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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. Researchers at Oxford and the University of London define this as conveying the impact of personal behavior.

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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. An onboarding training program is set in a faraway galaxy where you need to destroy a bunch of aliens in order to move forward.

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The importance of general cyber security awareness

OpenSesame

However, the ubiquity of phishing threats and the amount of media coverage they get can overshadow other looming threats we should be looking out for, and that our information security programs should be covering. . Although phishing attacks are extremely common, there are other threats quickly catching up. Network protection.

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How to Be CyberSmart in a COVID-19 World

Avilar

Firewalls, networks, collaboration tools, and servers should all be configured to accept – and track – remote access. Do you provide firewalls and tech support for personal devices? By keeping the topic top of mind, you increase the chance that employees confidently follow CyberSmart behaviors. Engage device-level protection.

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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. The employee can lose his laptop while coming to the office, but because he had installed a program to detect the laptop, it was located. Diversity training.

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Digital nightmares: Haunting tales of Artificial Intelligence

TalentLMS

Tasked with protecting sensitive corporate data, a sinister bug had crept into its programming. With his colleagues oblivious to the unfolding digital catastrophe, Henry detects an anomaly within Frankie’s programming. He recognizes that the AI’s behavior was a far cry from its intended purpose of data protection. Who will win?

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Healthcare Data Security: Ensuring Privacy and Compliance in App Development

Hurix Digital

Employ Secure APIs in Healthcare App Development APIs, or Application Programming Interfaces, are used to communicate with other healthcare systems, such as Electronic Health Records (EHR). As the software becomes outdated, it becomes vulnerable to hackers due to its known vulnerabilities.

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