How to engage employees in security awareness training

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After about 30 years of companies being connected to networks and the internet and about that long dealing with cybersecurity threats, one thing is absolutely certain: the best way to secure your network and keep your data safe is with aware employees.

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What Is Cyber Security Awareness?

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Cybersecurity awareness is more than simply knowing about cyber threats. It’s a series of trainings, policies, and actions that lead to a higher level of security in your business or organisation.

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Ransomware - What you need to know

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You hear about it all the time, from your tech people to the evening news. Ransomware seems to be everywhere and it seems like there’s a new and nastier version every day. 

The truth is that ransomware is very popular with criminals and it can be very difficult to beat once you’re infected. 

It is possible to prevent ransomware from getting onto your network in the first place and perhaps reset your system if you do get infected.

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The Top 10 Security Awareness Topics

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Security Awareness training is essential for companies but can be a daunting task. 

Recently the new General data protection regulation (GDPR) took effect in Europe.  Compliance is necessary for all companies and this new regulation makes it mandatory for many companies to assign a dedicated Data Protection Officer (DPO) to handle their data security affairs.  

There are a lot of things to consider with regards to GDPR, security awareness training for your employees being one of the most crucial things. That's where we can help.

It is crucial that all your people are aware of the cyber security threats out there. 

To give you an idea of what kinds of things your organisation is dealing with, here is my Top 10 list of Security Awareness Topics - the kinds of things everyone in your organisation needs to be aware of today!

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AwareGO is at Booth K70 in Infosec London.

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We are attending Infosec Europe at the Olympia hall in London from June 5th - June 7th. 

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Is Security Awareness Training getting outdated?

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You are responsible for security awareness training, but you are not a teacher. Am I right?

So why are you responsible for training, when it is your responsibility to protect the company's data?

The truth is, hackers, like most people, tend to choose the path of least resistance when they compromise the security of organisations.
 
This path is very often through people, and cyber security threats are exploited through human behaviour. It is usually the uninformed employees that lead to the breaches.
 
Unfortunately human behaviour is predictable and we are thus vulnerable to attacks.
 
The good news is that through training and awareness the risk from these threats can be reduced.
 
Back to the training part. What you need to understand is that some of your employees are lazy.
 
They might recognize that security awareness training is essential, but they want it to be over as fast as possible.
 
Employees don't want to struggle to read and digest boring security awareness text. They want to be able to understand it quickly and efficiently and continue with their day-to-day job.
 
Just because they want to absorb this content quickly doesn't mean quick training programs are ineffective.
 
A video, however, is a tool that can take your security training from boring to exciting.
 
30 seconds of video is capable of conveying much more information than any text.
 
Videos have been used for marketing purposes for some time now. According to HubSpot, video is here to stay [1]. YouTube is also the world's second largest search engine, which supports that.
 
According to an  report from HubSpot Research, 54% of consumers want to see videos from brands they support. [1]
 
 
So it's strange, then, that some people don't understand how useful it is to include videos in their training program.
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