When was the last time your staff took part in any security awareness training? According to a poll which we recently posted on LinkedIn close to 40% have never taken any formalised training at all. Another 38% only took part once a year. That’s pretty concerning considering how quickly scams and threats evolve these days.
Security Awareness and Training (SAT) is an ongoing process which is frequently put in the “too hard” basket for many organisations. It’s difficult to implement cybersecurity training as it’s rarely engaging, it’s hard to keep up with current trends and it’s usually not accompanied by an 80’s montage soundtrack sung by Kenny Loggins. We can’t help on that last one, but we can help implement and maintain a solid SAT process for your staff.
Regularly scheduled and structured education for cyber security awareness is paramount to a decent security maturity posture. That’s a bit of word salad that roughly translates to “you should be testing yourself and your staff frequently on security processes“. It should be ingrained like a sixth sense so that when these threats appear your staff are on alert. The best way to do this is to keep those muscles trained via active engagement and training. Remember how suspicious we were of clicking links when RickRolling was a thing? Messages received via business communication methods should be treated with the same scrutiny.
How does an SAT work?
- Choose your education content (either from preconfigured content or customise your own)
- Choose your audience
- Choose your education methods including webinars, video content, quizzes & testing emails
- Set your recurring education schedule
- Review results and refine as required
The overall objective of a SAT program is to keep your employees and organisation secure. At their core, SAT programs are designed to help you:
- Teach employees to spot cyber threats like phishing, social engineering, and ransomware
- Minimize your organisation’s exposure to cyber threats
- Maintain regulatory compliance with cyber insurance stipulations
A properly implemented SAT ensures that everyone in a company can spot and handle cyber threats like dark hoodie wearing, energy drink ingesting, EDM loving cyber sleuths. SAT’s use fun, story-driven lessons that stick with you, so you’re not just sitting through another boring lecture. What’s cool is they throw in real-life phishing tests—kind of like practice runs—designed by security experts, so you get a taste of what actual threats look like without the risk.
Junius SAT keeps track of everybody’s progress within their training curriculum, so you can see what’s working and what’s not. Plus, if you need something special for your team, you can customize the content to fit just right. Got a specific process that you want to standardise such as an internal social media policy or evacuation training? We can add it into the SAT!
If staying on top of legal stuff like PCI-DSS or ISO-27001 is your jam, we have specific modules for those too, making it easier to make sure your team knows what’s up when it comes to compliance.
Junius SAT is about learning how to defend against cyber threats in a way that’s actually engaging and practical, and they handle most of the heavy lifting so you can focus on the day-to-day stuff.
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