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“Home Alone”: Click Armor Launches Gamified Cyber Security Awareness Training for Remote Workforces
Solution helps remote workers protect business and personal information from attacks
Why security awareness training is different from task-based training
If you’ve ever taken a security awareness training course, aside from a phishing assessment that tests your skill at avoiding email attacks, you may not have noticed something that’s really pretty obvious. Security awareness training is typically delivered using a...
The pitfalls of compliance-based security awareness training
What I call Off-the-shelf “compliance-focused” security awareness programs are designed to be a “one-size-fits all” solution that is quick to deploy to all staff. However, the problem I often see with these solutions is that they usually include content that is...
Top 3 reasons why employees need security awareness training more than once a year
Many people ask, “Why do employees need security awareness training more than once a year?” In this 2 minute video, Scott Wright explains the top 3 reasons why annual awareness training is a waste of time and money.
Can I Be Phished? Episode 2 – Unboxing an “Imminent Expiry” phishing message
In our second episode of Can I Be Phished? we welcome Dave Ockwell-Jenner, the VP of Information Security at Arctic Wolf. Dave helps me unbox another phishing message that is warning me that my online banking service will expire soon. NOTE: Due to the visual nature of...
Click Armor Announces Game-based Social Engineering Awareness Training
Solution helps organizations prevent social engineering attacks which can lead to costly data breaches
The phone scam that should cause you to have reservations about your reservations
Caller ID is not a reliable method of authentication when scammers can spoof any number they like. People with reservations for High Tea at The Ritz discovered this as a result of an attack that exploited information about their reservations.
One ransomware infection impacted many operational services at Garmin
On July 23, 2020, a ransomware infection struck Garmin, the electronics company that produces fitness trackers, GPS traffic navigation systems and aircraft avionics and information systems. The malware locked up its fitness tracking services and customer service...
How did teenagers access Twitter’s user admin tools with a few hours of social engineering?
With the high profile social engineering hack of Twitter, it’s a good time to review why employees are so vulnerable, and what can be done about it.
Announcing the “Can I Be Phished?” podcast – unboxing the most common attacks!
Click Armor is proud to announce that we have published our first episode of the "Can I Be Phished?" podcast, where we take a closer look at some of the most common and dangerous phishing attacks and scams. The podcast is available on Youtube for video and on popular...
Can we stop saying “Security is everybody’s business” now?
Spoiler: Sorry. These days, it’s becoming increasingly clear that security is becoming an even bigger part of “everybody’s business”. People instinctively feel their productivity is hindered by security IT’s always been easy to blame the IT organization’s security...
How MSPs can overcome common objections from their customer base, to implement continuous cybersecurity awareness
Managed Service Providers (MSPs) that deliver IT services to small and medium-sized businesses have a real dilemma when it comes to security awareness training. According to a forum post I read recently, the vast majority of MSPs believe that it is valuable, if not...
Shared Security Podcast celebrates its 100th episode
It has been my pleasure to have co-hosted 100 episodes of the Shared Security Podcast with Tom Eston. We have been practicing social distancing religiously for over 10 years. In fact, we have never met in person. Tom and I were brought together by the early...
What should you do when you receive a Microsoft Office document has Macros in it?
On May 18, 2020, Microsoft issued a warning about a massive phishing attack that uses a spreadsheet attachment that claims to have information about COVID-19 deaths. Unfortunately, the attachment contains a macro that tries to install a remote access tool if you allow...
What can be done about phishing and social engineering scams that impersonate your organization?
There is one thing about phishing and social engineering scams against customers or external partners that impersonate your organization, which makes them impossible to detect with technology…
