User Awareness and Education
Understand the importance of user awareness in cybersecurity by learning how social engineering exploits trust and fear. Explore methods to educate employees on identifying phishing attempts and the value of ongoing security training to strengthen organizational protection.
Overview
Users are on the front line of protecting an organization. It’s often not by technical means that an attacker illicitly gains sensitive info, access to systems, and footholds on a protected network. They instead rely on the age-old method of social engineering , where the user is tricked into performing an action. The user is manipulated, often by exploiting trust and fear so that they don’t think before acting. Our goal is to get users to think first, especially when it comes to:
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