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Security Awareness

Thinking on cybersecurity, compliance, and managed defence - from the CyberCheck team.

Security Awareness Training That Employees Do Not Tune Out

Security Awareness Training That Employees Do Not Tune Out

Security awareness training has a reputation problem – many employees experience it as a boring, easily forgotten annual obligation rather than useful, actionable guidance, undermining the very real security value effective awareness training could otherwise provide across an organization. Why Traditional Awareness Training Fails to Land Annual, lengthy, generic security awareness training sessions struggle to … Read more

Social Engineering: Why Technical Defenses Are Not Enough

Continuous Compliance Monitoring: Moving Beyond the Annual Audit

Organizations invest heavily in technical security controls – firewalls, intrusion detection, endpoint protection – while social engineering attacks continue succeeding at a remarkable, persistent rate, bypassing all of that technical investment entirely by targeting people directly instead of any technical system. Understanding why social engineering remains so effective clarifies why technical defenses alone can never … Read more