Understand what is security awareness and how Mimecast's engaging security awareness training for employees can improve security posture.
Security awareness is a critical priority for CISOs in every organization. With human error contributing to more than 90% of security breaches and the average breach costing nearly $4 million to remediate, it's no wonder that organizations have invested heavily in security awareness training for employees.
Yet despite this effort, organizations today are even more likely to be attacked than they were just a few years ago. Which begs the question, is information security awareness training ineffective? If so, why? What is security awareness training failing to do?
This short introduction to IT security awareness is designed to answer these questions and introduce a new kind of online security awareness training from Mimecast.
What is security awareness?
Security awareness is a measure of employees' understanding of the threats that face their organization, how their behavior can help to mitigate threats, and how their mistakes and careless actions may lead to a security breach.
What is security awareness training?
Security awareness training is an educational program designed to improve employees' knowledge of security threats and the best practices that can help to avoid or prevent them.
What is security awareness training designed to do?
A security awareness training program is designed to familiarize employees with the nature of threats they may encounter in the workplace – how the threats work and how they may appear to an employee. Security awareness training also provides instruction on how to deal with threats as well as best practices for keeping themselves and the organization secure.
Why is traditional security awareness training ineffective?
At Mimecast, we believe traditional security awareness training misses the mark for three reasons:
What is Mimecast security awareness training?
Mimecast Awareness Training is a training and risk management platform that helps organizations successfully combat human error. As a cloud-based solution, Mimecast security awareness training can be quickly and easily rolled out to employees anywhere in the world. Easily managed from a single console, Mimecast Awareness Training seamlessly integrates with Mimecast's solutions for web security, email security and information archiving to provide a comprehensive approach to enhancing cybersecurity.
How is Mimecast security awareness training different?
Mimecast Awareness Training offers a different approach to security awareness training.
What is the impact on security awareness of Mimecast Awareness Training?
Mimecast Awareness Training can help organizations improve security awareness on a wide variety of topics by as much as 400%.
More Knowledge: Awareness Before and After Training | |||
THE TOPIC | BEFORE | AFTER | GAIN |
Phishing | 33.0% | 81.2% | 246% |
BYOD | 28.1% | 86.6% | 308% |
Social Media | 37.7% | 80.1% | 212% |
Passwords | 12.5% | 54.6% | 437% |
Inadvertent Disclosure | 18.6% | 78.4% | 421% |
Insider Threat | 17.8% | 62.6% | 345% |
Shadow IT | 26.7% | 53.9% | 202% |
Storage Devices | 34.5% | 88.2% | 256% |
Reporting Threats | 17.8% | 62.6% | 345% |
Tailgating | 27.9% | 67.2% | 241% |