Cybersecurity Awareness

Overview

The human factor in today’s Cybersecurity landscape is one of the most vulnerable attack surfaces an organization has. Often the users are unaware of the internet dangers and get tricked by social engineering to click on a malicious link in a spear-phishing email or open an email attachment they did not ask for. Employees have a false sense of security and believe their anti-virus has them covered. Further unfortunately, could be from the truth. About 7-10% of spam emails manage to slip through filters. Surprisingly often backups turn out not to work or it takes days to fully restore a system. In today’s landscape, the last line of defense is the employees and they need appropriate training to be able to do so.

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Continuous Cybersecurity Awareness Training

At Brandvakt, we recognize its people who are the critical layer and last line of defense in security programs deployed by enterprises. Without the appropriate awareness training and constant updates and reminders – security problems easily occur caused by the human factor.

Brandvakt partners with industry leading KnowBe4 to provide cybersecurity awareness training. KnowBe4 is the world’s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform and along with a properly devised Cybersecurity Awareness program, we can mitigate the ongoing problem of social engineering and basic cybersecurity needs. KnowBe4 has been named leader in the Forrester Wave for Security Awareness and Training Solutions.

Continuous Cybersecurity Awareness Training

Baseline Testing

We provide baseline testing to assess how prone your organization is to phishing attacks.

Phish Your Users

Best-in-class, fully automated simulated phishing attacks with thousands of templates.

Train Your Users

THe worlds largest library of security awareness training content via our partner KnowBe4; including interactive modules, videos, games, posters and newsletters. Automated training campaigns with scheduled reminder emails.

See the Results

Enterprise-strenght reporting, showing stats and graphs for both security awareness training and phishing, ready for management to illustrate great ROI. 

Develop a Fully Mature Awareness Program

  • Awareness Training on its own, typically once a year, is far from enough. 
  • Simulated phishing tests of groups of employees doesn’t work on its own either. 
  • But together, done frequently, and reinforcing each other, they can be combined to greatly increase effectiveness.

Brandvakt will design an annual and risk oriented security awareness program based on the result of phishing exercises and the most common training topics utilizing best practices and knowhow from the KnowBe4 platform

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Train everyone

In order to create a security culture and change the behavior of your employees, you have to train everyone, from the boardroom to the lunchroom, and include the training in the onboarding of every new employee. 

  • This should be on-demand, interactive, engaging and create a thorough understanding of how cybercriminals operate.

Employees need to understand the mechanisms of: 

  • Spam 
  • Phishing 
  • Spear phishing 
  • Malware 
  • Ransomware 
  • Social engineering 

And be able to apply this in their day-to-day job.

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Baseline Phishing Test

  • Security awareness training can be undermined due to difficulty in measuring its impact. “You can’t manage what you don’t measure ” 
  • It is vital to establish a baseline on phishing click -through rates. This is easily accomplished by sending out a simulated phishing email to a random sample of personnel. 
  • You find out the number that is tricked into clicking. This is your baseline “Phish -prone percentage” that you use as the catalyst to kickoff your training campaign.

Virtual Risk Officer™ 

  • Identify risk at the user, group, and organizational level to enable you to make data -driven decisions for your security awareness plan. 
  • With Virtual Risk Officer’s Risk Score, answer questions like: • What users are the most vulnerable to a phishing attack? 
  • What groups haven’t had any training? 
  • What types of phishing templates are my users most prone to clicking? 
  • What are my highest -risk groups? 
  • Risk Score enables you to take action and implement security awareness mitigation plans for high -risk user groups

Continue to Test Employees Regularly

Even when testing confirms that phishing susceptibility has fallen to nominal levels, continue to test employees frequently to keep them on their toes, with security top of mind.

  • The bad guys are always changing the rules, adjusting their tactics and upgrading their technologies.
  • Analyze your phishing data. Continue to train and phish your users with more advanced tactics such as attachments and landing pages where they are asked to enter data. 
  • Over time, increasing the difficulty of the attacks, KnowBe4 has 8,000+ templates rated by difficulty from 1 to 5.