As such, end-users must be taught not only how to recognize social engineering and phishing threats, but also how to treat them, report them and ensure their colleagues aren’t falling foul to them.

A skilled team of professionals and the right security technologies are undoubtedly important to securing your organization, but your first line of defense against cybercrime is always your employees.

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As threat actors continue to evolve, so does the tooling that protects a firm's environment. In addition to training, security advisories should be distributed on a regular basis, and security ...

When it comes to cybersecurity, there’s so much emphasis centered on technology—keeping networks, devices and IT environments safe—that organizations often forget hackers aren’t always targeting ...

At the Security Awareness Summit this August in San Francisco, a video clip was shown that highlights the need to develop holistic security awareness. The segment showed an employee being interviewed ...

The holiday season is the most wonderful time of the year for cybercriminals. Threat adversaries inevitably have more opportunities to carry out targeted attacks as more people are online shopping and ...

Roy Zur is the founder and CEO of ThriveDX Enterprise: a leading end-to-end human factor cybersecurity solutions provider. I believe the key to reducing these threats is improving security awareness ...

There’s an old adage in cybersecurity that humans are the weakest link in the security chain. That’s increasingly true, as threat actors compete to exploit credulous or careless employees. But it’s ...

Today Security and IT decision makers have a wide variety of security issues to manage, with email security at the top of the list. As threat actors evolve their attack methods to target your ...

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is expanding its ChemLock program with a new Security Awareness Training course designed to help employees at all levels understand their ...

When boiled down to its core, the objective of any good cybersecurity awareness program is quite simple: to help people make better risk decisions. That sounds great, but achieving it can be quite a ...