Cybersecurity Awareness Resources
75% of Data Breaches Involve: Human Error, Social Engineering, and Use of Stolen Credentials.
Verizon's annual Data Breach report released June 6th, 2023
Tips to Support Cybersecurity Awareness Programs
CONTINUOUSLY TRAIN
Go Beyond Compliance
CONTINUOUSLY TRAIN
Provide staff ongoing cybersecurity "Headliner" current events such as data breaches, cyber-crime, hacking and trends as an opportunity to reiterate and teach cybersecurity safeguards and develop Human Firewalls.
Anywhere Awareness
Go Beyond Compliance
CONTINUOUSLY TRAIN
Provide access to relevant on-demand cybersecurity educational material, create custom training programs for high-risk staff, and reduce personal and corporate risk levels by providing regular reminders of the ongoing cyber threat landscape and risk reducing practices.
Go Beyond Compliance
Go Beyond Compliance
Go Beyond Compliance
Organizations need to be diligent in ensuring that their employees are aware of the latest security threats and how to protect sensitive information. Remind staff a failure to comply with regulations can result in penalties, fines, and even legal action.
Employee Cybersecurity Training Basics
Cybersecurity Threats and Attacks
Leverage our Cyber Awareness training to improve exposure to cybersecurity concepts, terminology, and activities associated with implementing cybersecurity best practices.
Prepare for the next wave of attacks such as:
⚠️ Email Phishing
⚠️ Smishing (SMS Phishing)
⚠️ Executive Spear Phishing
and many more attack vectors...
Our training compliance program provides ongoing staff cybersecurity awareness development utilizing current cybersecurity news events, informative “best practice” tips and on-demand access to security educational material.
Cybersecurity For New Hires
Onboarding Security Training: Beware Social Update Attacks!
Riskigy's new hire onboarding cybersecurity awareness training helps new employees understand the organization’s security requirements, risks and protocols before they gain access to sensitive systems.
Here are some tips to help new employees navigate this vulnerable time:
✅ Educate employees on how to recognize and avoid phishing emails and other social engineering attacks, such as phone scams and impersonation attempts.
✅ Instruct employees on how to report suspected security incidents, such as phishing attempts, data breaches, or lost devices. Provide clear channels for reporting and encourage employees to report any security concerns promptly.
✅ Explain the risks posed by malware, including ransomware, and teach employees how to recognize and avoid malicious attachments, links, and websites.
HR teams can include our cybersecurity awareness training with new hire onboarding, but it’s also something to consider for all staff to help improve overall security awareness for the entire organization.
Cybersecurity Training for Accounting & Finance Teams
Payment Phishing Scam Awareness Can Save Time and Money!
Payment phishing scams are cleaning out bank accounts of businesses! Attackers are successfully deceiving individuals and businesses into providing sensitive information such as credit card or bank account numbers.
Recently reported payment phishing scams are utilizing:
⚠️ Attackers use email Sender display name impersonation using a well-known brand or service provider.
⚠️ Email subject lines conveying a sense of urgency such as “Action Required” or “Final Notice” or “Overdue”.
⚠️ Messages contain legitimate company branding to further the scams chance of success and bypassing security training practices.
🚨Payment Phishing scams can also occur through other methods like vishing (voice phishing over the phone) and smishing (phishing through SMS text messages).🚨
✅ It's crucial to stay alert about potential phishing threats and always double-check the correspondence you receive.
Generative a.I. (GenAI) Cybersecurity Awareness
Emerging Generative AI Malware and Phishing Attacks
Generative AI tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT and the Google Bard language LLM's models have revolutionized content generation, but their capabilities have also attracted cybercriminals. In our latest knowledge sharing post we discuss how GenAI has provided cybercriminals with powerful tools to conduct sophisticated phishing and malware campaigns.
⚠️ Organizations must stay vigilant and invest in security awareness training to mitigate these risks.
⚠️ Users should remain cautious as they explore trends in technology and GenAI.
⚠️ Mitigate the risk of GenAI exploitation with a multi-faceted approach that combines technological solutions, employee training, and policy development.
