An Introduction to Security Awareness Training (SAT)
Information Security Awareness Training is a strategy used to improve staff awareness, prevent, and mitigate user risk within your organisation while also helping employees understand their roles and responsibilities in combatting information security breaches.
Through continual and successful training, staff will hold a better understanding regarding cyber hygiene, the security risks associated with their actions, and be better equipped to identify cyber-attacks they may encounter via email and the web.
Information Security Awareness Training Involves:
Phishing Awareness
Teaching employees how to recognise, avoid, and deal with potential social engineering attacks from phishing emails
Office hygiene
Helping employees understand the best way to protect paper, desks, screens, and buildings and minimise risk
Instructions on how to protect the sensitive data of customers, partners, employees, and the company.
Instructing employees how to recognise threats that may come from inside the organisation, how to deal with insider threats and how to manage access control. This can ensure the integrity of customer data within the CIA triad
CEO/Wire fraud
Showing employees how attackers may impersonate a C-level executive to defraud the company of thousands of pounds
Data in motion
Helping employees understand how vulnerable data in motion is and how they can protect it.
Why your employees need Security Awareness Training?
- Research suggests that human error is involved in more than 90% of security breaches. Therefore, it is extremely important that your organisation is doing everything it can to minimise risk thus preventing the loss of assets, suppliers, financial strength, or brand reputation.
- By taking the necessary actions and improving staff competence, stakeholders will have a better customer experience as they are less likely of becoming a victim due to your poor information management practises. Furthermore, higher staff competence will lead to employees feeling more valued within your organisation as their skills, qualifications, certifications, and awareness are all being strengthened.
- Training can specifically address common cyber mistakes your employees make and eliminate the risks associated therefore maintaining the
confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your data.
- Due to Covid-19, and the resulting lockdown and restrictions, employees working remotely is now a more common practise within the business landscape. Due to this, businesses are facing more vulnerabilities than ever due to each employee having different working environments.
- Information Security Awareness Training can provide peace of mind to high-level staff as staff will understand how to identify vulnerabilities within their working space and how to avoid them.
- Many organisations are ditching high-street premises and operating online is becoming the norm - it’s harder than ever for employees to verify sources over the phone, online and through email communication.
How long does it take to build a security awareness training program?
The time required to build a security awareness training program depends on the technology and methodology you choose. With JC Cyber Security and our Hut Six online platform, training can be deployed and configured quickly, rolling out awareness training to a global workforce easily.
We recommend training your employees at least once a year with security awareness training, and then reinforcing training with monthly awareness campaigns and quarterly phishing campaigns. Continuous programs like this are not exhaustive but keep security awareness front of mind for you and your business.
How much does a Security Awareness Training Program cost?
The cost of an effective security awareness training program will vary depending on the size of your organisation. Both small to mid-sized businesses and global enterprise organisations can implement our Hut Six Training & Awareness programmes for a fraction of what a successful cyber breach costs a company in revenue losses.
If you’d like us to quote how much a Security Awareness Training Programme would cost your organisation
Contact Us and one of our Cyber Security Experts will be happy to provide an accurate quote.
How Phishing Simulations can provide a baseline
Testing your employees with phishing simulations is an important part of your overall Information Security Awareness Program. You can run targeted Phishing campaigns to test current staff awareness/competence with minimal risk by:
- Using real-life de-weaponised attacks such as phony promotions and package tracking to fake news and password resets due to unauthorised logins.
- Specifying which employees will receive your phishing emails allowing you to test different phishing simulated emails against different departments.
How Phishing Simulations work
First, your organisation will need to make a decision regarding who is responsible for the simulaton. The best method would be to book a consultation with JC Cyber Security Services to determine your requirements and goals of the phishing simulation(s).
After a consultation with us, we design and develop a targeted phishing campaign that simulates a phishing attack vector against your employees and assets. The actual vector deployed will be agreed after a scoping discussion and will be carefully designed in a non-destructive way that target employees of your choice.
After the simulation has been performed, we will measure and interpret the results to provide trend analysis, highlight problem areas and recommend solutions.
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