Why Does Your Business Need New-School Security Awareness Training?

Ransomware, CEO Fraud, Compliance, Phishing, and other exploits that hackers use are why your business needs New-School Security Awareness Training.

Cybercrime is moving at light speed.  A few years ago, cybercriminals used to specialize in identity theft, but now they are trying to take over your organization’s network, hack into your bank accounts, and steal tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Did you know that over 90% of all cyber attacks originate with an end user who, unaware of the risk, clicks on a malicious link, or opens a malicious attachment in an e-mail? In other words, your employees represent your largest risk for cyber attacks, by a factor of 10 to 1.

Every small and medium organization is at risk. Your users are your last line of defense. They need to be trained and remain on their toes with security top of mind.

What’s Wrong With Every-Day Security Awareness Training?

Old-School Security Awareness Training doesn’t hack it anymore (no pun intended). Today, your employees are frequently exposed to sophisticated and ever-changing phishing and ransomware attack methods.

Old-School Security Awareness Training is static. It’s a one-time event without follow-up. You need cybersecurity training, that is backed up with phishing tests, performed on a regular basis in order to really create a change in behavior.

What Is New-School Security Awareness Training?

More than ever, your users are the weak link in your network security. You need highly effective and frequent cybersecurity training, along with random Phishing Security Tests that provide several remedial options in case an employee falls for a simulated phishing attack.

With Discovery I.T.’s world-class, user-friendly New-School Security Awareness Training, you’ll have training self-service enrollment, training completion logs, and both pre-and post-training phishing security tests that show you who is/isn’t completing prescribed training, as well as the percentage of your end users that are Phish-prone.

And with our end-user training interface, your users get a fresh new learner experience that makes learning fun and engaging. It has optional customization features to enable “gamification” of training, so your users can compete against their peers on leaderboards and earn badges while learning how to keep your organization safe from cyber attacks.

With Discovery I.T.’s New-School Security Awareness Training You’ll…

Have Baseline Testing: We provide baseline testing to assess the Phish-prone percentage of your users through a free simulated phishing attack.

Train Your Users with the world’s largest library of security awareness training content; including interactive modules, videos, games, posters and newsletters, and automated training campaigns with scheduled reminder emails.

Phish Your Users with best-in-class, fully automated simulated phishing attacks, and thousands of templates with unlimited usage, and community phishing templates.

See The Results with enterprise-strength reporting that show stats and graphs for both training and phishing, all ready for your management.

And Discovery I.T.’s New-School Training…

• Sends Phishing Security Tests to your users and get your Phish-prone percentage.
• Rolls out Training Campaigns for all users (or groups) with automated follow-up emails to “nudge” incomplete users, as well as point-of-failure training auto-enrollment.
• Uses Advanced Reporting to monitor your users’ training progress, and to watch your Phish-prone percentage drop.
• Provides a New Exploit Functionality that allows an internal, fully automated human penetration testing.
• Includes a New USB Drive Test that allows you to test your users’ reactions to unknown USBs found.

Plus, you can access Training Access Levels: I, II, and III giving you access to an “always-fresh” content library based on your subscription level. You’ll get web-based, on-demand, engaging training that addresses the needs of your organization whether you have 50, 500 or 5,000 users.

Can We Use Discovery I.T.’s New-School Security Awareness Training Along With Our Corporate Training?

This is what many businesses are doing. They are supplementing their current training content with our New-School Security Awareness Training. Upload your own compliant-training and video content, and manage it alongside your other training all in one place. Now you have your very own Learning Management System.

Can We Customize Our Training?

Many businesses and even IT managers don’t know where to start when it comes to creating a security awareness program that will work for their organization. We’ve taken away all the guesswork with our Automated Security Awareness Program (ASAP).

ASAP allows you to create a customized program for your organization that helps you implement all the steps to create a complete security awareness training program in just a few minutes!

What About Reporting?

With the new Virtual Risk Officer and Advanced Reporting features, you can start to identify risks at the user, group, and organizational levels to help you make data-driven decisions when it comes to your security awareness plan.

You’ll have next-level-reporting for phishing and training campaigns that help you measure the effectiveness of your security awareness training program.

 

Is Discovery I.T.’s New-School Security Awareness Easy To Manage?

Yes, you can easily…

Automate the path your employees take to smarter security decisions. With the powerful new Smart Groups feature, you can use each employees’ behavior, and user attributes to tailor phishing campaigns, training assignments, remedial learning and reporting.

Use “Set-it-and-Forget-it” phishing and training campaigns that let you instantly respond to any phishing clicks with remedial training or have new employees automatically notified of onboarding training, and much more.

Schedule regular Phishing Security Tests from our large library of more than 2,500 “known-to-work” templates, and choose from the community templates section which was created by admins for admins to share with their peers. You can also create your own custom phishing templates.

Use new Industry Benchmarking features to compare your organization’s Phish-prone percentage with other companies in your industry.

Monitor your employee phish-prone percentages over time and watch how performance from your initial baseline phishing test after 90 days and 1-year compares.

Benefit from Phishing Reply Tracking to track if a user replies to a simulated phishing email and capture the information sent in the reply. You can also track links clicked by users as well as test and track if users are opening Office attachments and then enabling macros.

See how your Human Firewall improves over time with regular testing to reduce risk and improve your IT security defense. You’ll have real-time stats that help you keep a pulse on how your security awareness program and employees stack up against other companies in your industry.

What If Users Fail The Testing?

In case an employee falls for one of these simulated phishing attacks, you have several options for correction, including instant remedial online training.

You can schedule one-shot, weekly, bi-weekly or monthly simulated phishing attacks and immediately see which employees fall for these social engineering attacks.

In addition, with our Phish Alert Button, you can reinforce your organization’s security culture. Your users can report suspicious emails with one click.

• When the user clicks the Phish Alert button on a simulated phishing email, it’s reported in the Admin Console.
• Incident Response gets early phishing alerts from users, creating a network of “sensors.”
• Your employee gets instant feedback, which reinforces their training.
• They can even do this on Microsoft Outlook Mobile.

Can Discovery I.T. Set Up New-School Security Awareness Training And Manage It For Us?

Yes…that’s why we’re here. As your IT services company, we can handle all of this for you.

Don’t Be The Next Cyber-Heist Victim

Changing employee behavior to be less susceptible to social engineering requires a consistent and repeatable approach to security education. Security awareness training done right engages users and moves their natural “reflexes” from being unaware to being proactive and competent in identifying potentially hazardous social engineering tactics.

Rolling out a realistic security awareness training program will empower your users to protect themselves and be part of the solution in fortifying your organization’s last layer of security.