Social Engineering Scareware Scams
How to identify Social Engineering Scareware attacks
As a type of social engineering attack, scareware relies on the manipulation of the weakest link of cybersecurity, people. Scareware attackers uses aggressive and persistent tactics to manipulate users to believe they have a serious problem with their device, or a compromised account.
Scareware can be very profitable for attackers because they often charge high fees for their fake software or services or steal valuable personal and financial information. The most effective way to mitigate the risk of scareware is to conduct routine awareness training for employees.
Use Riskigy Cybersecurity & Tech Advisors newsletters and alerts to keep employees aware of current cybersecurity threats.
Learn how to identify scareware share your knowledge with colleagues, friends and family to be #cyberaware #cybersmart
How to Stay Cyber Safe During Travels
Staying Cyber Secure during Business and Vacation Travel
Cybercriminals do not take holidays and they are working extra hard to catch victims when they let their guard down on vacation or during business travel.
This Riskigy cybersecurity awareness training video highlights the threats and practices to stay secure when traveling.
✅ Avoid connecting to public Wi-Fi networks. If you need to use it, connect with a trustworthy VPN.
✅ Wait until you can access a secure network to carry out important transactions.
✅ If you have a cellular connection, use your phone as a personal hotspot instead of connecting to public networks.
✅ Look for the lock symbol or “https” in the address bar to the left of the website’s URL to make sure your connection is encrypted.....and much more!
How to Defend Against Pretexting Attacks!
Tips to identify Pretexting Attacks at Home and Work
The Riskigy cybersecurity experts know Pretexting attacks can be challenging to identify as they rely on manipulation and deception. There are certain signs and precautions you can take to identify and protect yourself from pretexting attacks.
⚠️ Hackers use pretexting as a technique in social engineering attacks to manipulate individuals and gain unauthorized access to sensitive information or systems. They employ various strategies to deceive their victims and create a sense of trust and credibility.
⚠️ Pretexting attacks can be challenging to identify as they rely on psychological manipulation and deception. However, there are certain signs and precautions you can take to identify and protect yourself from pretexting attacks.
Our cybersecurity awareness training video provides tips and precautions for being skeptical, helping prevent falling victim to pretexting attacks.
Hacked Account Recovery and Protection
Awareness and tips to identify a hacked account and recover.
No matter if it's your email, a social media account, or your financial accounts, losing access to an online account can be nerve-racking.
By compromising an email account, hackers can potentially access personal and financial information, such as login credentials, bank statements, and even social security numbers. This information can be used for various malicious purposes, including identity theft, financial fraud, or even blackmail.
This video summarizes why your accounts get hacked, what you can do to minimize the damage, and how you can protect access to your accounts.
⚠️ How to tell if an account got Hacked
⚠️ How do accounts get Hacked
⚠️ What to do if your account gets Hacked
Hackers target email and social media accounts for several reasons. One major motive is to gain unauthorized access to sensitive information and personal data.
Our cybersecurity awareness training video provides tips and precautions for being skeptical, helping prevent falling victim to cyber attacks.
Protecting Yourself from Callback Phishing Attacks
Tips to identify Callback Phishing Attacks at Home and Work
Callback phishing can bypass various email security measures, including email spam filters, as it does not contain hyperlinks or attachments often used by other phishing attacks. Another reason for its success is the lack of awareness among individuals and organizations. Callback phishing is a relatively new technique in the realm of phishing attacks, and many individuals and organizations have not taken appropriate measures to protect themselves against it.
⚠️ What is Callback Phishing?
⚠️ How to Identify a Callback Attack
⚠️ Who is Behind Callback Phishing?
Callback phishing poses a low risk of detection, is cheap to execute, and can generate results quickly, making it a way for even amateur ransomware groups to gain initial access to the networks of target organizations.
Our cybersecurity awareness training video provides tips and precautions for being skeptical, helping prevent falling victim to cyber attacks.
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Need Help with Custom Staff Training?
To stay secure, Riskigy provides proactive and custom tips and job specific training that employees can take to keep sensitive information safe and protect your organization.
Employee cybersecurity awareness training and phishing simulation training can be effective if implemented frequently, which includes identifying high-risk employees and engaging repeat offenders, adapting to new methods of creating phishing emails, and deploying phishing tests in the same type of working environment in which employees regularly operate.
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