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Employee Training in Cyber Security: 4 Tips and Techniques

TOPYX LMS

One billion records were compromised worldwide in 2016 2 and a whopping 43 percent of cyber attacks targeted small businesses specifically. From these small businesses, 60 percent close their doors within half a year of a cyber attack. Of course, larger companies are also common targets of cyber attacks.

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Mobile App Trends for 2018

Origin Learning

Blockchain offers a high level of security and is designed to keep information decentralized to prevent easy hacking. From banking to insurance and education to digital rewards, and healthcare records various organizations are looking to cash in on the ease of using blockchain. The Year of the Blockchain.

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Cyber Security Training Programs: 4 Steps to Implementation

KMI Learning

companies and government agencies between 2015 and 2016 alone. Risk-Based Security reported over 2,200 data breaches in the first 6 months of 2017, representing the exposure of over 6 billion records. Cyber breaches come with a price tag. Recent estimates place the cost of the average cyber breach around $1.3 With a ‘B.’.

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Engage in Learning Launches Learning Materials to Help Prevent Card Fraud

Engage in Learning

per cent more than was spent in April 2016 - according to the UK’s Office for National Statistics. The worldwide PCI DSS - which aims to help prevent card fraud and enable organisations to process card payments securely - is the result of collaboration between the major credit card brands: American Express, Discover, JCB, Mastercard and Visa.

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LUC Recap: Concrete Strategies for Building Interactive Courses

Trivantis

Want to make your eLearning awesome and interactive? Erica Hunter and Penny Kurtz showed us some great tips at the 2016 Lectora® User Conference this year. They discussed using organized content, game-like activities, evaluations that don’t feel like tests, and applied scenarios and stories—simple ways to make courses interactive.

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What is Data Security Training and Why Do You Need It?

ProProfs

Many employers still don’t take data security training for employees seriously. Data is as secure as the people who have access to it , be it an IT team or regular employees. That’s why you need cyber security awareness training for employees to educate them on preventing data from loss, theft, modification, and destruction.

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Why Cybersecurity is an Every-Employee Initiative

Avilar

The Russian government and the 2016 presidential elections. And as more and more of our interactions move online, we increase our risk of falling victim to the next attack. And as more and more of our interactions move online, we increase our risk of falling victim to the next attack. In 2016, the U.S. Second was the U.K.,