Chilling
We’re all guilty of only engaging with employees when we need something. It could be that we want them to complete a training module or perhaps check a particular box for a compliance requirement. Well, summer is here, and it’s a great opportunity to provide employees with helpful security tips beyond cybersecurity housekeeping! We’re providing […]
What’s in Store for 2022? Five Security Awareness Training Predictions for the New Year
It’s that most wonderful time of the year again! With record growth projected for today’s security services, join us as we look towards the year ahead, and highlight 5 growing security awareness trends to watch out for in 2022. 1. A new category of Managed Services will emerge: the Managed Security Awareness Provider Managed services […]
6 Tips to Overcoming Global Challenges in Employee Security Awareness Training
Most of our customers are multinational companies employing people worldwide. These customers often encounter resource limitations related to reaching out to their distributed employees and engaging them with security awareness. Such limitations take the form of fewer face-to-face meetings (especially during the past couple of years), less customized content, and a lack of familiarity with […]
Automating Cybersecurity Awareness Training for Employees – Beyond the Buzzword
By Omer Taran, CybeReady Co-Founder & CTO Though the word “automation” was not coined until 1947 by Ford Motor Company to describe the use of automatic devices in the company’s production lines, today it is one of the most widely used terms in the tech industry. To most of us it signifies productivity, efficiency and […]
5 Growing Trends to Watch in Banking Cybersecurity
As Cybercrime Against the Financial Sector Jumps by 238%, What Can Banks Do to Address the Risk? The rise of cybercrime in 2020 was widely reported, but did you realize how much of the threat was targeted at the financial sector? 80% of financial institutions have reported a rise in cyberattacks over the past 12 […]
Not again! Another Phishing Simulation Goes Awry – Key lessons from the West Midlands Railway incident
Key lessons from the West Midlands Railway incident and other common mistakes in employee training How resilient are your employees in the face of a phishing scam? That’s the question that many security teams ask themselves on a regular basis. One transport organization, the West Midlands Railway in the UK, was looking to answer […]
5 Reasons Why Text-based Training Beats Video Training Any Day (VIDEO)
There’s a rumor going around that people learn better or engage better with video content over text-based content. It’s easy to see where the misconception came from. After all, the average time every person spends watching videos online is 100 minutes per day. However, this content is all video that the user chooses to engage […]
Is Spear Phishing Employees an Effective Training Technique? (VIDEO)
There is a common mistake in security awareness training, where teams spend time creating complex and sophisticated phishing simulations that are meant to mimic spear-phishing attacks or business email compromise threats against high-up employees within a business. The truth is, even the simple use of the words ‘spear phishing’, means that you’re approaching the phishing […]
How to Mitigate the High-risk Employee Group Effectively? (VIDEO)
Let’s try to visualize a high-risk employee. What do you see? We all know some employees are considered more high-risk than others. These are the ones who fall for cyber-attacks more often. In fact, in many organizations, we see that a very small group of less than 20% of the overall employees is statistically responsible […]
How should I report Progress of my Security Awareness Training to the C-suite? (VIDEO)
We’ve talked before about measuring progress rather than sheer participation to prove the worth of your security awareness training. Here’s how to prepare yourself for a meeting with the C-suite, including the metrics that really matter. Sidestepping the Focus on the Click Rate When you speak to the board, it can feel natural to reach […]
Go Beyond Click Rate: Start Measuring Real Progress in Security Awareness Training (VIDEO)
How do I know if my security awareness training is working? This is one of the most common questions that we get asked, and it’s usually because our customer has traditionally relied on click rate to measure success. Let’s look at the fallacy of the click rate metric in more detail. What is Click Rate […]
How Can I Get Employees to Engage with Security Awareness Programs (VIDEO)
How Can I Get Employees to Engage with Security Content? How do you know if your security awareness training is making a difference? Effective learning can only be shown by a change in employee behavior, and when it comes to cybersecurity that isn’t always easy to promote. You want your employees to engage with your […]
3 Tips for Kicking-off a Meaningful Security Awareness Program (VIDEO)
Often when customers approach us, their existing security awareness training is spread very thinly. It’s trying to cover it all and includes assets and focus areas across every part of security and the organization. Organizations want to train for everything, and so they struggle to effectively train for anything. Here are our three best practices […]
Understanding the Impact of Automated Clicks on Phishing Simulation Training
Automated clicks are the outcome of security tools used by security teams to check and validate the status of email links. By clicking on the links, or ‘detonating’ the URL in a safe, sandbox environment, external security tools verify that the links are not malicious before a business has a chance to fall victim to […]
Global Banking Regulations – What does the future hold and how to keep up with the frequent changes?
2020 brought with it an alarming level of cyber threat against banks, which spurred government officials to call for new levels of regulation. In September 2020, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report asking for the US Treasury Department to create a unified task force with the Department of Homeland Security intended to protect […]
Better than Zoom, Cisco and Cofence! How Did CybeReady Score a 78 NPS?
At CybeReady, we strive to improve every day (weekends included)! Over the past two years we’ve asked our customers, “How likely are you to recommend CybeReady’s Autonomous Security Awareness Training to a colleague?” When the results came through from hundreds of customers, we proudly calculated an average Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 78! How does […]
Three Simple Steps for an Effective, Two-Way Communication in a Changing Security Environment
By nature, security departments communicate organization-wide updates on an ongoing basis and, to some extent, rely on open employee communication. As organizations transition to remote work, security teams face a new reality in terms of internal communications and need to overcome major challenges in order to keep employees both engaged and secure. One of the […]
Assessing Your Phishing Risks: More Than Just Click Rate
How do you measure the success of a phishing simulation? If you’re like many people in the cybersecurity community, you may find yourself focusing on statistics like click rates to determine whether or not you’ve led an effective anti-phishing campaign. After all, if subsequent simulations generate fewer clicks, surely that means your employees have understood […]
