User Awareness
Human Risk Management
Reduce the risk of a costly data breach related to user activities and demonstrate compliance efforts through measurable employee human risk management programs.
Enhancing the cybersecurity knowledge and skills of your workforce is crucial for building a robust defense against cyber threats. Educating employees about potential risks and best practices can significantly decrease the likelihood of successful cyberattacks, such as phishing, and promote a culture of cybersecurity awareness within the organization.
Humans make mistakes
90% of successful data breaches are due to human error
Humans
are targets
At least 1 out of every 3 successful data breaches involve phishing
Compliance is essential
Key standards like ISO 27001 or SOC2 require regular training
Make employees your first line of defence
Security awareness is crucial for protecting your organization from threats. We offer comprehensive security awareness training programs designed to assess and strengthen each user’s knowledge gaps.
Regular Bite-sized Training: We provide regular, bite-sized training courses tailored to individual users’ security knowledge gaps and prioritize them based on their risk areas.
Phishing Simulation: Periodic simulations identify employees susceptible to phishing attacks, allowing us to educate those at high risk.
Dark Web Monitoring: We safeguard exposed user accounts by monitoring the dark web for stolen credentials, such as passwords.
Policy Management: We ensure users are well-versed in security policies and procedures by tracking eSignature approvals from a pre-loaded library of core documents
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Estimates suggest that in 2021 a cyber attack took place every 11 seconds.
$6T
Cyber attacks were projected to hit $6 trillion in annual losses in 2021, which has doubled since 2015.
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The average business cost of a cyber attack is $3.86 million and breaches take over 200 days to be detected.
The User Awareness Score is a crucial metric that quantifies the level of cybersecurity awareness among your organization’s employees. In today’s digital landscape, where human error can lead to significant security breaches, it’s crucial to measure and understand the effectiveness of your cybersecurity training and awareness programs. This score helps identify areas where employees are most vulnerable, allowing for targeted improvements in training and education.
The User Awareness Score is derived from a comprehensive analysis of various factors, including employee responses to simulated cyber attacks (such as phishing tests), their participation and performance in cybersecurity training modules, and their understanding and adherence to company security policies.
Ethical Phishing
Our ethical phishing services entail simulated phishing campaigns crafted to assess and enhance employee awareness and response to phishing attacks. This hands-on approach aids in pinpointing areas requiring additional training.
We devise and implement controlled phishing campaigns mimicking real-life attack scenarios. The outcomes are analyzed to offer insights into employee susceptibility to phishing attacks, followed by targeted training to rectify identified weaknesses.
Adapted Training Program
We offer comprehensive training programs tailored to various roles within your organization. These programs encompass essential cybersecurity principles, safe computing practices, and methods for recognizing and responding to security threats.
User Training is delivered through interactive modules and workshops. We cover a range of topics, including password management, email security, and safe internet practices. Our training is regularly updated to address emerging threats and trends.
4 Key Causes of a User-Related Data Breach
1. Human error :
An employee mistake, such as a simple typo, may seem small, but the repercussions can be significant. For many businesses, a human error-related breach has resulted in fines, loss of customer trust, and loss of access to data.
Common ways that risky employee behavior can lead to a security incident include:
- Sharing, writing down or re-using passwords across multiple accounts
- Carelessly handling data, such as entering the wrong email recipient or attaching the wrong file
- Lack of awareness of common threats, such as spear phishing emails
- Failing to understand that security is the responsibility of all employees, not just a problem for the IT department
2. Falling victim to a phishing attack:
The most common way for an employee to cause a security breach is by falling victim to a phishing attack. With phishing becoming more targeted and sophisticated than ever before, employees are finding it increasingly difficult to detect these attacks.
The cunning techniques attackers employ to deceive your employees:
- Spear Phishing — These highly personalized attacks target specific individuals or groups, with the attacker conducting prior research into an often senior-level target.
- Business Email Compromise — If an attacker gains access to a legitimate email account, they can exploit colleagues by posing as a trusted source through a BEC attack.
- Domain Spoofing — An attacker can falsify the display name and sender address of an email to make it appear as if it originated from within the company or from a trusted vendor.
When employees reuse passwords across various accounts, they inadvertently create a vulnerability that can be exploited by attackers. This poses a significant risk to your system’s security, as studies show that 61% of security breaches involve stolen credentials, resulting in an average business loss of $4.37 million (USD).
Here’s how compromised credentials typically occur:
- An employee registers for multiple third-party services using the same business email and password.
- One of these third-party services experiences a data breach, exposing the user’s credentials.
- The compromised credentials are then sold on the dark web, providing attackers with potential access to multiple accounts.
4. Lack of security policies and processes :
Without having the proper policies and processes in place, employees are less likely to know whom they should report phishing attacks to or who is allowed access to which sensitive data.
Information security policies and processes:
- Guide employee behavior when it comes to handling company information and keeping IT systems secure.
- Protect your organization’s critical information by clearly outlining employee security responsibilities.
- Prevent unauthorized disclosure, disruption, loss, access, use, or modification of an organization’s information assets.
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