Strengthen Your Defence with Security Awareness Training

Discover the importance of security awareness training and how it can enhance your cybersecurity.

Empower Your Business with Security Awareness Training

Introduction

Users still account for approximately 80% of successful cyber-attacks. Security awareness training equips staff with the knowledge and skills they need to recognize and respond to cyber threats effectively. This makes security awareness training a powerful tool for any businesses security arsenal.

What is Security Awareness Training?

Security awareness training is an educational program designed to get staff thinking about cybersecurity and how they can help to keep both a company and their personal data safe. It aims to enhance staffs understanding of security risks and empower them to make informed decisions, which in turn helps to protect a company’s assets and data.

Why Invest in Security Awareness Training?

Security awareness training offers several benefits for businesses looking to strengthen their cybersecurity defences:

Enhanced Security Culture – By providing guidance to staff, it changes their way of thinking about cyber threats and creates a culture of supporting each other rather than being fearful of being caught out.
Risk Mitigation – Educated staff are better equipped to recognise phishing attempts, malware, and other cyber threats, reducing the likelihood of successful attacks. By training staff to recognise the various threats effectively, companies can rest easy knowing that their data is more secure today than ever before.
Compliance Requirements – Due to the change in the threat landscape, insurance companies and regulators are starting to make security awareness training a requirement. This makes sense as an educated member of staff could be the difference between a fraudulent payment from a compromised supplier email and it simply being recognised as spear phishing.

How Training Programs Can Help

Security awareness training programs are designed to meet the needs of your company:

Interactive Learning – Phishing campaigns being sent on a regular basis allow managers to identify who within a business is most likely to fall victim to a suspicious email. Reports can be generated giving a breakdown of the number of times a user may have failed to spot the campaign. It then provides the users with training videos, to educate them as to how to spot it next time.
Ongoing Support – We provide ongoing support and assistance with the continued training of your staff. This benefits the company by:
- It allows for new types of attacks to be shown to employees in an attempt to train them prior to receiving a real attack of this nature.
- Using different types of attacks, as this will be the case in the real world.
- Staff are continiously thinking about cyber security as they don’t know when the next test may occur.

Going beyond training

Alongside training for staff, an additional layer of protection can be implemented that works with exchange, office 365 and google workspace email systems. Not only does it help to reduce the number of suspicious emails that staff receive. Staff can report emails that they do receive, which updates the solution centrally so it knows how to deal with these emails going forward. It can also protect against compromised accounts by automatically locking them out and generating an alert.

Conclusion

Security awareness training is a critical tool for any businesses seeking to mitigate the risk of cyber-attacks. By educating staff about security risks and how to deal with them, companies can reduce the likelihood of successful attacks, and demonstrate compliance with regulatory requirements. Training programs will provide your staff with the knowledge and skills to actively recognise and deal with threats they encounter.

If you would like a demo of our security awareness solution, please contact us on 01233 223344 or emails sales@virtec.co.uk