It’s extremely common for businesses to see their yearly cyber training modules as a tick in the box, then everybody moves on.
But everything changes when one of your staff clicks a link they’re not supposed to. Suddenly, the whole company is in turmoil. That’s the last thing we want to happen.
Cyber training isn’t just a yearly module. This is a constant assignment for your business and your staff. So that begs the question, what makes cyber awareness training effective?
Let’s find out.
There’s a comfortable myth that cyber risk soley lies with a new starter, or less technically confident staff member. That’s not the case.
In reality. It can happen to absolutely anyone.
Whether you‘re a managing director, a new starter, or even a member of the IT department, it’s not far-fetched that the catalyst of a cyber crisis could be anybody within the company.
But that’s the whole point of a malicious attack, for example, a competent phishing email is crafted to catch somebody on a busy day, so it could happen to anybody with an email.
Once you accept that fact, the proper training can begin. It’s all about building preventive habits across your workplace.
“We already do annual training” – That is a great start, but attending a mandatory course doesn’t tell you if you’d efficiently safeguard your business’s cyber space months down the line.
“We’re too small to be a target” – Smaller businesses are actually primary targets for malicious software. They assume that because your operation is smaller, your firewall, cyber defence will be thinner against their attacks.
We offer something a little different compared to other cyber awareness training courses.
We implement a fake phishing campaign. Harmless emails to be sent out to all your staff across the business to see if anybody clicks.
Afterwards, we show short, practical, follow-up videos on how that particular trick works and what to watch for. We also want to emphasise that we will not name and shame those who clicked. This is a learning opportunity for everybody involved.
We then follow up with questionnaires.
The difference in our teaching lies in experiencing a phishing campaign rather than coaching them through it. People learn from demonstration, and workers also learn from their mistakes.
If a successful attack does penetrate your cyber defences, it doesn’t just cause a bad day for IT. It wastes time and money, which in turn affects your company’s efficiency output.
This is made even worse when you consider the hit on the reputation of your business. Clients trust you with their data and records, a breach in your cyber defences will simply do lasting harm to a reputation that took years to earn.
So when weighing up if whether cyber awareness training is worth the expense.
Businesses are always at risk of a cyber breach, it comes with the digital landscape today.
A monitored security setup, the kind a SOC and SIEM service provides, watches for the threats that slip past human judgement and flags unusual activity before it spreads.
If you’re not sure what those terms mean, our plain-English guide to SOC and SIEM breaks it down. Training sharpens your first line of defence. Monitoring backs it up.
If you’d like to see how a phishing simulation campaign would look across your team, get in touch with HDUK and we’ll talk you through it.
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