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Learn How Security Awareness Can Help Prevent Insider Threats in Your Organization
Tue, 12/08/2020
Actionable security awareness tips on how employees can prevent insider threats
A misplaced USB drive with confidential data. An opportunistic employee sharing confidential information with a competitor. An employee who accidentally clicks a phishing email. These are all examples of insider threats to your organization.
Insider threats unfortunately are not simply the stuff...
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The Latest Click Rate Benchmarking for Security Awareness Leaders
This report gives cyber security and risk management leaders real-world phishing benchmarking data and lets organizations see how their click rate stacks up against their peers in multiple categories, including:
Industry
Organization size (number of employees)
Geographical location
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Cyber vigilance and working from home: Defending against cyber threats
Tue, 11/24/2020
Putting your users first: How security awareness training can protect your hybrid workforce against increasing cyber threats.
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How to Stop Your Employees Falling Victim to Shipping Notification Scams this Holiday Season
Tue, 11/24/2020
With Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Thanksgiving, and the Christmas holidays fast approaching, cyber criminals are working round the clock to create new scams, such as the shipping notification scam, to phish for private information and commit identity fraud.
As many employees will be shopping online during working hours, cyber security leaders need to educate employees on...
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Examining The 2020 Healthcare Ransomware Surge
Fri, 11/06/2020
How to Protect Against Ryuk Ransomware
As countries worldwide struggle to come to grips with the Covid-19 pandemic, attackers have attempted to capitalize by launching a wave of ransomware attacks on hospitals across the U.S. and Canada. These attacks have taken place in locations ranging from New York, Nebraska, Ohio, Missouri, and Michigan, to Montreal, by using Ryuk...
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How To Protect Remote Financial Services Employees from Cyber Attacks
Thu, 10/29/2020
Security awareness training for financial services and bank employees must be a top priority. While financial services institutions have long been prime targets for cybercriminals, as most attacks are financially motivated, the shift to remote work business models and operations has heightened cyber security risk levels. Recent data reinforces why financial services CISOs and...
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The 2020 Security Awareness Virtual Summit for Partners: Here’s What You Need to Know
Mon, 10/26/2020
Robust, engaging security awareness training is an essential part of strong cyber security practices, especially given the accelerated digital transformation and shift by many organizations to remote workforces.
It can also be a crucial value-added product for resellers, distributors, MSSPs, OEMs partners and technology partners, who are looking to expand their portfolio,...
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How Security Awareness Training Targets and Changes User Phishing Behaviors
Thu, 10/08/2020
Learn the secrets behind effectively managing the human element of cyber security -- watching the Terranova Security presentation from the 2020 Forrester Security and Risk Virtual Forum on-demand!
This presentation, from author and Terranova Security's Lise Lapointe, includes expert insight into:
Why high-quality content that’s available in multiple formats, accessible to...
Guide
How to Protect Your Data from Social Engineering
Download the whitepaper and find out everything you need to know about social engineering, including:
Who can be targeted with a social engineering scheme
Why these kinds of attacks are so effective
How social engineering leverages human emotions to steal data
The easy steps you can take to keep your data safe
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3 Ways Communication Tools Can Improve Security Awareness Training
Fri, 09/04/2020
To create a truly effective security awareness training program, your organization must also build a clear, engaging internal communication structure to match.
This process involves more than just sending out one or two mass emails to let employees know such a program exists. It’s about establishing a consistent drumbeat of content distribution that grows participation numbers...
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The CRA Cyber Attack: Here’s What You Need to Know
Fri, 08/21/2020
In mid-August, cybercriminals targeted the Canada Revenue Agency with two credential stuffing attacks, obtaining the usernames and passwords of 9,041 GCKey accounts, and 5,500 CRA accounts. The fraudsters then used the stolen login credentials to apply for the Canadian Emergency Response Benefit (CERB).
In response to the attack, a statement released by the Office of the Chief...
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How to Protect Your Data from the Microsoft Office 365 Phishing Scam
Fri, 07/31/2020
Since December 2019, there has been a coordinated campaign of phishing attempts targeting Office 365 users. Cyber criminals have sent spoofed email, gathering the login credentials and payment details of Microsoft accounts in over 62 countries.
According to one report, despite a 42% reduction in phishing attempts in 2019, scams like this Microsoft Office 365 campaign remain a...
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What the Twitter Hack Revealed About Social Engineering
Thu, 07/23/2020
Less than a week ago, Twitter fell victim to a monumental security breach that saw hackers successfully orchestrate a social engineering attack and take over high-profile Twitter user accounts, including world-renowned companies like Apple and business magnates like Bill Gates and Elon Musk.
The cybercriminals used that access to launch a bitcoin scam that generated over $120...
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This is Why You Need Mobile Responsive Security Awareness Training
Tue, 06/30/2020
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Hint: It has everything to do with effective mobile learning.
The past decade’s explosion of smartphone and tablet usage has magnified the importance of well-designed mobile responsive content as a vital part of any training program. Recent studies echo clear mobile learning preference statistics, including how:
70% of learners feel more motivated when training...