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How to Design Cybersecurity Training for Employees: 4 Best Practices

Absorb LMS

Creating an effective cybersecurity training program is required for regulatory compliance. Humans are less predictable than the technology your organization uses to prevent cybercrime, like firewalls. The most effective cybersecurity L&D initiatives go beyond annual compliance training requirements.

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BEWARE THIS GAMIFICATION PITFALL

Learnnovators

Let’s take a look at a couple of good examples that use stories as such: For a gamified learning experience on IT security, an artificial infosec breach is created within the organization’s firewall. In such a case, it can have the exact opposite effect of what you intended. This is the kind of load that we want to avoid.

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Protecting Your Digital Fort: Common Network Security Threats and How to Mitigate Them

Insightworks

To safeguard your digital presence, it's essential to be aware of common network security threats and how to mitigate them effectively. To defend against DDoS attacks: Employ a DDoS protection service or firewall. Monitor network activity for unusual behavior. Configure your network to filter and block malicious traffic.

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Four Principles for Effective Training Systems

Interactive Services

In other words, this was a failure of effective training. Effective training programs are becoming more important to business operations. First let’s look at four traits of an effective training program. These were human errors, where employees were not sufficiently skeptical about requests to send money. Control Over Content.

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Piecing together collaboration and cooperation

Clark Quinn

In this depiction,we see behaviors of effective collaboration within work groups, such as coaching each other, using good practices for brainstorming, the elements of a learning organization, being willing to admit to problems, and being willing to lose if you don’t lose the lesson.

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How to make compliance training interesting for employees?

Creativ Technologies

For example, to elaborate on the importance of using credentials, it can be stated that any computer can’t be easily hacked when it has the credentials and firewalls. It’s easier to make an employee remember when he has read a personal anecdote either illustrated through a video or a podcast about noncompliance effects.

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The importance of general cyber security awareness

OpenSesame

Back when everyone still worked from an office, locked-down office networks and an on-site IT team could be counted on to bolster the organizational firewall. Network protection. Home networks, on the other hand, throw an extra wild card into the mix. Web browsing.